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# Awesome Sysadmin
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**A curated list of amazingly awesome open source sysadmin resources.** You can check out [other awesome lists ](https://github.com/n1trux/awesome-awesomeness ) as well. Please read [CONTRIBUTING ](./CONTRIBUTING.md ) if you wish to add software.
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* [Awesome Sysadmin ](#awesome-sysadmin )
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* [Automation ](#automation )
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* [Backups ](#backups )
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* [ChatOps ](#chatops )
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* [Cloning ](#cloning )
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* [Cloud Computing ](#cloud-computing )
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* [Cloud Storage ](#cloud-storage )
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* [Code Review ](#code-review )
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* [Collaborative Software ](#collaborative-software )
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* [Configuration Management Database ](#configuration-management-database )
* [Configuration Management ](#configuration-management )
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* [Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment ](#continuous-integration--continuous-deployment )
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* [Control Panels ](#control-panels )
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* [Distributed Filesystems ](#distributed-filesystems )
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* [DNS ](#dns )
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* [Editors ](#editors )
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* [Identity Management ](#identity-management )
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* [IT Asset Management ](#it-asset-management )
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* [Log Management ](#log-management )
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* [Mail Clients ](#mail-clients )
* [Mail Servers ](#mail-servers )
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* [Monitoring ](#monitoring )
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* [Metric & Metric Collection ](#metric--metric-collection )
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* [Network Configuration Management ](#network-configuration-management )
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* [Newsletter ](#newsletters )
* [NoSQL ](#nosql )
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* [Packaging ](#packaging )
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* [Queuing ](#queuing )
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* [RDBMS ](#rdbms )
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* [Security ](#security )
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* [Service Discovery ](#service-discovery )
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* [Software Containers ](#software-containers )
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* [SSH ](#ssh )
* [Statistics ](#statistics )
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* [Status Pages ](#status-pages )
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* [Ticketing systems ](#ticketing-systems )
* [Troubleshooting ](#troubleshooting )
* [Project Management ](#project-management )
* [Version control ](#version-control )
* [Virtualization ](#virtualization )
* [VPN ](#vpn )
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* [XMPP ](#xmpp )
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* [Web ](#web )
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* [Wiki Software ](#wiki-software )
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* [Resources ](#resources )
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* [Blogs ](#blogs )
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* [Books ](#books )
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* [Communities/Forums ](#communities--forums )
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* [Newsletters ](#newsletters )
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* [Repositories ](#repositories )
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* [Websites ](#websites )
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* [Wikis ](#wikis )
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## Automation
*Automation build.*
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* [Apache Ant ](https://ant.apache.org/ ) - Automation build tool, similar to make, written in Java.
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* [Apache Maven ](http://maven.apache.org/ ) - Build automation tool mainly for Java.
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* [GNU Make ](http://www.gnu.org/software/make/ ) - The most popular automation build tool for many purposes.
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* [Gradle ](http://gradle.org/ ) - Another open source build automation system.
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## Backups
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*Backup software.*
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* [Amanda ](http://www.amanda.org/ ) - Client-server model backup tool.
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* [Attic ](https://attic-backup.org ) - A deduplicating backup program written in Python.
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* [Bacula ](http://www.bacula.org ) - Another Client-server model backup tool.
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* [Bareos ](http://www.bareos.org ) - A fork of Bacula backup tool.
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* [Backupninja ](https://labs.riseup.net/code/projects/backupninja ) - Lightweight, extensible meta-backup system.
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* [Backuppc ](http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ ) - Client-server model backup tool with file pooling scheme.
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* [Brebis ](http://brebisproject.org ) - A fully automated backup checker
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* [Burp ](http://burp.grke.org/ ) - Network backup and restore program.
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* [Duplicity ](http://duplicity.nongnu.org/ ) - Encrypted bandwidth-efficient backup using the rsync algorithm.
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* [Elkarbackup ](https://github.com/elkarbackup/elkarbackup ) - Backup solution based on RSnapshot with a simple web interface
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* [Lsyncd ](https://github.com/axkibe/lsyncd ) - File Monitor which spawns a process to synchronize the changes (rsync by default).
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* [Rsnapshot ](http://www.rsnapshot.org/ ) - Filesystem Snapshotting Utility.
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* [SafeKeep ](http://safekeep.sourceforge.net/ ) - Centralized pull-based backup using `rdiff-backup` .
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* [Snebu ](http://www.snebu.com/ ) – Snapshot backup with global multi-client deduplication and transparent compression.
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* [TarSnap ](https://www.tarsnap.com/ ) - Secure backup service with an open-source client.
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* [UrBackup ](http://www.urbackup.org/ ) - Another client-server backup system.
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* [DREBS ](https://github.com/dojo4/drebs ) - AWS EBS backup script that supports strategies.
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* [ZBackup ](http://zbackup.org/ ) - A versatile deduplicating backup tool.
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## ChatOps
*Conversation-driven development and management. See http://www.reddit.com/r/chatops for more information.*
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* [CloudBot ](https://github.com/CloudBotIRC/CloudBot ) - The simple, fast, expandable, open-source Python IRC bot.
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* [Eggdrop ](http://www.eggheads.org/ ) - the world's most popular Open Source IRC bot, designed for flexibility and ease of use, and is freely distributable under the GNU GPL.
* [Err ](http://errbot.net/ ) - a plugin based chatbot designed to be easily deployable, extensible and maintainable.
* [Hubot ](https://hubot.github.com/ ) - A customizable, life embetterment robot.
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* [Lazlo ](https://github.com/djosephsen/lazlo ) - A chatops automation framework in Go.
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* [Lita ](https://www.lita.io/ ) - A robot companion for your company's chat room.
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## Cloning
*Cloning software.*
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* [Clonezilla ](http://clonezilla.org/ ) - Partition and disk imaging/cloning program.
* [Fog ](http://www.fogproject.org/ ) - Another computer cloning solution.
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* [Redo Backup ](http://redobackup.org/ ) - Easy Backup, Recovery and Restore.
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## Cloud Computing
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* [AppScale ](http:/github.com/AppScale/appscale ) - Open source cloud software with Google App Engine compatibility.
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* [Archipel ](http://archipelproject.org/ ) - Manage and supervise virtual machines using Libvirt.
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* [CloudStack ](http://cloudstack.apache.org/ ) - Cloud computing software for creating, managing, and deploying infrastructure cloud services.
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* [Cobbler ](http://www.cobblerd.org/ ) - Cobbler is a Linux installation server that allows for rapid setup of network installation environments.
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* [Cracow Cloud One - Polish Private Cloud ](http://cc1.ifj.edu.pl/ ) - The CC1 system provides a complete solution for Private Cloud Computing.
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* [Eucalyptus ](https://www.eucalyptus.com/ ) - Open source private cloud software with AWS compatibility.
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* [Mesos ](http://mesos.apache.org/ ) - Develop and run resource-efficient distributed systems.
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* [OpenNebula ](http://opennebula.org/ ) - An user-driven cloud management platform for sysadmins and devops.
