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Automation build tool, similar to make, a library and command-line tool whose mission is to drive processes described in build files as targets and extension points dependent upon each other. ( )

Build automation tool mainly for Java. A software project management and comprehension tool. Based on the concept of a project object model (POM), Maven can manage a project's build, reporting and documentation from a central piece of information. ( )

A fast, scalable, multi-language and extensible build system. Used by Google. ( )

You can use Bolt to run one-off tasks, scripts to automate the provisioning and management of some nodes, you can use Bolt to move a step beyond scripts, and make them shareable. ( )

The most popular automation build tool for many purposes, make is a tool which controls the generation of executables and other non-source files of a program from the program's source files. ( )

Another build automation system. ( )

Build automation tool similar to Make, written in and extensible in Ruby. ( )

Backup and archive many computers on a network to disk, tape changer/drive or cloud storage. ( )

Lightweight, extensible meta-backup system, provides a centralized way to configure and coordinate many different backup utilities

High-performance, enterprise-grade system for backing up to a server's disk.. ( )

Cross-network backup solution which preserves, archives, and recovers data from all major operating systems. ( )

Backup and Recovery Manager for PostgreSQL. ( )

Deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryption. ( )

Network backup and restore program. ( )

Which stands for Disk ARchive, is a robust and rich featured archiving and backup software of the tar style. ( )

Backup client that securely stores encrypted, incremental, compressed backups on cloud storage services and remote file servers. ( )

Encrypted bandwidth-efficient backup using the rsync algorithm. ( )

Proxmox Backup Server is an enterprise-class, client-server backup solution thatis capable of backing up virtual machines, containers, and physical hosts. ( )

Command-line program to sync files and directories to and from different cloud storage providers.. ( )

Reverse differential backup tool, over a network or locally. ( )

Easy, fast, verifiable, secure and efficient remote backup tool. ( )

Filesystem snapshot utility based on rsync. ( )

Shield

A pluggable architecture for backup and restore of database systems

Client/Server Open Source Network Backup for Windows, MacOS and Linux. ( )

EasyBuild builds software and modulefiles for High Performance Computing (HPC) systems in an efficient way. ( )

Environment Modules provides for the dynamic modification of a user's environment via modulefiles. ( )

Lmod is a Lua based module system that easily handles the MODULEPATH Hierarchical problem. ( )

A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers. ( )

The oldest Internet Relay Chat (IRC) bot still in active development. ( )

Plugin based chatbot designed to be easily deployable, extensible and maintainable. ( )

A customizable, life embetterment robot. ( )

Provisioning, configuration management, and application-deployment tool. ( )

Configuration management system for automated configuration and maintenance of large-scale computer systems. ( )

Configuration management tool using a pure-Ruby, domain-specific language (DSL) for writing system configuration "recipes". ( )

Software configuration management tool which includes its own declarative language to describe system configuration. ( )

Scalable and dynamic configuration management system for patching, security & compliance, based on CFEngine. ( )

Event-driven IT automation, remote task execution, and configuration management software. ( )

At Tumblr, it's the infrastructure source of truth and knowledge. ( )

IT Documentation and CMDB

Complete ITIL web based service management tool. ( )

IP address management (IPAM) and data center infrastructure management (DCIM) tool. ( , )

Python-based toolkit for continuous integration. ( )

Enterprise-Grade Continuous Delivery & DevOps Automation Open Source Platform. ( )

Concourse is a CI tool that treats pipelines as first class objects and containerizes every step along the way. ( , )

Drone is a Continuous Delivery platform built on Docker, written in Go. ( )

Programmatically define and run workflows to connect configuration management, source code management, build, continuous integration, continuous deployment and communication tools. ( )

Gitlab's built-in, full-featured CI/CD solution. ( )

Continuous delivery server. ( )

Continuous Integration Server. ( )

Fast, lightweight, simple and flexible Continuous Integration. ( )

PHP Censor

Open source self-hosted continuous integration server for PHP projects

Free and open source continuous integration specifically designed for PHP. ( )

Open Source Continuous Deployment / Continuous Integration platform. ( )

Open Source CI/CD tool for building Docker images and deploying to Kubernetes via GitOps. ( )

Community fork of Drone that uses Docker containers. ( )

