awesome-sysadmin

sysadmin toolkit

A curated list of sysadmin tools and resources to support the management and administration of computer systems

A curated list of amazingly awesome open source sysadmin resources inspired by Awesome PHP.

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Awesome Sysadmin / Backups
Amanda			Client-server model backup tool
Attic			A deduplicating backup program written in Python
Bacula			Another Client-server model backup tool
Bareos			A fork of Bacula backup tool
Barman			Backup and Recovery Manager for disaster recovery of PostgreSQL servers
Backupninja			Lightweight, extensible meta-backup system
Backuppc			Client-server model backup tool with file pooling scheme
Brebis			A fully automated backup checker
Bup	7,154	almost 2 years ago	Incremental backups with rolling checksums, git packfiles, de-duplication, and a FUSE filesystem
Burp			Network backup and restore program
Duplicati			Multiple backends, encryption, web-ui and multi-OS backup tool
Duplicity			Encrypted bandwidth-efficient backup using the rsync algorithm
FreeFileSync			Folder comparison and synchronization tool
Lsyncd	5,772	almost 2 years ago	File Monitor which spawns a process to synchronize the changes (rsync by default)
restic	26,921	almost 2 years ago	Fast, secure, efficient backup program
Rsnapshot			Filesystem Snapshotting Utility
SafeKeep			Centralized pull-based backup using
Snebu			– Snapshot backup with global multi-client deduplication and transparent compression
UrBackup			Another client-server backup system
ZBackup			A versatile deduplicating backup tool
Backup	4,836	about 2 years ago	Provides an elegant DSL in Ruby for performing backups on UNIX-like systems
DREBS	34	almost 12 years ago	AWS EBS backup script that supports strategies
Awesome Sysadmin / Build Automation
Apache Ant			Automation build tool, similar to make, written in Java
Apache Maven			Build automation tool mainly for Java
GNU Make			The most popular automation build tool for many purposes
Gradle			Another open source build automation system
Awesome Sysadmin / ChatOps
CloudBot	273	over 2 years ago	The simple, fast, expandable, open-source Python IRC bot
Eggdrop			The world's most popular Open Source IRC bot, designed for flexibility and ease of use
Err			A plugin based chatbot designed to be easily deployable, extensible and maintainable
Hubot			A customizable, life embetterment robot
Lazlo	147	over 10 years ago	A chatops automation framework in Go
Lita			A robot companion for your company's chat room
KeyBase			Encrypted chat, cloud and git
Awesome Sysadmin / Cloning
Clonezilla			Partition and disk imaging/cloning program
Fog			Another computer cloning solution
Redo Backup			Easy Backup, Recovery and Restore
Awesome Sysadmin / Cloud Computing
AppScale			Open source cloud software with Google App Engine compatibility
Archipel			Manage and supervise virtual machines using Libvirt
CloudStack			Cloud computing software for creating, managing, and deploying infrastructure cloud services
Cobbler			Cobbler is a Linux installation server that allows for rapid setup of network installation environments
Eucalyptus			Open source private cloud software with AWS compatibility
Mesos			Develop and run resource-efficient distributed systems
OpenNebula			An user-driven cloud management platform for sysadmins and devops
Openshift Origin			Open source upstream of OpenShift, the next generation application hosting platform developed by Red Hat
OpenStack			Open source software for building private and public clouds
The Foreman			Foreman is a complete lifecycle management tool for physical and virtual servers. FOSS
Tsuru			Tsuru is an extensible and open source Platform as a Service software
Terraform			Terraform allows you to practice infrastructure as code and is commonly used for AWS/GCE
Awesome Sysadmin / Cloud Orchestration
BOSH			IaaS orchestration platform originally written for deploying and managing Cloud Foundry PaaS, but also useful for general purpose distributed systems
Ansible			Contains modules for controlling many types of cloud resources
Cloudify			Open source TOSCA-based cloud orchestration software platform written in Python and YAML