* [OpenStack ](https://www.openstack.org/ ) - Open source software for building private and public clouds.
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* [The Foreman ](http://theforeman.org/ ) - Foreman is a complete lifecycle management tool for physical and virtual servers. FOSS.
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## Cloud Orchestration
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* [BOSH ](http://docs.cloudfoundry.org/bosh/ ) - IaaS orchestration platform originally written for deploying and managing Cloud Foundry PaaS, but also useful for general purpose distributed systems.
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* [Cloudify ](http://www.getcloudify.org/ ) - Open source TOSCA-based cloud orchestration software platform written in Python and YAML.
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* [CloudSlang ](http://www.cloudslang.io/ ) - Flow-based orchestration tool for managing deployed applications, with Docker capabilities.
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* [Juju ](https://juju.ubuntu.com/ ) - Cloud orechestration tool which manages services as charms, YAML configuration and deployment script bundles.
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* [MCollective ](http://puppetlabs.com/mcollective ) - Ruby framework to manage server orchestration, developed by Puppet labs.
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* [Overcast ](http://andrewchilds.github.io/overcast/ ) - Deploy VMs across different cloud providers, and run commands and scripts across any or all of them in parallel via SSH.
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* [Rundeck ](http://rundeck.org/ ) - Simple orchestration tool.
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* [Salt ](http://www.saltstack.com/ ) - Fast, scalable and flexible systems management software written in Python/ZeroMQ.
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* [StackStorm ](http://stackstorm.com/ ) - Event Driven Operations and ChatOps platform for infrastructure management. Written in Python
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## Cloud Storage
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* [git-annex assistant ](http://git-annex.branchable.com/assistant/ ) - A synchronised folder on each of your OSX and Linux computers, Android devices, removable drives, NAS appliances, and cloud services.
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* [ownCloud ](https://owncloud.org ) - Provides universal access to your files via the web, your computer or your mobile devices.
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* [Pydio ](https://pyd.io ) - Pydio (formerly AjaXplorer) is a mature open source software solution for file sharing and synchronization.
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* [Seafile ](http://seafile.com ) - Another Open Source Cloud Storage solution.
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* [SparkleShare ](http://sparkleshare.org/ ) - Provides cloud storage and file synchronization services. By default, it uses Git as a storage backend.
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* [Swift ](http://docs.openstack.org/developer/swift/ ) - A highly available, distributed, eventually consistent object/blob store.
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* [Syncthing ](http://syncthing.net/ ) - Open Source system for private, encrypted and authenticated distribution of data.
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## Code Review
*Web Based collaborative code review system.*
* [Gerrit ](https://code.google.com/p/gerrit/ ) - Based on the Git version control, it facilitates software developers to review modifications to the source code and approve or reject those changes.
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* [Phabricator ](http://phabricator.org/ ) - 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.
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* [Review Board ](https://www.reviewboard.org/ ) - Available as free software under the MIT License.
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## Collaborative Software
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*Collaborative software or groupware suites.*
* [Citadel/UX ](http://www.citadel.org/ ) - Collaboration suite (messaging and groupware) that is descended from the Citadel family of programs.
* [EGroupware ](http://www.egroupware.org/ ) - Groupware software written in PHP.
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* [Horde Groupware ](http://www.horde.org/apps/groupware ) - PHP based collaborative software suite that includes email, calendars, wikis, time tracking and file management.
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* [Kolab ](https://www.kolab.org ) - Another groupware suite.
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* [SOGo ](https://www.sogo.nu/ ) - Collaborative software server with a focus on simplicity and scalability.
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* [Zimbra ](https://www.zimbra.com/community/ ) - Collaborative software suite, that includes an email server and web client.
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## Configuration Management Database
*Configuration management database (CMDB) software.*
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* [i-doit ](http://www.i-doit.org/ ) - Open Source IT Documentation and CMDB.
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* [iTop ](http://www.combodo.com/-Overview-.html ) - Complete open source, ITIL, web based service management tool.
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* [Ralph ](https://github.com/allegro/ralph ) - Asset management, DCIM and CMDB system for large Data Centers as well as smaller LAN networks.
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* [Sicekit ](https://github.com/sicekit/sicekit ) - The systems & infrastructure encyclopaedia toolkit (based on mediawiki).
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* [Clusto ](https://github.com/clusto/clusto ) - 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.
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* [Collins ](http://tumblr.github.io/collins ) - At Tumblr, it's the infrastructure source of truth and knowledge.
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## Configuration Management
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*Configuration management tools.*
* [Ansible ](http://www.ansibleworks.com/ ) - It's written in Python and manages the nodes over SSH.
* [CFEngine ](http://cfengine.com/ ) - Lightweight agent system. Configuration state is specified via a declarative language.
* [Chef ](http://www.opscode.com/chef/ ) - It's written in Ruby and Erlang and uses a pure-Ruby DSL.
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* [Pallet ](http://palletops.com/ ) - Infrastructure definition, configuration and management via a Clojure DSL.
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* [Puppet ](http://puppetlabs.com/ ) - It's written in Ruby and uses Puppet's declarative language or a Ruby DSL.
* [Salt ](http://www.saltstack.com/ ) - It's written in Python.
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* [Slaughter ](http://steve.org.uk/Software/slaughter/ ) - It's written in Perl.
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## Build and software organization tools
*Build and software organization tools.*
* [EasyBuild ](https://easybuild.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ ) - EasyBuild builds software and modulefiles for High Performance Computing (HPC) systems in an efficient way.
* [environment-modules Tcl ](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environment_Modules_%28software%29 ) - .
* [environment-modules Lmod ](https://www.tacc.utexas.edu/research-development/tacc-projects/lmod ) - Lmod is a Lua based module system that easily handles the MODULEPATH Hierarchical problem.
* [environment-modules Tcl/C ](http://modules.sourceforge.net/ ) - The Environment Modules package provides for the dynamic modification of a user's environment via modulefiles.
* [HPCBIOS ](hpcbios.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ ) - HPCBIOS is an effort to setup a common, well-documented and reproducible, environment spanning across multiple HPC systems & sites, *inclusive* of documentation.
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## Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment
*Continuous integration/deployment software.*
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* [Buildbot ](http://buildbot.net/ ) - Python-based toolkit for continuous integration.
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* [Drone ](https://github.com/drone/drone ) - Continuous integration server built on Docker and configured using YAML files.
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* [GitLab CI ](https://www.gitlab.com/gitlab-ci/ ) - Based off of ruby. They also provide GitLab, which manages git repositories.
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* [Go ](http://www.go.cd/ ) - Open source continuous delivery server.
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* [Jenkins ](http://jenkins-ci.org/ ) - An extendable open source continuous integration server.
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## Control Panels
*Web hosting and server control panels*
* [Ajenti ](http://ajenti.org/ ) - Control panel for Linux and BSD.
* [Cockpit ](http://cockpit-project.org/ ) - New multi-server web interface for Linux servers written in C.