Control panel for Linux and BSD. ( )

Web-based graphical interface for servers. ( )

Lightweight server management software with Nginx and PHP-FPM support. ( )

Web server control panel (fork of VestaCP). ( , )

Manage Linux servers directly through your browser. ( )

Open-Source Web hosting control panel for Linux, BSD (fork of ZPanel). ( )

Powerful and flexible web hosting control panel for Linux and BSD systems. ( )

Web-based interface for system administration for Unix. ( )

Deploy your application to any number of machines simultaneously, in sequence or as a rolling set via SSH (rake based). ( )

Flow-based orchestration tool for managing deployed applications, with Docker capabilities. ( )

Cloud computing software for creating, managing, and deploying infrastructure cloud services. ( )

Cobbler is a Linux installation server that allows for rapid setup of network installation environments. ( )

Python library and cli tool for streamlining the use of SSH for application deployment or systems administration tasks. ( )

Genesis

A template framework for multi-environment BOSH deployments

Webserver-based repository of packages and package metadata, that allows macOS administrators to manage software installs. ( )

Deploy VMs across different cloud providers, and run commands and scripts across any or all of them in parallel via SSH. ( )

A.K.A. . Easy to use Diagram UI with a plethora of templates. ( )

API for generating diagrams from textual descriptions. ( )

Javascript module with a unique, easy, shorthand syntax. Integrates into several other tools like Grafana. ( )

Distributed object, block, and file storage platform. ( )

Distributed replicated storage system, implemented as a Linux kernel driver. ( )

Software-defined distributed storage that can scale to several petabytes, with interfaces for object, block and file storage. ( )

Distributed file system that provides high-throughput access to application data. ( )

Distributed POSIX file system built on top of Redis and S3. ( )

Kubo

Implementation of IPFS, a global, versioned, peer-to-peer filesystem that seeks to connect all computing devices with the same system of files

Highly available, distributed, replicated eventually consistent object/blob store. ( )

Parallel distributed file system, generally used for large-scale cluster computing. ( )

High-performance, S3 compatible object store built for large scale AI/ML, data lake and database workloads. ( )

Fault tolerant, network distributed file system. ( )

Distributed network file system with read-only replicas and multi-OS support. ( )

A highly available, distributed, eventually consistent object/blob store. ( )

A set of open source formats, protocols, and software for modeling, storing, searching, sharing and synchronizing data (previously Camlistore). ( )

Secure, decentralized, fault-tolerant, peer-to-peer distributed data store and distributed file system. ( )

Distributed, replicated and fault-tolerant file system for federated IT infrastructures.. ( )

Atomia DNS

DNS management system

DNSaaS services for OpenStack. ( )

Synchronize your DNS to multiple providers from a simple DSL. ( )

Manage your domains and other internet assets in a central location. ( )

Dynamic DNS service. ( , )

octoDNS

DNS as code - Tools for managing DNS across multiple providers

Web-based DNS control panel for PowerDNS server. ( )

Application to look up DNS records such as SPF, MX, Whois, and more. ( )

Versatile, classic, complete name server software. ( )

Flexible DNS server. ( )

A collection of DNS applications, including tinydns. ( )

Provides network infrastructure for small networks: DNS, DHCP, router advertisement and network boot. ( )

High performance authoritative-only DNS server. ( )

Authoritative DNS name server developed speed, reliability, stability and security. ( )

Versatile nameserver which supports a large number of backends. ( )

Validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver. ( )

Clean, small, light and RFC-compliant name server implementation developed from scratch by .eu. ( )

Atom Community

A fork of A hackable text editor from Github

Code editor for web designers and front-end developers. ( )

IDE written in Java with an extensible plug-in system. ( )

GTK2 text editor. ( )

An extensible, customizable text editor-and more. ( )

Markdown editor with live preview. ( )

Code editor awesomeness, built with common web languages. ( , )

jotgit

Git-backed real-time collaborative code editing

IDE by the people behind KDE. ( )

A modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor. ( )

Easy to use, customizable text editor. ( )

GPLv2 multi-language editor with syntax highlighting for Windows. ( )

A graphical text editor for OS X. ( )

A highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient editing. ( )

An open source cross-platform extensible code editor based on removing their non-free additions. ( )

