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# Awesome Sysadmin
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A curated list of amazingly awesome open source sysadmin resources inspired by [Awesome PHP ](https://github.com/ziadoz/awesome-php )
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* [Awesome Sysadmin ](#awesome-sysadmin )
* [Backups ](#backups )
* [Cloning ](#cloning )
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* [Cloud Computing ](#cloud-computing )
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* [Cloud Storage ](#cloud-storage )
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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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* [Distributed Filesystems ](#distributed-filesystems )
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* [DNS ](#dns )
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* [Hosting Control Panels ](#hosting-control-panels )
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* [IMAP/POP3 ](#imappop3 )
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* [IT Asset Management ](#it-asset-management )
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* [LDAP ](#ldap )
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* [Log Management ](#log-management )
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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 )
* [RDBMS ](#rdbms )
* [SMTP ](#smtp )
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* [Software Containers ](#software-containers )
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* [SSH ](#ssh )
* [Statistics ](#statistics )
* [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 )
* [Webmails ](#webmails )
* [Wikis ](#wikis )
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* [Resources ](#resources )
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* [Blogs ](#blogs )
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* [Books ](#books )
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* [Editors ](#editors )
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* [Repositories ](#repositories )
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* [Websites ](#websites )
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* [Contributing ](#contributing )
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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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* [Bacula ](http://www.bacula.org ) - Another Client-server model 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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* [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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* [Lsyncd ](https://github.com/axkibe/lsyncd ) - Watches a local directory trees for changes, and then spawns a process to synchronize the changes. Uses 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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* [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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## 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
* [CloudStack ](http://cloudstack.apache.org/ ) - Cloud computing software for creating, managing, and deploying infrastructure cloud services.
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* [Eucalyptus ](https://www.eucalyptus.com/ ) - Open source private cloud software with AWS compatibility.
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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.
* [Cobbler ](http://www.cobblerd.org/ ) - Cobbler is a Linux installation server that allows for rapid setup of network installation environments.
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* [Mesos ](http://mesos.apache.org/ ) - Develop and run resource-efficient distributed systems.
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## Cloud Orchestration
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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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* [Rundeck ](http://rundeck.org/ ) - Simple orchestration tool.
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* [Salt ](http://www.saltstack.com/ ) - It's 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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* [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 distrobution of data.
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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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* [Kolab ](https://www.kolab.org ) - Another groupware suite.
* [SOGo ](https://www.sogo.nu/ ) - Collaborative software server with a focus on simplicity and scalability.
* [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.
* [iTop ](http://www.combodo.com/-Overview-.html ) - A 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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* [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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## 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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* [Fabric ](http://www.fabfile.org/ ) - Python library and cli tool for streamlining the use of SSH for application deployment or systems administration tasks.
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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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## 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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* [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.thoughtworks.com/products/go-continuous-delivery ) - Open source agile build and release management software.
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* [Jenkins ](http://jenkins-ci.org/ ) - An extendable open source continuous integration server.
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* [Vlad the Deployer ](http://rubyhitsquad.com/Vlad_the_Deployer.html ) - Deployment automation.
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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/ ) - Disributed Replicated Block Device.
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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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* [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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* [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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## Hosting Control Panels
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*Web hosting control panels*
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* [Ajenti ](http://ajenti.org/ ) - Control panel for Linux and BSD.
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* [Feathur ](http://feathur.com ) - VPS Provisioning and Management Software.
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* [ISPConfig ](http://www.ispconfig.org ) - Hosting control panel for Linux.
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* [VestaCP ](http://www.vestacp.com/ ) - Hosting panel for Linux but with Nginx.
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* [Virtualmin ](http://www.virtualmin.com/ ) - Control panel for Linux based on webmin.
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* [ZPanel ](http://www.zpanelcp.com/ ) - Control panel for Linux, BSD, and Windows.
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## IMAP/POP3
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*IMAP/POP3 mail servers.*
* [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.
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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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* [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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## LDAP
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*LDAP servers.*
* [389 Directory Server ](http://port389.org ) - Developed by Red Hat.
* [Apache Directory Server ](http://directory.apache.org/ ) - Apache Software Foundation project written in Java.
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* [Fusion Directory ](http://www.fusiondirectory.org ) - Improve the Management of the services and the company directory based on OpenLDAP.
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* [OpenDJ ](http://opendj.forgerock.org/ ) - Fork of OpenDS.
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* [OpenDS ](https://opends.java.net/ ) - Another directory server written in Java.
* [OpenLDAP ](http://openldap.org/ ) - Developed by the OpenLDAP Project.
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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
* [Graylog2 ](http://graylog2.org/ ) - Pluggable Log and Event Analysis Server with Alerting options.
* [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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* [Heka] (https://github.com/mozilla-services/heka) - Data collection and processing made easy
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## Monitoring
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*Monitoring software.*
* [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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* [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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* [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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* [Opsview ](http://www.opsview.com/solutions/core ) - Based on Nagios 4, Opsview Core is ideal for small IT and test environments.