* [Feathur ](http://feathur.com ) - VPS Provisioning and Management Software.
* [Froxlor ](http://www.froxlor.org/ ) - Easy to use panel for Linux with Nginx and PHP-FPM support.
* [ISPConfig ](http://www.ispconfig.org ) - Hosting control panel for Linux.
* [Sentora ](http://sentora.org/ ) - Control panel for Linux, BSD, and Windows based on ZPanel.
* [VestaCP ](http://www.vestacp.com/ ) - Hosting panel for Linux but with Nginx.
* [Virtualmin ](http://www.virtualmin.com/ ) - Control panel for Linux based on webmin.
* [Webmin ](http://www.webmin.com/ ) - Linux server control panel.
* [ZPanel ](http://www.zpanelcp.com/ ) - Control panel for Linux, BSD, and Windows.
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## Deployment Automation
*Tools and scripts to support deployments to your servers.*
* [Capistrano ](http://www.capistranorb.com ) - Deploy your application to any number of machines simultaneously, in sequence or as a rolling set via SSH (rake based).
* [Fabric ](http://www.fabfile.org/ ) - Python library and cli tool for streamlining the use of SSH for application deployment or systems administration tasks.
* [Mina ](http://nadarei.co/mina/ ) - Really fast deployer and server automation tool (rake based).
* [Rocketeer ](http://rocketeer.autopergamene.eu/ ) - PHP task runner and deployment tool.
* [Vlad the Deployer ](http://rubyhitsquad.com/Vlad_the_Deployer.html ) - Deployment automation (rake based).
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## Distributed Filesystems
*Network distributed filesystems.*
* [Ceph ](http://ceph.com/ ) - Distributed object store and file system.
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* [DRBD ](http://www.drbd.org/ ) - Distributed Replicated Block Device.
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* [LeoFS ](http://leo-project.net ) - Unstructured object/data storage and a highly available, distributed, eventually consistent storage system.
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* [GlusterFS ](http://www.gluster.org/ ) - Scale-out network-attached storage file system.
* [HDFS ](http://hadoop.apache.org/ ) - Distributed, scalable, and portable file-system written in Java for the Hadoop framework.
* [Lustre ](http://lustre.opensfs.org/ ) - A type of parallel distributed file system, generally used for large-scale cluster computing.
* [MooseFS ](http://www.moosefs.org/ ) - Fault tolerant, network distributed file system.
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* [MogileFS ](http://mogilefs.org/ ) - Application level, network distributed file system.
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* [OpenAFS ](http://www.openafs.org/ ) - Distributed network file system with read-only replicas and multi-OS support.
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* [TahoeLAFS ](https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs ) - secure, decentralized, fault-tolerant, peer-to-peer distributed data store and distributed file system.
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* [XtreemFS ](http://www.xtreemfs.org/ ) - XtreemFS is a fault-tolerant distributed file system for all storage needs.
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## DNS
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*DNS servers.*
* [Bind ](https://www.isc.org/downloads/bind/ ) - The most widely used name server software.
* [djbdns ](http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html ) - A collection of DNS applications, including tinydns.
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* [Designate ](https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Designate ) - DNS REST API that support several DNS servers as its backend.
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* [dnsmasq ](http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/doc.html ) - A lightweight service providing DNS, DHCP and TFTP services to small-scale networks.
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* [Knot ](https://www.knot-dns.cz/ ) - High performance authoritative-only DNS server.
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* [NSD ](http://www.nlnetlabs.nl/projects/nsd/ ) - Authoritative only, high performance, simple name server.
* [PowerDNS ](https://www.powerdns.com/ ) - DNS server with a variety of data storage back-ends and load balancing features.
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* [Unbound ](http://unbound.net/ ) - Validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver.
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* [Yadifa ](http://yadifa.eu/ ) - Lightweight authoritative Name Server with DNSSEC capabilities powering the .eu top-level domain.
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## Editors
*Open source code editors.*
* [Atom ](https://atom.io/ ) - A hackable text editor from Github.
* [Brackets ](http://brackets.io/ ) - Open source code editor for web designers and front-end developers.
* [Eclipse ](http://eclipse.org/ ) - IDE written in Java with an extensible plug-in system.
* [Geany ](http://www.geany.org/ ) - GTK2 text editor.
* [GNU Emacs ](http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ ) - An extensible, customizable text editor-and more.
* [Haroopad ](http://pad.haroopress.com/ ) - Markdown editor with live preview.
* [ICEcoder ](http://icecoder.net ) - Code editor awesomeness, built with common web languages.
* [jotgit ](https://github.com/jdleesmiller/jotgit ) - Git-backed real-time collaborative code editing.
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* [KDevelop] (https://www.kdevelop.org/) - An open source IDE by the people behind KDE.
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* [Light Table ](http://www.lighttable.com/ ) - The next generation code editor.
* [Lime ](http://limetext.org/ ) - Aims to provide an open source solution to Sublime Text
* [TextMate ](https://github.com/textmate/textmate/ ) - A graphical text editor for OS X.
* [Vim ](http://www.vim.org ) - A highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient editing.
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## Identity Management
*LDAP servers and other tools to manage accounts and identities.*
### LDAP
* [389 Directory Server ](http://port389.org ) - Developed by Red Hat.
* [Apache Directory Server ](http://directory.apache.org/ ) - Apache Software Foundation project written in Java.
* [OpenDJ ](http://opendj.forgerock.org/ ) - Fork of OpenDS.
* [OpenDS ](https://opends.java.net/ ) - Another directory server written in Java.
* [OpenLDAP ](http://openldap.org/ ) - Developed by the OpenLDAP Project.
### Tools and web interfaces
* [Fusion Directory ](http://www.fusiondirectory.org ) - Improve the Management of the services and the company directory based on OpenLDAP.
* [FreeIPA ](http://www.freeipa.org/ ) - Security management solution, can manage LDAP, KRB, DNS, sudo, and more
* [LDAP Account Manager (LAM) ](https://www.ldap-account-manager.org/lamcms/ ) - Web frontend for managing entries (e.g. users, groups, DHCP settings) stored in an LDAP directory.
* [Samba ](https://www.samba.org/ ) – Open Source Active Directory and CIFS protocol implementation.
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## IT Asset Management
*IT Assets Management software.*
* [GLPI ](http://www.glpi-project.org/spip.php?lang=en ) - Information Resource-Manager with an additional Administration Interface.
* [OCS Inventory NG ](http://www.ocsinventory-ng.org/en/ ) - Enables users to inventory their IT assets.
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* [RackTables ](http://racktables.org/ ) - Datacenter and server room asset management like document hardware assets, network addresses, space in racks, networks configuration.
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* [Ralph ](https://github.com/allegro/ralph ) - Asset management, DCIM and CMDB system for large Data Centers as well as smaller LAN networks.
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* [Snipe IT ](http://snipeitapp.com/ ) - Asset & license management software.