consul			It is a tool for discovering and configuring services in your infrastructure
doozerd	3,269	over 10 years ago	Doozer is a highly-available, completely consistent store for small amounts of extremely important data
etcd	48,056	almost 2 years ago	A highly-available key value store for shared configuration and service discovery
Juju			Cloud orchestration tool which manages services as charms, YAML configuration and deployment script bundles
MCollective			Ruby framework to manage server orchestration, developed by Puppet labs
Overcast			Deploy VMs across different cloud providers, and run commands and scripts across any or all of them in parallel via SSH
Rundeck			Simple orchestration tool
Salt			Fast, scalable and flexible systems management software written in Python/ZeroMQ
serf			Serf is a tool for cluster membership
StackStorm			Event Driven Operations and ChatOps platform for infrastructure management. Written in Python
zookeeper			ZooKeeper is a centralized service for maintaining configuration information, naming, providing distributed synchronization, and providing group services
Awesome Sysadmin / Cloud Storage
git-annex assistant			A synchronised folder on each of your OSX and Linux computers, Android devices, removable drives, NAS appliances, and cloud services
nextCloud			Provides access to your files via the web
ownCloud			Provides universal access to your files via the web, your computer or your mobile devices
Seafile			Another Open Source Cloud Storage solution
SparkleShare			Provides cloud storage and file synchronization services. By default, it uses Git as a storage backend
Swift			A highly available, distributed, eventually consistent object/blob store
Syncthing			Open Source system for private, encrypted and authenticated distribution of data
Awesome Sysadmin / Code Review
Gerrit			Based on the Git version control, it facilitates software developers to review modifications to the source code and approve or reject those changes
Phabricator			Code review tool build by facebook and used by WikiMedia, FB, dropbox etc. Comes with an integrated wiki, bug tracker, VC integration and a CLI tool called arcanist
Review Board			Web-based collaborative code review tool
Awesome Sysadmin / Collaborative Software
Citadel/UX			Collaboration suite (messaging and groupware) that is descended from the Citadel family of programs
EGroupware			Groupware software written in PHP
Horde Groupware			PHP based collaborative software suite that includes email, calendars, wikis, time tracking and file management
Kolab			Another groupware suite
SOGo			Collaborative software server with a focus on simplicity and scalability
Zimbra			Collaborative software suite, that includes an email server and web client
Awesome Sysadmin / Configuration Management Database
Clusto	291	over 5 years ago	Helps you keep track of your inventory, where it is, how it's connected, and provides an abstracted interface for interacting with the elements of the infrastructure
Collins			At Tumblr, it's the infrastructure source of truth and knowledge
i-doit			Open Source IT Documentation and CMDB
iTop			Complete open source, ITIL, web based service management tool
Ralph	2,259	almost 2 years ago	Asset management, DCIM and CMDB system for large Data Centers as well as smaller LAN networks
Sicekit	10	about 13 years ago	The systems & infrastructure encyclopaedia toolkit (based on MediaWiki)
Awesome Sysadmin / Configuration Management
Ansible			It's written in Python and manages the nodes over SSH
CFEngine			Lightweight agent system. Configuration state is specified via a declarative language
Chef			It's written in Ruby and Erlang and uses a pure-Ruby DSL
mgmt	3,680	almost 2 years ago	Next generation config management written in Go
Pallet			Infrastructure definition, configuration and management via a Clojure DSL
Puppet			It's written in Ruby and uses Puppet's declarative language or a Ruby DSL
(R)?ex			It's written in Perl and use plain Perl, over SSH without agent
Salt			It's written in Python
Slaughter			It's written in Perl
Awesome Sysadmin / Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment
Buildbot			Python-based toolkit for continuous integration
Drone	32,320	almost 2 years ago	Continuous integration server built on Docker and configured using YAML files