* [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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* [Shinken ](http://www.shinken-monitoring.org/ ) - Another monitoring framework.
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* [Thruk ](http://www.thruk.org/ ) - Multibackend monitoring webinterface with support for Naemon, Nagios, Icinga and Shinken.
* [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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* [Grafana ](http://grafana.org/ ) - A Graphite & InfluxDB Dashboard and Graph Editor.
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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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* [Graphite ](http://graphite.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ ) - Open source scaleable graphing server.
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* [InfluxDB ](http://influxdb.com/ ) - Open source distributed time series database with no external dependencies.
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* [OpenTSDB ](http://opentsdb.net/ ) - Store and server massive amounts of time series data without losing granularity.
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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.*
* [RANCID ](http://www.shrubbery.net/rancid/ ) - Monitors network device's configurarion and maintain history of changes.
* [rConfig ](http://www.rconfig.com/ ) - Another network device configuration management tool.
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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.
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## 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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* 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://code.google.com/p/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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## Queuing
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* [BeanstalkD ](http://kr.github.io/beanstalkd/ ) - A simple, fast work queue.
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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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## SMTP
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*SMTP servers.*
* [Exim ](http://www.exim.org/ ) - Message transfer agent (MTA) developed at the University of Cambridge.
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* [Haraka ](http://haraka.github.io/ ) - A high-performance, pluginable SMTP server written in JavaScript.
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* [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.
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* [OpenSMTPD ](https://opensmtpd.org/ ) - Secure SMTP server implementation from the OpenBSD project.
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* [Postfix ](http://www.postfix.org/ ) - Fast, easy to administer, and secure Sendmail replacement.
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* [Qmail ](http://cr.yp.to/qmail.html ) - Secure Sendmail replacement.
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* [Sendmail ](http://www.sendmail.com/sm/open_source/ ) - Message transfer agent (MTA).
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## Software Containers
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*Operating system– level virtualization.*
* [Docker ](http://www.docker.com/ ) - Open platform for developers and sysadmins to build, ship, and run distributed applications.
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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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* [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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* [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.
* [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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## Statistics
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*Analytics software.*
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* [Analog ](http://www.analog.cx/ ) - The most popular logfile analyser in the world.
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* [Piwik ](http://piwik.org/ ) - Free and open source web analytics application.
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* [Webalizer ](http://www.webalizer.org/ ) - Fast, free web server log file analysis program.
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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/ ) - A group-based e-mail management project built with a commercial open source license.
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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/ ) - Another web-based bug tracking system.
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* [osTicket ](http://osticket.com/ ) - Open source support ticket system.
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* [Otrs ](http://www.otrs.com/ ) - A free and open-source trouble ticket system software package that a company, organization, or other entity can use to assign tickets to incoming queries and track further communications about them.
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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 ) - Open source ticket system with extremely complete users rights granularity.
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## Troubleshooting
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*Troubleshooting Tools.*
* [Sysdig ](http://www.sysdig.org/ ) - Capture system state and activity from a running Linux instance, then save, filter and analyze.
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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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* [GitLab ](https://www.gitlab.com/ ) - Clone of GitHub written in ruby.
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* [Gogs ](http://gogs.io/ ) - Written in Go.
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* [Redmine ](http://www.redmine.org/ ) - Written in ruby on rails.
* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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## Webmails
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*Webmail applications.*
* [RainLoop ](http://rainloop.net/ ) - Simple, modern & fast web-based IMAP client.
* [Roundcube ](http://roundcube.net/ ) - Browser-based IMAP client with an application-like user interface.
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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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## Wikis
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*Wiki software.*
* [DokuWiki ](https://www.dokuwiki.org/dokuwiki ) - Simple to use and highly versatile wiki that doesn't require a database.
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* [ikiwiki ](http://ikiwiki.info/ ) - A wiki compiler.
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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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* [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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## Editors
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*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.
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* [Eclipse ](http://eclipse.org/ ) - IDE written in Java with an extensible plug-in system.
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* [Geany ](http://www.geany.org/ ) - GTK2 text editor.
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* [GNU Emacs ](http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ ) - An extensible, customizable text editor-and more.
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* [Haroopad ](http://pad.haroopress.com/ ) - Markdown editor with live preview.
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* [jotgit ](https://github.com/jdleesmiller/jotgit ) - Git-backed real-time collaborative code editing.
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* [Lime ](http://limetext.org/ ) - Aims to provide an open source solution to Sublime Text
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* [Vim ](http://vim.org ) - A highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient editing.
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## Repositories
*Software package repositories.*
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* [Dotdeb ](http://www.dotdeb.org/ ) - Repository with LAMP updated packages for Debian.
* [Remi ](http://rpms.famillecollet.com/ ) - Repository with LAMP updated packages for RHEL/Centos/Fedora.
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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. (Note: Digital Ocean pays authors for this content)
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# Contributing
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Please see [CONTRIBUTING ](https://github.com/kahun/awesome-sysadmin/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md ) for details.