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## Log Management
*Log management tools: collect, parse, visualize ...*
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* [Elasticsearch ](http://www.elasticsearch.org/ ) - A Lucene Based Document store mainly used for log indexing, storage and analysis.
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* [Fluentd ](http://www.fluentd.org/ ) - Log Collector and Shipper.
* [Flume ](https://flume.apache.org/ ) - Distributed log collection and aggregation system.
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* [Graylog2 ](http://graylog2.org/ ) - Pluggable Log and Event Analysis Server with Alerting options.
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* [Heka ](http://hekad.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ ) - Stream processing system which may be used for log aggregation.
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* [Kibana ](http://www.elasticsearch.org/overview/kibana/ ) - Visualize logs and time-stamped data.
* [Logstash ](http://logstash.net/ ) - Tool for managing events and logs.
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* [Octopussy ](http://www.octopussy.pm ) - Log Management Solution (Visualize / Alert / Report).
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## Mail Clients
* [Claws Mail ](http://www.claws-mail.org/ ) - Old school email client (and news reader), based on GTK+.
* [Mutt ](http://www.mutt.org/ ) - Small but very powerful text-based mail client.
* [Thunderbird ](https://www.mozilla.org/de/thunderbird/ ) - Free email application that's easy to set up and customize.
### Webmail
*Webmail applications.*
* [Mailpile ](https://www.mailpile.is/ ) - A modern, fast web-mail client with user-friendly encryption and privacy features.
* [Roundcube ](http://roundcube.net/ ) - Browser-based IMAP client with an application-like user interface.
* [SquirrelMail ](http://squirrelmail.org ) - Another browser-based IMAP client.
Add a lot of applications
Add Horde - Webmail and groupware client
Add Rainloop - Very nice webmail with IMAP/SMTP Support and multi accounting
Add Modoboa - Modoboa is a mail hosting and management platform including a modern and simplified Web User Interface.
Add Fufix - Fufix is a mailserver installer based on Dovecot, Postfix, Postfixadmin, Nginx, PHP, MySQL and Fail2ban.
Add Stashboard - The open source status page for cloud services and APIs.
Add System Status Dashboard - SSD is a status dashboard designed to provide an easy to understand view into an organization's infrastructure health status.
Add Staytus - Staytus is a complete solution for publishing the latest information about any issues with your web applications, networks or services.
Add LibreMailer - LibreMailer is a modest and simple web based email marketing application.
Add Lewsnetter - E-mail marketing application (create and send e-mail newsletter via SES). Includes subscription management, delivery, bounce and complaint notification, templates, and some stats.
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* [Horde ](http://www.horde.org ) - Webmail and groupware client
* [Rainloop ](http://www.rainloop.net ) - Very nice webmail with IMAP/SMTP Support and multi accounting
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## Mail Servers
*Software for setting up mail servers.*
### MDA (IMAP/POP3)
*Mail Delivery Agents (IMAP/POP3 software).*
* [Courier IMAP/POP3 ](http://www.courier-mta.org/imap/ ) - Fast, scalable, enterprise IMAP and POP3 server.
* [Cyrus IMAP/POP3 ](http://cyrusimap.org/ ) - Intended to be run on sealed servers, where normal users are not permitted to log in.
* [Dovecot ](http://www.dovecot.org/ ) - IMAP and POP3 server written primarily with security in mind.
* [Qpopper ](http://www.eudora.com/products/unsupported/qpopper/ ) - One of the oldest and most popular server implementations of POP3.
### MTA (SMTP)
*Mail Transfer Agents (SMTP servers).*
* [Exim ](http://www.exim.org/ ) - Message transfer agent (MTA) developed at the University of Cambridge.
* [Haraka ](http://haraka.github.io/ ) - A high-performance, pluginable SMTP server written in JavaScript.
* [MailCatcher ](http://mailcatcher.me/ ) - Ruby gem that deploys a simply SMTP MTA gateway that accepts all mail and displays in web interface. Useful for debugging or development.
* [Maildrop ](https://github.com/m242/maildrop ) - Open Source disposable email SMTP server, also useful for development.
* [OpenSMTPD ](https://opensmtpd.org/ ) - Secure SMTP server implementation from the OpenBSD project.
* [Postfix ](http://www.postfix.org/ ) - Fast, easy to administer, and secure Sendmail replacement.
* [Qmail ](http://cr.yp.to/qmail.html ) - Secure Sendmail replacement.
* [Sendmail ](http://www.sendmail.com/sm/open_source/ ) - Message transfer agent (MTA).
### complete solutions
*Software for simple deployment of a mail server, e.g. for inexperienced or impatient admins.*
* [Mail-in-a-Box ](https://mailinabox.email/ ) - Take back control of your email with this easy-to-deploy mail server in a box.
* [iRedMail ](http://www.iredmail.org/ ) - Full-featured mail server solution based on Postfix and Dovecot.
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* [Citadel ](http://www.citadel.org/ ) - Feature packed, easy, versatile, and powerful mail server, thanks to exclusive "rooms" based architecture.
Add a lot of applications
Add Horde - Webmail and groupware client
Add Rainloop - Very nice webmail with IMAP/SMTP Support and multi accounting
Add Modoboa - Modoboa is a mail hosting and management platform including a modern and simplified Web User Interface.
Add Fufix - Fufix is a mailserver installer based on Dovecot, Postfix, Postfixadmin, Nginx, PHP, MySQL and Fail2ban.
Add Stashboard - The open source status page for cloud services and APIs.
Add System Status Dashboard - SSD is a status dashboard designed to provide an easy to understand view into an organization's infrastructure health status.
Add Staytus - Staytus is a complete solution for publishing the latest information about any issues with your web applications, networks or services.
Add LibreMailer - LibreMailer is a modest and simple web based email marketing application.
Add Lewsnetter - E-mail marketing application (create and send e-mail newsletter via SES). Includes subscription management, delivery, bounce and complaint notification, templates, and some stats.
2015-05-28 13:44:54 +00:00
* [Modoboa ](http://modoboa.org/en/ ) - Modoboa is a mail hosting and management platform including a modern and simplified Web User Interface.
* [Fufix ](https://www.debinux.de/fufix/ ) - Fufix is a mailserver installer based on Dovecot, Postfix, Postfixadmin, Nginx, PHP, MySQL and Fail2ban.
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## Monitoring
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*Monitoring software.*
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* [Alerta ](https://github.com/guardian/alerta ) - Distributed, scaleable and flexible monitoring system.
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* [Cacti ](http://www.cacti.net ) - Web-based network monitoring and graphing tool.
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* [Cabot ](http://cabotapp.com/ ) - Monitoring and alerts, similar to PagerDuty.
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* [check_mk ](http://mathias-kettner.com/check_mk.html ) - Collection of extensions for Nagios.
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* [Dash ](https://github.com/afaqurk/linux-dash ) - A low-overhead monitoring web dashboard for a GNU/Linux machine.
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* [Flapjack ](http://flapjack.io/ ) - Monitoring notification routing & event processing system.
