Submitting your own software is only cool if you have a huge healthy ecosystem. If you have 20 stars on github and you are the sole developer, that's not awesome. Consider what happens when you die (see also: truck factor) and lots of people depend on your software?
as I have recently migrated GestióIP from one host to another
and updated it from 3.2 to 3.4 in the process, I found that
it's no longer awesome because of the following reasons:
* it's hosted and supported on sourceforge
* the install script is >3500 lines of code
* you have to run said script with root
* there are no packages for any major distribution
* it's obfusc… er, written in perl
* the releases don't follow SemVer
* it does way more than IPAM, but other tools do it better
* it doesn't have a REST API (c'mon, it's $currentyear now)
* the weird XML/JSON API is only for the "pro version"
* there are lots of weird translations
* it uses cronjobs and doesn't know what systemd is
* it doesn't follow the Linux FHS
* there's no default config for nginx, only Apache
* did I mention the install script
I refuse to include software written like this on my list of
awesome sysadmin tools. You have to have fun using these tools,
they don't just have to "somehow work". The basic functionality
of GestióIP is there, I guess it's also used in countless legacy
installations worldwide, but I am of the opinion that many
of the design choices the (single?) GestióIP developer made are
not only weird, but also archaic and not awesome.
I recommend to use netbox, ralph or any of the other modern
solutions with a proper API and a proper FOSS development model.
Bolt is akin to PDQ Deploy in the sense that you can run scripts against multiple client types to help configure nodes in an environment. Except that bolt is agentless too!
Tool: Duplicati
Category: Backups
Website: http://www.duplicati.com
Awesome because: FLOSS software, multiple platforms (.NET/MONO-based), easy to use backup on all important cloud services (like OneDrive, Amazon S3...) and other backends (including ftp, ssh...) combined with built-in AES encryption.