GitLab CI			Based off of ruby. They also provide GitLab, which manages git repositories
Go			Open source continuous delivery server
Jenkins			An extendable open source continuous integration server
Concourse CI			A pipeline-based CI system written in Go
Spinnaker			Open source, multi-cloud continuous delivery platform for releasing software changes
TeamCity			Powerful Continuous Integration out of the box
Awesome Sysadmin / Control Panels
Ajenti			Control panel for Linux and BSD
Cockpit			New multi-server web interface for Linux servers written in C
Feathur			VPS Provisioning and Management Software
Froxlor			Easy to use panel for Linux with Nginx and PHP-FPM support
ISPConfig			Hosting control panel for Linux
Sentora			Control panel for Linux, BSD, and Windows based on ZPanel
VestaCP			Hosting panel for Linux but with Nginx
Virtualmin			Control panel for Linux based on webmin
Webmin			Linux server control panel
ZPanel			Control panel for Linux, BSD, and Windows
Awesome Sysadmin / Deployment Automation
Capistrano			Deploy your application to any number of machines simultaneously, in sequence or as a rolling set via SSH (rake based)
Fabric			Python library and cli tool for streamlining the use of SSH for application deployment or systems administration tasks
Mina			Really fast deployer and server automation tool (rake based)
Rocketeer			PHP task runner and deployment tool
Vlad the Deployer			Deployment automation (rake based)
Awesome Sysadmin / Diagramming
drawthe.net			Draws network diagrams dynamically from a text file describing the placement, layout and icons
Awesome Sysadmin / Distributed Filesystems
Ceph			Distributed object store and file system
DRBD			Distributed Replicated Block Device
LeoFS			Unstructured object/data storage and a highly available, distributed, eventually consistent storage system
GlusterFS			Scale-out network-attached storage file system
HDFS			Distributed, scalable, and portable file-system written in Java for the Hadoop framework
Lustre			A type of parallel distributed file system, generally used for large-scale cluster computing
MooseFS			Fault tolerant, network distributed file system
MogileFS			Application level, network distributed file system
OpenAFS			Distributed network file system with read-only replicas and multi-OS support
TahoeLAFS			secure, decentralized, fault-tolerant, peer-to-peer distributed data store and distributed file system
XtreemFS			XtreemFS is a fault-tolerant distributed file system for all storage needs
Awesome Sysadmin / DNS
Bind			The most widely used name server software
djbdns			A collection of DNS applications, including tinydns
Designate			DNS REST API that support several DNS servers as its backend
dnsmasq			A lightweight service providing DNS, DHCP and TFTP services to small-scale networks
Knot			High performance authoritative-only DNS server
NSD			Authoritative only, high performance, simple name server
PowerDNS			DNS server with a variety of data storage back-ends and load balancing features
Unbound			Validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver
Yadifa			Lightweight authoritative Name Server with DNSSEC capabilities powering the .eu top-level domain
Awesome Sysadmin / Editors
Atom			A hackable text editor from GitHub
Brackets			Open source code editor for web designers and front-end developers
Eclipse			IDE written in Java with an extensible plug-in system
Geany			GTK2 text editor
GNU Emacs			An extensible, customizable text editor-and more
Haroopad			Markdown editor with live preview
ICEcoder			Code editor awesomeness, built with common web languages
IntellijIDEA	17,481	almost 2 years ago	Capable and ergonomic IDE, written in Java, It has a lot of plug-ins
jotgit	208	about 12 years ago	Git-backed real-time collaborative code editing
Light Table			The next generation code editor
Lime			Aims to provide an open source solution to Sublime Text
SciTE			A SCIntilla based Text Editor
TextMate	14,242	over 2 years ago	A graphical text editor for OS X
Vim			A highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient editing
Nano			A popular text editor, by default comes with most Linux distributions
Visual Studio Code			Fast, hackable, multi-platform code editor from Microsoft