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* [Icinga ](https://www.icinga.org/ ) - Fork of Nagios.
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* [LibreNMS ](https://github.com/librenms/librenms/ ) - fork of Observium.
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* [Monit ](http://mmonit.com/monit/#home ) - Small Open Source utility for managing and monitoring Unix systems.
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* [Munin ](http://munin-monitoring.org/ ) - Networked resource monitoring tool.
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* [Naemon ](http://www.naemon.org/ ) - Network monitoring tool based on the Nagios 4 core with performance enhancements and new features.
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* [Nagios ](http://www.nagios.org/ ) - Computer system, network and infrastructure monitoring software application.
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* [Node-Bell ](https://github.com/eleme/node-bell ) - Real-time anomalies detection for periodic time series, metrics monitor.
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* [Observium ](http://www.observium.org/ ) - SNMP monitoring for servers and networking devices. Runs on linux.
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* [OMD ](http://omdistro.org/ ) - The Open Monitoring Distribution.
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* [Riemann ](http://riemann.io/ ) - Flexible and fast events processor allowing complex events/metrics analysis.
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* [Sensu ](http://sensuapp.org/ ) - Open source monitoring framework.
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* [Sentry ](https://getsentry.com/ ) - Application monitoring, event logging and aggregation.
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* [Shinken ](http://www.shinken-monitoring.org/ ) - Another monitoring framework.
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* [Thruk ](http://www.thruk.org/ ) - Multibackend monitoring web interface with support for Naemon, Nagios, Icinga and Shinken.
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* [Xymon ](http://www.xymon.com/ ) - Network monitoring inspired by Big Brother.
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* [Zabbix ](http://www.zabbix.com/ ) - Enterprise-class software for monitoring of networks and applications.
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* [Zenoss ](http://community.zenoss.org ) - Application, server, and network management platform based on Zope.
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## Metric & Metric Collection
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*Metric gathering and display software.*
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* [Collectd ](http://collectd.org/ ) - System statistic collection daemon.
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* [Collectl ](http://collectl.sourceforge.net/ ) - High precision system performance metrics collecting tool.
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* [Dashing ](http://dashing.io/ ) - Ruby gem that allows for rapid statistical dashboard development. An all HTML5 approach allows for big screen displays in data centers or conference rooms.
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* [Diamond ](https://github.com/BrightcoveOS/Diamond ) - Python based statistic collection daemon.
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* [Facette ](http://facette.io ) - Time series data visualization and graphing software written in Go.
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* [Freeboard ](https://github.com/Freeboard/freeboard ) - A damn-sexy front-end real-time dashboard. Transforms raw JSON into delicious UI.
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* [Ganglia ](http://ganglia.sourceforge.net/ ) - High performance, scalable RRD based monitoring for grids and/or clusters of servers. Compatible with Graphite using a single collection process.
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* [Grafana ](http://grafana.org/ ) - A Graphite & InfluxDB Dashboard and Graph Editor.
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* [Graphite ](http://graphite.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ ) - Open source scalable graphing server.
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* [InfluxDB ](http://influxdb.com/ ) - Open source distributed time series database with no external dependencies.
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* [KairosDB ](https://code.google.com/p/kairosdb/ ) - Fast distributed scalable time series database, fork of OpenTSDB 1.x.
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* [OpenTSDB ](http://opentsdb.net/ ) - Store and server massive amounts of time series data without losing granularity.
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* [Packetbeat ](http://packetbeat.com/ ) - Captures network traffic and displays it in a custom Kibana dashboard for easy viewing.
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* [Prometheus ](http://prometheus.io/ ) - An open-source service monitoring system and time series database.
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* [RRDtool ](http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/ ) - Open source industry standard, high performance data logging and graphing system for time series data.
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* [Statsd ](https://github.com/etsy/statsd/ ) - Application statistic listener.
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## Network Configuration Management
*Network configuration management tools.*
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* [GestióIP ](http://www.gestioip.net/ ) - An automated web based IPv4/IPv6 IP Address Management tool.
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* [Oxidized ](https://github.com/ytti/oxidized ) - A modern take on network device configuration monitoring with web interface and GIT storage.
* [RANCID ](http://www.shrubbery.net/rancid/ ) - Monitors network device's configuration and maintain history of changes.
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* [rConfig ](http://www.rconfig.com/ ) - Another network device configuration management tool.
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* [trigger ](https://github.com/trigger/trigger ) - Robust network automation toolkit written in Python.
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## Newsletters
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*Newsletter software.*
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* [DadaMail ](http://dadamailproject.com/ ) - Mailing List Manager, written in Perl.
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* [phpList ](http://www.phplist.com/ ) - Newsletter manager written in PHP.
Add a lot of applications
Add Horde - Webmail and groupware client
Add Rainloop - Very nice webmail with IMAP/SMTP Support and multi accounting
Add Modoboa - Modoboa is a mail hosting and management platform including a modern and simplified Web User Interface.
Add Fufix - Fufix is a mailserver installer based on Dovecot, Postfix, Postfixadmin, Nginx, PHP, MySQL and Fail2ban.
Add Stashboard - The open source status page for cloud services and APIs.
Add System Status Dashboard - SSD is a status dashboard designed to provide an easy to understand view into an organization's infrastructure health status.
Add Staytus - Staytus is a complete solution for publishing the latest information about any issues with your web applications, networks or services.
Add LibreMailer - LibreMailer is a modest and simple web based email marketing application.
Add Lewsnetter - E-mail marketing application (create and send e-mail newsletter via SES). Includes subscription management, delivery, bounce and complaint notification, templates, and some stats.
2015-05-28 13:44:54 +00:00
* [LibreMailer ](https://github.com/averna-syd/LibreMailer ) - Libre Mailer is a modest and simple web based email marketing application.
* [Lewsnetter ](https://github.com/bborn/lewsnetter ) - E-mail marketing application (create and send e-mail newsletter via SES). Includes subscription management, delivery, bounce and complaint notification, templates, and some stats.
2014-02-09 23:50:54 +00:00
2014-05-22 23:48:18 +00:00
## NoSQL
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*NoSQL databases.*
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* Column-Family
* [Apache HBase ](http://hbase.apache.org/ ) - Hadoop database, a distributed, big data store.
* [Cassandra ](http://cassandra.apache.org/ ) - Distributed DBMS designed to handle large amounts of data across many servers.
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* [Hypertable ](http://hypertable.org/ ) - C++ based BigTable-like DBMS, communicates through Thrift and runs either as stand-alone or on distributed FS such as Hadoop.
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* Document Store
* [CouchDB ](http://couchdb.apache.org/ ) - Ease of use, with multi-master replication document-oriented database system.
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* [ElasticSearch ](http://www.elasticsearch.org/ ) - Java based database, popular with log aggregation, and email archiving projects.
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* [MongoDB ](http://www.mongodb.org/ ) - Another document-oriented database system.
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* [RavenDB ](http://ravendb.net/ ) - Document based database with ACID/Transactional features.