Enterprise-class Open Source LDAP server for Linux. ( )

Extensible and embeddable directory server, certified LDAPv3 compatible, with Kerberos 5 and Change Password Protocol support, triggers, stored procedures, queues and views. ( )

Integrated security information management solution combining Linux (Fedora), 389 Directory Server, Kerberos, NTP, DNS, and Dogtag Certificate System (web interface and command-line administration tools). ( )

Multi-protocol policy server (radiusd) that implements RADIUS, DHCP, BFD, and ARP and associated client/PAM library/Apache module. ( )

lldap

Light (simplified) LDAP implementation with a simple, intuitive web interface and GraphQL support

Open-source implementation of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (server, libraries and clients). ( )

The Single Sign-On Multi-Factor portal for web apps. ( )

Flexible identity provider with support for different protocols. (OAuth 2.0, SAML, LDAP and Radius). ( )

Open Source Identity and Access Management. ( )

A personal SSL Key / Certificate Authority web-based tool for creating self-signed certificates. ( )

easy-rsa

Bash script to build and manage a PKI CA

Improve the Management of the services and the company directory based on OpenLDAP. ( )

Web frontend for managing entries (e.g. users, groups, DHCP settings) stored in an LDAP directory. ( )

Libravatar is a service which delivers your avatar (profile picture) to other websites. ( )

An identity and context aware access-proxy inspired by BeyondCorp. ( )

Active Directory and CIFS protocol implementation. ( )

A private certificate authority (X.509 & SSH) and related tools for secure automated certificate management. ( )

Cloud-native Identity & Access Management solution providing a platform for secure authentication, authorization and identity management. ( )

Information Resource-Manager with an additional Administration Interface. ( )

Asset management and deployment solution for all devices in your IT Department. ( )

Hardware and software inventory, client management, deployment, and patching for Linux and Windows. ( )

Datacenter and server room asset management like document hardware assets, network addresses, space in racks, networks configuration. ( , )

Asset management, DCIM and CMDB system for large Data Centers as well as smaller LAN networks. ( , )

Asset & license management software. ( )

Data collector for unified logging layer. ( )

Distributed, reliable, and available service for efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log data. ( )

Real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal or through the browser. ( )

Log aggregation system designed to store and query logs from all your applications and infrastructure. ( )

Rocket-fast system for log processing. ( )

Terminal MUA with a focus on plaintext and features for developers. ( )

Old school email client (and news reader), based on GTK+. ( )

Simple IMAP migration tool for copying mailboxes to other servers. ( )

Small but very powerful text-based mail client. ( )

Still developed predecessor to Claws Mail, lightweight mail client. ( )

Free email application that's easy to set up and customize. ( )

Single-purpose data shippers that send data from hundreds or thousands of machines and systems to Logstash or Elasticsearch. ( )

System statistics collection daemon. ( )

Diamond

Daemon that collects system metrics and publishes them to Graphite (and others)

A Graphite & InfluxDB Dashboard and Graph Editor. ( )

Scalable graphing server. ( )

Industry standard, high performance data logging and graphing system for time series data. ( )

Statsd

Daemon that listens for statistics like counters and timers, sent over UDP or TCP, and sends aggregates to one or more pluggable backend services

Gathers data from local collectors and pushes the data to OpenTSDB. ( )

Telegraf

Plugin-driven server agent for collecting, processing, aggregating, and writing metrics

The package manager for Windows. ( )

Partition and disk imaging/cloning program. ( )

Mailing List Manager, written in Perl. ( )

Cloning/imaging solution/rescue suite. ( )

Newsletter and email marketing software. ( )

Web based Nagios interface for configuration and monitoring (replacement to the standard interface), and a REST interface. ( )

Distributed, scalable and flexible monitoring system. ( )

Bloonix is a monitoring solution that helps businesses to ensure high availability and performance. ( )

Monitoring and alerting system by Stack Exchange. ( )

Web-based network monitoring and graphing tool. ( )

cadvisor

Analyzes resource usage and performance characteristics of running containers

Comprehensive solution for monitoring of applications, servers, and networks. ( )

dashdot

A simple, modern server dashboard for smaller private servers. ( )

EdMon

A command-line monitoring application helping you to check that your hosts and services are available, with notifications support