Awesome Sysadmin / IT Asset Management
GLPI			Information Resource-Manager with an additional Administration Interface
OCS Inventory NG			Enables users to inventory their IT assets
Netbox	16,470	almost 2 years ago	IP address management (IPAM) and data center infrastructure management (DCIM) tool
RackTables			Datacenter and server room asset management like document hardware assets, network addresses, space in racks, networks configuration
Ralph	2,259	almost 2 years ago	Asset management, DCIM and CMDB system for large Data Centers as well as smaller LAN networks
Snipe IT			Asset & license management software
OpenDCIM			A web based Data Center Infrastructure Management application
Awesome Sysadmin / LDAP
389 Directory Server			Developed by Red Hat
Apache Directory Server			Apache Software Foundation project written in Java
Fusion Directory			Improve the Management of the services and the company directory based on OpenLDAP
OpenDJ			Fork of OpenDS
OpenDS			Another directory server written in Java
OpenLDAP			Developed by the OpenLDAP Project
Apache Directory Studio			The Eclipse-based LDAP browser and directory client
Awesome Sysadmin / Log Management
Echofish			A web based real-time event log aggregation, analysis, monitoring and management system
Elasticsearch			A Lucene Based Document store mainly used for log indexing, storage and analysis
Fluentd			Log Collector and Shipper
Flume			Distributed log collection and aggregation system
Graylog2			Pluggable Log and Event Analysis Server with Alerting options
Heka			Stream processing system which may be used for log aggregation
Kibana			Visualize logs and time-stamped data
Logstash			Tool for managing events and logs
Octopussy			Log Management Solution (Visualize / Alert / Report)
Awesome Sysadmin / Mail Servers
Courier IMAP/POP3			Fast, scalable, enterprise IMAP and POP3 server
Cyrus IMAP/POP3			Intended to be run on sealed servers, where normal users are not permitted to log in
Dovecot			IMAP and POP3 server written primarily with security in mind
Qpopper			One of the oldest and most popular server implementations of POP3
Exim			Message transfer agent (MTA) developed at the University of Cambridge
Haraka			A high-performance, pluginable SMTP server written in JavaScript
MailCatcher			Ruby gem that deploys a simply SMTP MTA gateway that accepts all mail and displays in web interface. Useful for debugging or development
Maildrop	725	over 7 years ago	Open Source disposable email SMTP server, also useful for development
OpenSMTPD			Secure SMTP server implementation from the OpenBSD project
Postfix			Fast, easy to administer, and secure Sendmail replacement
Qmail			Secure Sendmail replacement
Sendmail			Message transfer agent (MTA)
Mail-in-a-Box			Take back control of your email with this easy-to-deploy mail server in a box
iRedMail			Full-featured mail server solution based on Postfix and Dovecot
Awesome Sysadmin / Messaging
ejabberd			XMPP instant messaging server written in Erlang/OTP
Metronome IM			Fork of Prosody IM
MongooseIM			Fullstack real-time mobile messaging platform (XMPP+REST) in Erlang
Openfire			Real time collaboration (RTC) server
Prosody IM			XMPP server written in Lua
Tigase			XMPP server implementation in Java
Candy			Multi user XMPP client written in Javascript
Kaiwa			Web based chat client in the style of common paid alternatives
Lets-Chat			A self hosted chat suite written in Node
Awesome Sysadmin / Monitoring
Alerta	2,400	almost 2 years ago	Distributed, scaleable and flexible monitoring system
Canopsis			Opensource Hypervision and Data Aggregation Software
Cacti			Web-based network monitoring and graphing tool
Cabot			Monitoring and alerts, similar to PagerDuty
Centreon			IT infrastructure and application monitoring for service performance
check_mk			Collection of extensions for Nagios
Flapjack			Monitoring notification routing & event processing system
Icinga			Fork of Nagios
LibreNMS	3,979	almost 2 years ago	fork of Observium
Monit			Small Open Source utility for managing and monitoring Unix systems
Munin			Networked resource monitoring tool
Naemon			Network monitoring tool based on the Nagios 4 core with performance enhancements and new features