* [RethinkDB ](http://www.rethinkdb.com/ ) - Open source distributed document store database, focuses on JSON.
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* Graph
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* [FlockDB ](https://github.com/twitter/flockdb ) - Twitter's distributed, fault-tolerant graph database.
* [Neo4j ](http://www.neo4j.org/ ) - Open source graph database.
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* Key-Value
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* [LevelDB ](https://github.com/google/leveldb ) - Google's high performance key/value database.
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* [Redis ](http://redis.io/ ) - Networked, in-memory, key-value data store with optional durability.
* [Riak ](http://basho.com/riak/ ) - Another fault-tolerant key-value NoSQL database.
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Comparison of NoSQL servers: http://kkovacs.eu/cassandra-vs-mongodb-vs-couchdb-vs-redis
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## Packaging
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* [fpm ](https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm ) - Versatile multi format package creator.
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* [omnibus-ruby ](https://github.com/opscode/omnibus-ruby ) - Full stack, cross distro packaging software (Ruby).
* [packman ](http://packman.readthedocs.org ) - Full stack, cross distro packaging software (Python).
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* [tito ](https://github.com/dgoodwin/tito ) - Builds RPMs for git-based projects.
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## Queuing
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* [ActiveMQ ](https://activemq.apache.org/ ) - Open source java message broker.
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* [BeanstalkD ](http://kr.github.io/beanstalkd/ ) - A simple, fast work queue.
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* [Gearman ](http://gearman.org/ ) - Fast multi-language queuing/job processing platform.
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* [Kafka ](http://kafka.apache.org ) - Extremely high performance publish/subscribe message system.
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* [NSQ ](http://nsq.io/ ) - A realtime distributed messaging platform.
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* [RabbitMQ ](http://www.rabbitmq.com/ ) - Robust, fully featured, cross distro queuing system.
* [ZeroMQ ](http://zeromq.org/ ) - Lightweight queuing system.
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## RDBMS
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*Relational DBMS.*
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* [Firebird ](http://www.firebirdsql.org/ ) - True universal open source database.
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* [Galera ](http://galeracluster.com/ ) - 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.
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* [MariaDB ](https://mariadb.org/ ) - Community-developed fork of the MySQL.
* [MySQL ](http://dev.mysql.com/ ) - Most popular RDBMS server.
* [Percona Server ](http://www.percona.com/software ) - Enhanced, drop-in MySQL replacement.
* [PostgreSQL ](http://www.postgresql.org/ ) - Object-relational database management system (ORDBMS).
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* [PostgreSQL-XL ](http://www.postgres-xl.org/ ) - Scalable Open Source PostgreSQL-based database cluster.
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* [SQLite ](http://sqlite.org/ ) - Library that implements a self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional SQL DBS.
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## Security
*Security tools.*
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* [Blackbox ](https://github.com/StackExchange/blackbox ) - Safely store secrets in Git/Mercurial. Provides tooling to automatically encrypt secrets like passwords.
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* [Bro ](http://www.bro.org ) - Bro is a powerful framework for network analysis and security monitoring.
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* [Denyhosts ](http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/ ) - Thwart SSH dictionary based attacks and brute force attacks.
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* [Fail2Ban ](http://www.fail2ban.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page ) - Scans log files and takes action on IPs that show malicious behavior.
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* [fwknop ](https://www.cipherdyne.org/fwknop/ ) - Protects ports via Single Packet Authorization in your firewall.
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* [Glastopf ](http://glastopf.org/ ) - A low-interaction web application honeypot to emulate vulnerabilities and gather attack data.
* [Kippo ](https://github.com/desaster/kippo ) - A medium-interaction SSH honeypot, mostly used as a standalone SSH daemon with a configurable Filesystem sandbox.
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* [Linux Malware Detect ](https://www.rfxn.com/projects/linux-malware-detect/ ) - A malware scanner for Linux designed around the threats faced in shared hosted environments.
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* [OSSEC ](http://ossec.net ) - OSSEC is a HIDS that performs log analysis, FIM, rootkit detection, and much more.
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* [OSQuery ](https://osquery.io/ ) - Query your servers status and info using a SQL like interface.
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* [pfSense ](https://www.pfsense.org/ ) - Firewall and Router FreeBSD distribution.
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* [Snort ](https://www.snort.org/ ) - Snort is a free and open source network intrusion prevention system (NIPS) and network intrusion detection system (NIDS) created by Martin Roesch in 1998.
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* [SpamAssassin ](https://spamassassin.apache.org/ ) - A powerful and popular email spam filter employing a variety of detection technique.
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## Service Discovery
* [Consul ](http://www.consul.io/ ) - Consul is a tool for service discovery, monitoring and configuration.
* [Doozerd ](https://github.com/ha/doozerd ) - Doozer is a highly-available, completely consistent store for small amounts of extremely important data.
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* [etcd ](https://github.com/coreos/etcd ) - distributed K/V-Store, authenticating via SSL PKI and a REST HTTP Api for shared configuration and service discovery.
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* [ZooKeeper ](http://zookeeper.apache.org/ ) - ZooKeeper is a centralized service for maintaining configuration information, naming, providing distributed synchronization, and providing group services.
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## Software Containers
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*Operating system– level virtualization.*
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* [Bitnami ](https://bitnami.com/ ) - Produces open source installers or software packages for web applications and development stacks as well as virtual appliances.
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* [Docker ](http://www.docker.com/ ) - Open platform for developers and sysadmins to build, ship, and run distributed applications.
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* [LXC ](https://linuxcontainers.org/lxc/ ) - Userspace interface for the Linux kernel containment features.
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* [OpenVZ ](http://openvz.org ) - Container-based virtualization for Linux.
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## SSH
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*SSH tools.*
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* [Advanced SSH config ](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/advanced-ssh-config/ ) - Enhances ssh_config file capabilities, completely transparent.
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* [autossh ](http://www.harding.motd.ca/autossh/ ) - Automatically respawn ssh session after network interruption.
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* [Cluster SSH ](http://sourceforge.net/projects/clusterssh/ ) - Controls a number of xterm windows via a single graphical console.
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* [DSH ](http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/software/dsh.html.en ) - Dancer's shell / distributed shell - Wrapper for executing multiple remote shell commands from one command line.
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* [Mosh ](http://mosh.mit.edu/ ) - The mobile shell.
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* [parallel-ssh ](http://code.google.com/p/parallel-ssh/ ) - Provides parallel versions of OpenSSH and related tools.
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* [ssh-cert-authority ](https://github.com/cloudtools/ssh-cert-authority ) - A democratic SSH certificate authority.
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* [ssh-ca ](https://github.com/cloudtools/ssh-ca/ ) - Allows giving ssh access to servers without putting a users key on the server, as well as expiring access.
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* [SSH Power Tool ](http://code.google.com/p/sshpt/ ) - Execute commands and upload files to many servers simultaneously without using pre-shared keys.
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* [sshrc ](https://github.com/Russell91/sshrc ) - sources ~/.sshrc on your local computer after logging in remotely.