A lightweight and simple dashboard monitor for Linux, available in Web and Bash application. ( )

Open-source, cross-platform real-time monitoring tool with CLI and web dashboard interfaces and many exporting options. ( )

Monitoring for cron jobs, background services and scheduled tasks. ( )

Nagios fork that has since lapped nagios several times. Comes with the possibility of clustered monitoring. ( )

Fully featured network monitoring system that provides a wealth of features and device support. ( )

Linux Dash

A low-overhead monitoring web dashboard for a GNU/Linux machine

Small utility for managing and monitoring Unix systems. ( )

Networked resource monitoring tool. ( )

Network monitoring tool based on the Nagios 4 core with performance enhancements and new features. ( )

Computer system, network and infrastructure monitoring software application. ( )

Distributed, real-time, performance and health monitoring for systems and applications. Runs on Linux, FreeBSD, and MacOS. ( )

Open Source network and infrastructure monitoring and management. ( )

Network monitoring and management platform that provides real-time insight into network health and performance

Monitoring Suite featuring seamless integrations with Naemon, Checkmk, Grafana and more. ( , )

Lightweight, distributed system performance and analysis framework. ( )

Open source tool to monitor your servers and websites. ( )

A customizable PHP script that displays information about your system nicely. ( )

Service monitoring system and time series database. ( )

Flexible and fast events processor allowing complex events/metrics analysis. ( )

rtop

Interactive, remote system monitoring tool based on SSH

ruptime

Classic system status server

Scrutiny

Web UI for hard drive S.M.A.R.T monitoring, historical trends & real-world failure thresholds

Monitoring tool for ephemeral infrastructure and distributed applications. ( )

Status

Simple and lightweight system monitoring tool for small homeservers with a pleasant web interface. (

Multibackend monitoring web interface with support for Naemon, Nagios, Icinga and Shinken. ( )

Unified XDR and SIEM protection for endpoints and cloud workloads. ( )

Enterprise-class software for monitoring of networks and applications. ( )

Graphical network simulator that provides a variety of virtual appliances. ( )

Open Source Network Management System for OpenWRT based routers and access points. ( , )

Oxidized

Network device configuration backup tool

Open source IP address management with PowerDNS integration. ( )

Monitor network devices configuration and maintain history of changes. ( )

Network device configuration management tool. ( )

Build your own PaaS in a few minutes. ( , )

An open-source & self-hostable Heroku / Netlify alternative (and even more). ( )

An open-source PaaS (alternative to Heroku). ( )

fx

A tool to help you do Function as a Service with painless on your own servers

A self-hosted Heroku PaaS alternative for Kubernetes that implements GitOps. ( , )

LocalStack is a fully functional local AWS cloud stack. This includes Lambda for serverless computation. ( )

Firebase Alternative with GraphQL. Get a database and backend configured and ready in minutes. ( )

Serverless Functions Made Simple for Docker & Kubernetes. ( )

Easily build Cloud Computing Platforms with features like Serverless WebAssembly Functions, Frontend Hosting, CI/CD, Object Storage, K/V Database, and Pub-Sub Messaging. ( )

Trusted-CGI

Lightweight self-hosted lambda/applications/cgi/serverless-functions platform

Swiss army knife for Debian repository management. ( )

Versatile multi format package creator. ( )

omnibus-ruby

Easily create full-stack installers for your project across a variety of platforms

tito

Builds RPMs for git-based projects

Java message broker. ( )

A simple, fast work queue. ( )

Fast multi-language queuing/job processing platform. ( )

A realtime distributed messaging platform. ( )

Lightweight queuing system. ( )

Feature-rich remote desktop application for linux and other unixes. ( )

High-performance, multi-platform VNC client and server. ( )

X2Go is an open source remote desktop software for Linux that uses the NoMachine/NX technology protocol. ( )

A Linux-based firmware for wireless routers and access points, originally designed for the Linksys WRT54G series. ( )

A Linux-based router featuring Mesh networking, IPS via snort and AQM among many other features. ( )

An open source FreeBSD-based firewall and router with traffic shaping, load balancing, and virtual private network capabilities. ( )

Free network firewall distribution, based on the FreeBSD operating system with a custom kernel and including third party free software packages for additional functionality. ( )