Nagios			Computer system, network and infrastructure monitoring software application
Node-Bell			Real-time anomalies detection for periodic time series, metrics monitor
Observium			SNMP monitoring for servers and networking devices. Runs on linux
Opsview			Based on Nagios 4, Opsview Core is ideal for small IT and test environments
Riemann			Flexible and fast events processor allowing complex events/metrics analysis
Sensu			Open source monitoring framework
Sentry			Application monitoring, event logging and aggregation
Serverstats			A simple tool for creating graphs using rrdtool. ( )
Seyren	859	almost 4 years ago	An alerting dashboard for Graphite
Shinken			Another monitoring framework
Xymon			Network monitoring inspired by Big Brother
Zabbix			Enterprise-class software for monitoring of networks and applications
Zenoss			Application, server, and network management platform based on Zope
Adagios			Web based Nagios configuration interface
Dash	10,434	over 2 years ago	A low-overhead monitoring web dashboard for a GNU/Linux machine
Thruk			Multibackend monitoring web interface with support for Naemon, Nagios, Icinga and Shinken
Uchiwa			Simple dashboard for the Sensu monitoring framework
OMD			The Open Monitoring Distribution
Awesome Sysadmin / Metric & Metric Collection
Collectd			System statistic collection daemon
Collectl			High precision system performance metrics collecting tool
dashing			- Ruby gem that allows for rapid statistical dashboard development. An all HTML5 approach allows for big screen displays in data centers or conference rooms
Smashing	3,243	over 3 years ago	Ruby gem that allows for rapid statistical dashboard development. An all HTML5 approach allows for big screen displays in data centers or conference rooms. Fork of Dashing
Diamond	1,175	over 9 years ago	Python based statistic collection daemon
Facette			Time series data visualization and graphing software written in Go
Freeboard	6,455	almost 3 years ago	A damn-sexy front-end real-time dashboard. Transforms raw JSON into delicious UI
Ganglia			High performance, scalable RRD based monitoring for grids and/or clusters of servers. Compatible with Graphite using a single collection process
Grafana			A Graphite & InfluxDB Dashboard and Graph Editor
Graphite			Open source scalable graphing server
InfluxDB			Open source distributed time series database with no external dependencies
KairosDB			Fast distributed scalable time series database, fork of OpenTSDB 1.x
NetData			Distributed real-time performance and health monitoring
OpenTSDB			Store and server massive amounts of time series data without losing granularity
Packetbeat			Captures network traffic and displays it in a custom Kibana dashboard for easy viewing
Prometheus			Service monitoring system and time series database
RRDtool			Open source industry standard, high performance data logging and graphing system for time series data
Statsd	17,711	over 2 years ago	Application statistic listener
Awesome Sysadmin / Network Configuration Management
GestióIP			An automated web based IPv4/IPv6 IP Address Management tool
NOC Project			Scalable, high-performance and open-source system for ISP, service and content providers
Netbox	16,470	almost 2 years ago	IP address management (IPAM) and data center infrastructure management (DCIM) tool
Oxidized	2,835	almost 2 years ago	A modern take on network device configuration monitoring with web interface and GIT storage
phpIPAM			Open source IP address management with integration
RANCID			Monitors network device's configuration and maintain history of changes
rConfig			Another network device configuration management tool
trigger	552	almost 3 years ago	Robust network automation toolkit written in Python
Awesome Sysadmin / Newsletters
DadaMail			Mailing List Manager, written in Perl
phpList			Newsletter manager written in PHP
Awesome Sysadmin / NoSQL
Apache HBase			Hadoop database, a distributed, big data store
Cassandra			Distributed DBMS designed to handle large amounts of data across many servers
Hypertable			C++ based BigTable-like DBMS, communicates through Thrift and runs either as stand-alone or on distributed FS such as Hadoop
CouchDB			Ease of use, with multi-master replication document-oriented database system