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* [stormssh ](http://stormssh.readthedocs.org ) - A command line tool to manage SSH connections.
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## Statistics
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*Analytics software.*
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* [Analog ](http://www.analog.cx/ ) - Logfile Analyser.
* [AWStats ](http://www.awstats.org/ ) - Generates web, streaming, ftp or mail server statistics graphically.
* [GoAccess ](http://goaccess.io/ ) - Real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal.
* [Open Web Analytics ](http://www.openwebanalytics.com/ ) - Add web analytics to websites using JS, PHP or REST APIs.
* [Piwik ](http://piwik.org/ ) - Web analytics application.
* [Webalizer ](http://www.webalizer.org/ ) - Fast web server log file analysis.
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## Status Pages
* [Cachet ](https://cachethq.io ) - An open source status page system written in PHP.
Add a lot of applications
Add Horde - Webmail and groupware client
Add Rainloop - Very nice webmail with IMAP/SMTP Support and multi accounting
Add Modoboa - Modoboa is a mail hosting and management platform including a modern and simplified Web User Interface.
Add Fufix - Fufix is a mailserver installer based on Dovecot, Postfix, Postfixadmin, Nginx, PHP, MySQL and Fail2ban.
Add Stashboard - The open source status page for cloud services and APIs.
Add System Status Dashboard - SSD is a status dashboard designed to provide an easy to understand view into an organization's infrastructure health status.
Add Staytus - Staytus is a complete solution for publishing the latest information about any issues with your web applications, networks or services.
Add LibreMailer - LibreMailer is a modest and simple web based email marketing application.
Add Lewsnetter - E-mail marketing application (create and send e-mail newsletter via SES). Includes subscription management, delivery, bounce and complaint notification, templates, and some stats.
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* [Stashboard ](http://www.stashboard.org ) - The open source status page for cloud services and APIs.
* [System Status Dashboard (SSD) ](http://www.system-status-dashboard.com/ ) - SSD is a status dashboard designed to provide an easy to understand view into an organization's infrastructure health status.
* [Staytus ](http://staytus.co/ ) - Staytus is a complete solution for publishing the latest information about any issues with your web applications, networks or services.
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## Ticketing systems
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*Web-based ticketing system.*
* [Bugzilla ](http://www.bugzilla.org/ ) - General-purpose bugtracker and testing tool originally developed and used by the Mozilla project.
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* [Cerb ](http://www.cerberusweb.com/ ) - Group-based e-mail management project.
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* [Flyspray ](http://flyspray.org ) - Web-based bug tracking system written in PHP.
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* [MantisBT ](http://www.mantisbt.org/ ) - Web-based bug tracking system.
* [osTicket ](http://osticket.com/ ) - Simple support ticket system.
* [OTRS ](http://www.otrs.com/ ) - Trouble ticket system for assigning tickets to incoming queries and tracking further communications.
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* [Request Tracker ](http://www.bestpractical.com/rt/ ) - Ticket-tracking system written in Perl.
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* [TheBugGenie ](http://www.thebuggenie.com ) - Ticket system with extensive user rights system.
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## Troubleshooting
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*Troubleshooting Tools.*
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* [mitmproxy ](http://mitmproxy.org/ ) - A Python tool used for intercepting, viewing and modifying network traffic. Invaluable in troubleshooting certain problems.
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* [Sysdig ](http://www.sysdig.org/ ) - Capture system state and activity from a running Linux instance, then save, filter and analyze.
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* [Trinity Rescue Kit ](http://trinityhome.org ) - Linux Live CD for general computer troubleshooting.
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* [Wireshark ](http://www.wireshark.org/ ) - The world's foremost network protocol analyzer.
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## Project Management
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*Web-based project management and bug tracking systems.*
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* [ChiliProject ](https://www.chiliproject.org ) - Fork of Redmine.
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* [GitBucket ](https://github.com/takezoe/gitbucket ) Clone of GitHub written in Scala; single jar install.
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* [GitLab ](https://www.gitlab.com/ ) - Clone of GitHub written in Ruby.
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* [Gogs ](http://gogs.io/ ) - Self-hosted Git service written in Go.
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* [OpenProject ](https://www.openproject.org ) - Project collaboration with open source.
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* [Phabricator ](http://phabricator.org/ ) Written in PHP.
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* [Redmine ](http://www.redmine.org/ ) - Written in ruby on rails.
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* [Taiga ](https://taiga.io/ ) - Agile, Free, Open Source Project Management Tool based on the Kanban and Scrum methods.
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* [The Bug Genie ](http://www.thebuggenie.com/ ) - Written in PHP.
* [Trac ](http://trac.edgewall.org/ ) - Written in python.
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## Version control
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*Software versioning and revision control.*
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* [Fossil ](http://www.fossil-scm.org/ ) - Distributed version control with built-in wiki and bug tracking.
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* [Git ](http://git-scm.com/ ) - Distributed revision control and source code management (SCM) with an emphasis on speed.
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* [GNU Bazaar ](http://bazaar.canonical.com/ ) - Distributed revision control system sponsored by Canonical.
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* [Mercurial ](http://mercurial.selenic.com/ ) - Another distributed revision control.
* [Subversion ](http://subversion.apache.org/ ) - Client-server revision control system.
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## Virtualization
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*Virtualization software.*
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* [Archipel ](http://archipelproject.org/ ) - XMPP based virtualization management platform.
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* [Ganeti ](https://code.google.com/p/ganeti/ ) - Cluster virtual server management software tool built on top of KVM and Xen.
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* [KVM ](http://www.linux-kvm.org ) - Linux kernel virtualization infrastructure.
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* [OpenNebula ](http://opennebula.org/ ) - Flexible enterprise cloud made simple.
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* [oVirt ](http://www.ovirt.org/ ) - Manages virtual machines, storage and virtual networks.
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* [Packer ](http://www.packer.io/ ) - A tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration.
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* [Proxmox VE ](https://www.proxmox.com/proxmox-ve ) - Complete open source virtualization management solution.
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* [QEMU ](http://www.qemu.org/ ) - QEMU is a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer.
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* [Vagrant ](https://www.vagrantup.com/ ) - Tool for building complete development environments.
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* [VirtualBox ](https://www.virtualbox.org/ ) - Virtualization product from Oracle Corporation.
* [Xen ](http://www.xenproject.org/ ) - Virtual machine monitor for 32/64 bit Intel / AMD (IA 64) and PowerPC 970 architectures.
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## VPN
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*VPN software.*
* [OpenVPN ](https://community.openvpn.net ) - Uses a custom security protocol that utilizes SSL/TLS for key exchange.
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* [Pritunl ](http://pritunl.com/ ) - OpenVPN based solution. Easy to set up.
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* [SoftEther ](https://www.softether.org/ ) - Multi-protocol software VPN with advanced features
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* [sshuttle ](https://github.com/apenwarr/sshuttle ) - Poor man's VPN.