Consul is a tool for service discovery, monitoring and configuration. ( )

Distributed K/V-Store, authenticating via SSL PKI and a REST HTTP Api for shared configuration and service discovery. ( )

ZooKeeper is a centralized service for maintaining configuration information, naming, providing distributed synchronization, and providing group services. ( )

Define and run multi-container Docker applications. ( )

Manage cluster of Docker Engines. ( )

Platform for developers and sysadmins to build, ship, and run distributed applications. ( )

Userspace interface for the Linux kernel containment features. ( )

Container "hypervisor" and a better UX for LXC. ( )

Container-based virtualization for Linux. ( )

Daemonless container engine for developing, managing, and running OCI Containers on your Linux System. Containers can either be run as root or in rootless mode. Simply put: . ( )

Simple management UI for Docker. ( )

Lightweight, chroot-like, environment to run an OS or command directly under systemd. ( )

Bootable Debian Live CD with powerful CLI tools. ( )

A Python tool used for intercepting, viewing and modifying network traffic. Invaluable in troubleshooting certain problems. ( )

Network utility that combines traceroute and ping. ( )

Capture system state and activity from a running Linux instance, then save, filter and analyze. ( )

The world's foremost network protocol analyzer. ( )

Cross-platform version control system, like git, mercurial or svn but with a very different approach: focus on changes rather than snapshots. ( )

Distributed version control with built-in wiki and bug tracking. ( )

Distributed revision control and source code management (SCM) with an emphasis on speed. ( )

Distributed source control management tool. ( )

Client-server revision control system. ( )

Cluster virtual server management software tool built on top of KVM and Xen. ( )

Linux kernel virtualization infrastructure. ( )

Build and manage enterprise clouds for virtualized services, containerized applications and serverless computing. ( )

Manages virtual machines, storage and virtual networks. ( )

A tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration. ( )

Virtualization management solution. ( )

QEMU is a generic machine emulator and virtualizer. ( )

Tool for building complete development environments. ( )

Virtualization product from Oracle Corporation. ( )

Virtualization platform based on Xen Source and Citrix® Hypervisor (formerly XenServer). ( )

Virtual machine monitor for 32/64 bit Intel / AMD (IA 64) and PowerPC 970 architectures. ( )

True enterprise WireGuard with MFA/2FA and SSO. ( )

Out-of-the-box stateless dockerized OpenVPN server which starts in less than 2 seconds. ( )

WireGuard based VPN Server and Firewall. ( )

Gluetun VPN client

VPN client in a thin Docker container for multiple VPN providers, written in Go, and using OpenVPN or Wireguard, DNS over TLS, with a few proxy servers built-in

Headscale

Self-hostable fork of , cross-platform clients, simple to use, built-in (currently experimental) monitoring tools

Nebula

A scalable p2p VPN with a focus on performance, simplicity and security

Cisco AnyConnect-compatible VPN server. ( )

Uses a custom security protocol that utilizes SSL/TLS for key exchange. ( )

Multi-protocol software VPN with advanced features. ( )

sshuttle

Poor man's VPN

Complete IPsec implementation for Linux. ( )

Very fast VPN based on elliptic curve and public key crypto. ( )

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IT Forum which is attached to a large news site

Really, really large bulletin board system

News and information about Linux

General enterprise IT news and small articles

Q&A communities

StackExchange community for system and network administrators

Find alternatives to software you know and discover new software

Repository with LAMP updated packages for Debian and Ubuntu

Community Repo for Enterprise Linux (RHEL, CentOS, etc)

Repository for RHEL and compatibles (CentOS, Scientific Linux)

Community project that provides RPM packages for newer versions of select software for Enterprise Linux distributions

Repository with LAMP updated packages for RHEL/Centos/Fedora

Community Release of . Provides updated packages of Ruby, Python, etc. for CentOS/Scientific Linux 6.x

Compilation of software and tools for cloud computing

Arch Linux Wiki which has really nice written articles valid for other distros

Gentoo Linux Wiki with a lot in-detail description of Linux components

Your go-to SysAdmin Toolbox. Based on the list here

Comprehensive program that will help you learn to be an operations engineer

6,000+ tutorials for getting the basics of certain applications/tools/systems administration topics