ElasticSearch			Java based database, popular with log aggregation, and email archiving projects
MongoDB			Another document-oriented database system
RavenDB			Document based database with ACID/Transactional features
RethinkDB			Open source distributed document store database, focuses on JSON
FlockDB	3,337	over 9 years ago	Twitter's distributed, fault-tolerant graph database
Neo4j			Open source graph database
Couchbase			In-memory, replicated, peristent key/value datastore
LevelDB	36,769	about 2 years ago	Google's high performance key/value database
Redis			Networked, in-memory, key-value data store with optional durability
Riak			Another fault-tolerant key-value NoSQL database
Awesome Sysadmin / Packaging
fpm	11,185	almost 2 years ago	Versatile multi format package creator
omnibus-ruby	1,291	about 2 years ago	Full stack, cross distro packaging software (Ruby)
packman			Full stack, cross distro packaging software (Python)
tito	383	almost 2 years ago	Builds RPMs for git-based projects
Awesome Sysadmin / Queuing
ActiveMQ			An open source message broker written in Java together with a full JMS client
BeanstalkD			A simple, fast work queue
Gearman			Fast multi-language queuing/job processing platform
Kafka			A high-throughput distributed messaging system
NSQ			A realtime distributed messaging platform
RabbitMQ			Robust, fully featured, cross distro queuing system
ZeroMQ			High-performance asynchronous messaging library
Awesome Sysadmin / RDBMS
Firebird			True universal open source database
Galera			Galera Cluster for MySQL is an easy-to-use high-availability solution with high system up-time, no data loss, and scalability for future growth
MariaDB			Community-developed fork of the MySQL
MySQL			Most popular RDBMS server
Percona Server			Enhanced, drop-in MySQL replacement
PostgreSQL			Object-relational database management system (ORDBMS)
PostgreSQL-XL			Scalable Open Source PostgreSQL-based database cluster
SQLite			Library that implements a self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional SQL DBS
Awesome Sysadmin / Security
Blackbox	6,692	almost 2 years ago	Safely store secrets in Git/Mercurial. Provides tooling to automatically encrypt secrets like passwords
Denyhosts			Thwart SSH dictionary based attacks and brute force attacks
Fail2Ban			Scans log files and takes action on IPs that show malicious behavior
fwknop			Protects ports via Single Packet Authorization in your firewall
Glastopf			A low-interaction web application honeypot to emulate vulnerabilities and gather attack data
Kippo	1,633	almost 3 years ago	A medium-interaction SSH honeypot, mostly used as a standalone SSH daemon with a configurable Filesystem sandbox
OSSEC			OSSEC is a HIDS that performs log analysis, FIM, rootkit detection, and much more
OSQuery			Query your servers status and info using a SQL like interface
pfSense			Firewall and Router FreeBSD distribution
Snort			Snort is a free and open source network intrusion prevention system (NIPS) and network intrusion detection system (NIDS) created by Martin Roesch in 1998
SpamAssassin			A powerful and popular email spam filter employing a variety of detection technique
BounCA			BounCA is a personal SSL / Certificate Authority Key management tool. Create self-signed SSL certificates via your browser. ( )
Awesome Sysadmin / Service Discovery
Consul			Consul is a tool for service discovery, monitoring and configuration
Doozerd	3,269	over 10 years ago	Doozer is a highly-available, completely consistent store for small amounts of extremely important data
ZooKeeper			ZooKeeper is a centralized service for maintaining configuration information, naming, providing distributed synchronization, and providing group services
Awesome Sysadmin / Software Containers
Bitnami			Produces open source installers or software packages for web applications and development stacks as well as virtual appliances
Docker			Open platform for developers and sysadmins to build, ship, and run distributed applications
LXC			Userspace interface for the Linux kernel containment features
LXD			LXD is a container "hypervisor"
OpenVZ			Container-based virtualization for Linux
Docker Compose			Fast, isolated development environments using Docker