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* [strongSwan ](http://www.strongswan.org/ ) - Complete IPsec implementation for Linux.
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* [tinc ](http://www.tinc-vpn.org/ ) - Distributed p2p VPN.
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## XMPP
*XMPP servers.*
* [ejabberd ](http://www.ejabberd.im/ ) - XMPP instant messaging server written in Erlang/OTP.
* [Metronome IM ](http://www.lightwitch.org/metronome ) - Fork of Prosody IM.
* [MongooseIM ](https://www.erlang-solutions.com/products/mongooseim-massively-scalable-ejabberd-platform ) - Fork of ejabberd.
* [Openfire ](http://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/openfire/ ) - Real time collaboration (RTC) server.
* [Prosody IM ](http://prosody.im/ ) - XMPP server written in Lua.
* [Tigase ](https://projects.tigase.org/projects/tigase-server ) - XMPP server implementation in Java.
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*XMPP Web Clients*
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* [Candy ](http://candy-chat.github.io/candy/ ) - Multi user XMPP client written in Javascript.
* [Kaiwa ](http://getkaiwa.com/ ) - Web based chat client in the style of common paid alternatives.
* [Lets-Chat ](http://sdelements.github.io/lets-chat/ ) - A self hosted chat suite written in Node.
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## Web
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*Web servers.*
* [Apache ](http://httpd.apache.org/ ) - Most popular web server.
* [Cherokee ](http://cherokee-project.com/ ) - Lightweight, high-performance web server/reverse proxy.
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* [Lighttpd ](http://www.lighttpd.net/ ) - Web server more optimized for speed-critical environments.
* [Nginx ](http://nginx.org/ ) - Reverse proxy, load balancer, HTTP cache, and web server.
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* [uWSGI ](https://github.com/unbit/uwsgi/ ) - The uWSGI project aims at developing a full stack for building hosting services.
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*Web Performance*
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* [HAProxy ](http://www.haproxy.org/ ) - Software based load Balancing, SSL offloading and performance optimization, compression, and general web routing.
* [Varnish ](https://www.varnish-cache.org/ ) - HTTP based web application accelerator focusing on optimizing caching and compression.
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## Wiki Software
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* [DokuWiki ](https://www.dokuwiki.org/dokuwiki ) - Simple to use and highly versatile wiki that doesn't require a database.
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* [Gollum ](https://github.com/gollum/gollum ) - A simple, Git-powered wiki with a sweet API and local frontend.
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* [ikiwiki ](http://ikiwiki.info/ ) - A wiki compiler.
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* [MDwiki ](http://dynalon.github.io/mdwiki/#!index.md ) - Wiki completely built in HTML5/Javascript and runs 100% on the client
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* [Mediawiki ](http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki ) - Used to power Wikipedia.
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* [MoinMoin ](http://moinmo.in/ ) - An advanced, easy to use and extensible WikiEngine with a large community of users.
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* [Ōlelo Wiki ](https://github.com/minad/olelo ) - A a wiki that stores pages in a Git repository.
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* [TiddlyWiki ](http://tiddlywiki.com ) - Complete interactive wiki in JavaScript.
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# Resources
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Various resources, such as books, websites and articles, for improving your skills and knowledge.
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## Blogs
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* [Code as Craft ](http://codeascraft.com/ ) - Etsy's Ops blog, lots of technical posts.
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* [DevOpsGuys ](http://blog.devopsguys.com/ ) - Devops consultants who blog about operations.
* [Rackspace Developers ](http://developer.rackspace.com/blog/ ) - Slightly biased blog with lots of Devops Topics.
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## Books
*Sysadmin related books.*
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* [The Linux Command Line ](http://linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php ) - A book about the Linux command line by William Shotts.
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* [The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win ](http://itrevolution.com/books/phoenix-project-devops-book/ ) - How DevOps techniques can fix the problems that happen in IT organizations.
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* [The Practice of System and Network Administration ](http://everythingsysadmin.com/books.html ) - The first and second editions describes the best practices of system and network administration, independent of specific platforms or technologies.
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* [The Visible Ops Handbook: Implementing ITIL in 4 Practical and Auditable Steps ](http://www.itpi.org/the-visible-ops-handbook-review.html ) - Is a methodology designed to jumpstart implementation of controls and process improvement.
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* [UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook ](http://www.admin.com/ ) - Approaches system administration from a practical perspective.
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## Communities / Forums
*For the social people.*
* [ArsTechnica OpenForum ](http://arstechnica.com/civis/ ) – IT Forum which is attached to a large news site.
* [Reddit ](https://www.reddit.com ) - Really, really large bulletin board system.
* [/r/Linux ](https://www.reddit.com/r/linux ) - News and information about Linux.
* [/r/LinuxQuestions ](https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions )
* [/r/SysAdmin ](https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/ )
* [Spiceworks Community ](https://community.spiceworks.com/start ) – General enterprise IT news and small articles.
* [StackExchange Network ](https://stackexchange.com/sites#technology ) – Q& A communities.
* [Server Fault ](https://serverfault.com/ ) – StackExchange community for system and network administrators.
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## Newsletters
* [Servers for Hackers ](http://serversforhackers.com/ ) - Newsletter for programmers who find themselves needing to know their way around a server.
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* [Web Operations Weekly ](http://webopsweekly.com/ ) - A weekly newsletter on Web operations, infrastructure, performance, and tooling, from the browser down to the metal.
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## Repositories
*Software package repositories.*
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* [AlternativeTo ](http://alternativeto.net ) - Find alternatives to software you know and discover new software.
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### Debian-based distributions
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* [Dotdeb ](http://www.dotdeb.org/ ) - Repository with LAMP updated packages for Debian.
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### RPM-based distributions
* [ElRepo ](http://elrepo.org/tiki/tiki-index.php ) - Community Repo for Enterprise Linux (RHEL, CentOS, etc).
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* [EPEL ](https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL ) - Repository for RHEL and compatibles (CentOS, Scientific Linux).
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* [Remi ](http://rpms.famillecollet.com/ ) - Repository with LAMP updated packages for RHEL/Centos/Fedora.
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* [Software Collections ](https://www.softwarecollections.org ) - Community Release of [Red Hat Software Collections ](https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Software_Collections/ ). Provides updated packages of Ruby, Python, etc. for CentOS/Scientific Linux 6.x.
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## Websites
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*Useful sysadmin related websites.*
* [Ops School ](http://www.opsschool.org ) - Comprehensive program that will help you learn to be an operations engineer.
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* [Digital Ocean Tutorials ](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials ) - A surprisingly vast resource for getting the basics of certain applications, tools, or even systems administration topics.
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## Wikis
*Useful Wikis for Sysadmins – not to be confused with Wiki software.*
* [ArchWiki ](https://wiki.archlinux.org/ ) – Arch Linux Wiki which has really nice written articles valid for other distros.
* [Gentoo Wiki ](https://wiki.gentoo.org/ ) - Gentoo Linux Wiki with a lot in-detail description of Linux components.
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