Singularity			Flexible containers without root
Awesome Sysadmin / SSH
Advanced SSH config			Enhances ssh_config file capabilities, completely transparent
autossh			Automatically respawn ssh session after network interruption
Cluster SSH			Controls a number of xterm windows via a single graphical console
DSH			Dancer's shell / distributed shell - Wrapper for executing multiple remote shell commands from one command line
Mosh			The mobile shell
parallel-ssh			Provides parallel versions of OpenSSH and related tools
pdsh			Pdsh is a high-performance, parallel remote shell utility
SSH Power Tool			Execute commands and upload files to many servers simultaneously without using pre-shared keys
sshrc			sources ~/.sshrc on your local computer after logging in remotely
stormssh			A command line tool to manage SSH connections
Awesome Sysadmin / Statistics
Analog			Logfile Analyser
AWStats			Generates web, streaming, ftp or mail server statistics graphically
GoAccess			Real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal
Open Web Analytics			Add web analytics to websites using JS, PHP or REST APIs
Piwik			Web analytics application
Webalizer			Fast, free web server log file analysis program
Awesome Sysadmin / Status Pages
Cachet			An open source status page system written in PHP
Awesome Sysadmin / Ticketing systems
Bugzilla			General-purpose bugtracker and testing tool originally developed and used by the Mozilla project
Cerb			Group-based e-mail management project
Flyspray			Web-based bug tracking system written in PHP
MantisBT			Web-based bug tracking system
osTicket			Simple support ticket system
OTRS			Trouble ticket system for assigning tickets to incoming queries and tracking further communications
Redmine			Open source project management/ticketing web application written in Ruby
Request Tracker			Ticket-tracking system written in Perl
TheBugGenie			Ticket system with extensive user rights system
Awesome Sysadmin / Troubleshooting
mitmproxy			A Python tool used for intercepting, viewing and modifying network traffic. Invaluable in troubleshooting certain problems
Sysdig			Capture system state and activity from a running Linux instance, then save, filter and analyze
Wireshark			The world's foremost network protocol analyzer
Trinity Rescue Kit			Linux Live CD for general computer troubleshooting
Awesome Sysadmin / Project Management
ChiliProject			Fork of Redmine
GitBucket	9,176	almost 2 years ago	Clone of GitHub written in Scala; single jar install
GitLab			Clone of GitHub written in Ruby
Gogs			Self-hosted Git service written in Go
OpenProject			Project collaboration with open source
Phabricator			Written in PHP
Redmine			Written in ruby on rails
Taiga			Agile, Free, Open Source Project Management Tool based on the Kanban and Scrum methods
The Bug Genie			Written in PHP
Trac			Written in python
Awesome Sysadmin / Version control
Fossil			Distributed version control with built-in wiki and bug tracking
Git			Distributed revision control and source code management (SCM) with an emphasis on speed
GNU Bazaar			Distributed revision control system sponsored by Canonical
Mercurial			Another distributed revision control
Subversion			Client-server revision control system
Awesome Sysadmin / Virtualization
Archipel			XMPP based virtualization management platform
Ganeti			Cluster virtual server management software tool built on top of KVM and Xen
KVM			Linux kernel virtualization infrastructure
OpenNebula			Flexible enterprise cloud made simple
oVirt			Manages virtual machines, storage and virtual networks
Packer			A tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration
Proxmox VE			Complete open source virtualization management solution
QEMU			QEMU is a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer
Vagrant			Tool for building complete development environments
VirtualBox			Virtualization product from Oracle Corporation
Xen			Virtual machine monitor for 32/64 bit Intel / AMD (IA 64) and PowerPC 970 architectures
Awesome Sysadmin / VPN
OpenVPN			Uses a custom security protocol that utilizes SSL/TLS for key exchange
Pritunl			OpenVPN based solution. Easy to set up
SoftEther			Multi-protocol software VPN with advanced features
sshuttle	8,894	over 8 years ago	Poor man's VPN
strongSwan			Complete IPsec implementation for Linux
tinc			Distributed p2p VPN
wireguard			New minimal VPN Solution that is very fast
Awesome Sysadmin / Web
Apache			Most popular web server
Caddy			The HTTP/2 Web Server with Fully Managed TLS
Cherokee			Lightweight, high-performance web server/reverse proxy
Lighttpd			Web server more optimized for speed-critical environments
Nginx			Reverse proxy, load balancer, HTTP cache, and web server
uWSGI	3,470	almost 2 years ago	The uWSGI project aims at developing a full stack for building hosting services
HAProxy			Software based load Balancing, SSL offloading and performance optimization, compression, and general web routing
Squid			Caching proxy for the web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more
Traefik			Træfɪk is a modern HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer made to deploy microservices with ease
Varnish			HTTP based web application accelerator focusing on optimizing caching and compression
Awesome Sysadmin / Webmails
Mailpile			A modern, fast web-mail client with user-friendly encryption and privacy features
Roundcube			Browser-based IMAP client with an application-like user interface
SquirrelMail			Another browser-based IMAP client
Awesome Sysadmin / Wikis
BookStack			A simple, user-friendly wiki built with PHP that uses MySQL for storage
DokuWiki			Simple to use and highly versatile wiki that doesn't require a database
Gollum	13,877	almost 2 years ago	A simple, Git-powered wiki with a sweet API and local frontend
ikiwiki			A wiki compiler
MDwiki			Wiki completely built in HTML5/Javascript and runs 100% on the client
MediaWiki			Used to power Wikipedia
MoinMoin			An advanced, easy to use and extensible WikiEngine with a large community of users
Ōlelo Wiki	241	over 9 years ago	A a wiki that stores pages in a Git repository
TiddlyWiki			Complete interactive wiki in JavaScript
Resources / Blogs
Code as Craft			Etsy's Ops blog, lots of technical posts
DevOpsGuys			Devops consultants who blog about operations
Rackspace Developers			Slightly biased blog with lots of Devops Topics
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https://www.manning.com/books/learn-cisco-network-administration-in-a-month-of-lunches			[Learn Cisco Network Administration in a Month of Lunches] ( ) - A tutorial designed for sysadmins who need to learn how to administer Cisco switches and routers
The Linux Command Line			A book about the Linux command line by William Shotts
The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win			How DevOps techniques can fix the problems that happen in IT organizations
The Practice of System and Network Administration			The first and second editions describes the best practices of system and network administration, independent of specific platforms or technologies
The Visible Ops Handbook: Implementing ITIL in 4 Practical and Auditable Steps			Is a methodology designed to jumpstart implementation of controls and process improvement
UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook			Approaches system administration from a practical perspective
Securing DevOps			A book on Security techniques for DevOps that reviews state of the art practices used in securing web applications and their infrastructure
Resources / Newsletters
Servers for Hackers			Newsletter for programmers who find themselves needing to know their way around a server
DevOpsLinks			A community of DevOps, SysAdmin & Developers with a weekly newsletter and a team chat
Resources / Repositories
Dotdeb			Repository with LAMP updated packages for Debian
ElRepo			Community Repo for Enterprise Linux (RHEL, CentOS, etc)
EPEL			Repository for RHEL and compatibles (CentOS, Scientific Linux)
Remi			Repository with LAMP updated packages for RHEL/Centos/Fedora
Software Collections			Community Release of . Provides updated packages of Ruby, Python, etc. for CentOS/Scientific Linux 6.x
Resources / Websites
Ops School			Comprehensive program that will help you learn to be an operations engineer
Digital Ocean Tutorials			A surprisingly vast resource for getting the basics of certain applications, tools, or even systems administration topics

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