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Awesome Sysadmin

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

Backups

Backup software.

  • Amanda - Client-server model backup tool.
  • Bacula - Another Client-server model backup tool.
  • UrBackup - Another client-server backup system.

Cloning

Cloning software.

  • Clonezilla - Partition and disk imaging/cloning program.
  • Fog - Another computer cloning solution.

Cloud Computing

  • CloudStack - Cloud computing software for creating, managing, and deploying infrastructure cloud services.
  • OpenNebula - An user-driven cloud management platform for sysadmins and devops.
  • OpenStack - Open source software for building private and public clouds.

Cloud Storage

  • ownCloud - Provides universal access to your files via the web, your computer or your mobile devices.
  • Seafile - Another Open Source Cloud Storage solution.

Configuration Management Database

Configuration management database (CMDB) software.

  • i-doit - Open Source IT Documentation and CMDB.
  • iTop - A complete open source, ITIL, web based service management tool.

Configuration Management

Configuration management tools.

  • Ansible - It's written in Python and manages the nodes over SSH.
  • CFEngine - Lightweight agent system. Configuration state is specified via a declarative language.
  • Chef - It's written in Ruby and Erlang and uses a pure-Ruby DSL.
  • Puppet - It's written in Ruby and uses Puppet's declarative language or a Ruby DSL.
  • Salt - It's written in Python.

Continuous integration

Continuous integration software.

  • Go - Open source agile build and release management software.
  • Jenkins - An extendable open source continuous integration server.

Distributed Filesystems

Network distributed filesystems.

  • Ceph - Distributed object store and file system.
  • GlusterFS - Scale-out network-attached storage file system.
  • HDFS - Distributed, scalable, and portable file-system written in Java for the Hadoop framework.
  • Lustre - A type of parallel distributed file system, generally used for large-scale cluster computing.
  • MooseFS - Fault tolerant, network distributed file system.
  • XtreemFS - XtreemFS is a fault-tolerant distributed file system for all storage needs.

DNS

DNS servers.

  • Bind - The most widely used name server software.
  • djbdns - A collection of DNS applications, including tinydns.
  • NSD - Authoritative only, high performance, simple name server.
  • PowerDNS - DNS server with a variety of data storage back-ends and load balancing features.
  • Unbound - A validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver.

Hosting Control Panels

Web hosting control panels

  • ISPConfig - Hosting control panel for Linux.
  • Virtualmin - Control panel for Linux based on webmin.

IMAP/POP3

IMAP/POP3 mail servers.

  • Courier IMAP/POP3 - Fast, scalable, enterprise IMAP and POP3 server.
  • Cyrus IMAP/POP3 - Intended to be run on sealed servers, where normal users are not permitted to log in.
  • Dovecot - IMAP and POP3 server written primarily with security in mind.
  • Qpopper - One of the oldest and most popular server implementations of POP3.

IT Asset Management

IT Assets Management software.

  • GLPI - Information Resource-Manager with an additional Administration Interface.
  • OCS Inventory NG - Enables users to inventory their IT assets.

LDAP

LDAP servers.

Monitoring

Monitoring software.

  • Cacti - Web-based network monitoring and graphing tool.
  • Icinga - Fork of Nagios.
  • Monit - Small Open Source utility for managing and monitoring Unix systems.
  • Munin - Networked resource monitoring tool.
  • Nagios - Computer system, network and infrastructure monitoring software application.
  • Zabbix - Eenterprise-class software for monitoring of networks and applications
  • Zenoss - Application, server, and network management platform based on Zope.
  • Xymon - Network monitoring inspired by Big Brother.

Network Configuration Management

Network configuration management tools.

  • RANCID - Monitors network device's configurarion and maintain history of changes.
  • rConfig - Another network device configuration management tool.

Newsletters

Newsletter software.

NoSQL

NoSQL servers.

  • Cassandra - Distributed DBMS designed to handle large amounts of data across many servers.
  • CouchDB - Ease of use, with multi-master replication document-oriented database system.
  • MongoDB - Another document-oriented database system.
  • Redis - Networked, in-memory, key-value data store with optional durability.
  • Riak - Another fault-tolerant key-value NoSQL database.

Comparison of NoSQL servers: http://kkovacs.eu/cassandra-vs-mongodb-vs-couchdb-vs-redis

RDBMS

Relational DBMS.

  • MariaDB - Community-developed fork of the MySQL.
  • MySQL - Most popular RDBMS server.
  • Percona Server - Enhanced, drop-in MySQL replacement.
  • PostgreSQL - Object-relational database management system (ORDBMS).
  • SQLite - Library that implements a self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional SQL DBS.

SMTP

SMTP servers.

  • Exim - Message transfer agent (MTA) developed at the University of Cambridge.
  • Qmail - Secure Sendmail replacement.
  • Postfix - Fast, easy to administer, and secure Sendmail replacement.
  • Sendmail - Message transfer agent (MTA).

SSH

SSH tools.

  • Cluster SSH - Controls a number of xterm windows via a single graphical console.
  • parallel-ssh - Provides parallel versions of OpenSSH and related tools.
  • SSH Power Tool - Execute commands and upload files to many servers simultaneously without using pre-shared keys.

Statistics

Analytics software.

  • Piwik - Free and open source web analytics application.

Ticketing systems

Web-based ticketing system.

  • Bugzilla - General-purpose bugtracker and testing tool originally developed and used by the Mozilla project.
  • MantisBT - Another web-based bug tracking system.
  • osTicket - Open source support ticket system.
  • Request Tracker - Ticket-tracking system written in Perl.

Troubleshooting

Troubleshooting Tools.

  • Sysdig - Capture system state and activity from a running Linux instance, then save, filter and analyze.

Project Management

Web-based project management and bug tracking systems.

Version control

Software versioning and revision control.

  • Git - Distributed revision control and source code management (SCM) with an emphasis on speed.
  • Mercurial - Another distributed revision control.
  • Subversion - Client-server revision control system.

Virtualization

Virtualization software.

  • KVM - Linux kernel virtualization infrastructure.
  • OpenVZ - Container-based virtualization for Linux
  • VirtualBox - Virtualization product from Oracle Corporation.
  • Xen - Virtual machine monitor for 32/64 bit Intel / AMD (IA 64) and PowerPC 970 architectures.

VPN

VPN software.

  • OpenVPN - Uses a custom security protocol that utilizes SSL/TLS for key exchange.
  • strongSwan - Complete IPsec implementation for Linux.

Webmails

Webmail applications.

  • RainLoop - Simple, modern & fast web-based IMAP client.
  • Roundcube - Browser-based IMAP client with an application-like user interface.

Web

Web servers.

  • Apache - Most popular web server.
  • Cherokee - Lightweight, high-performance web server/reverse proxy.
  • Lighttpd - Web server more optimized for speed-critical environments.
  • Nginx - Reverse proxy, load balancer, HTTP cache, and web server.

Wikis

Wiki software.

  • DokuWiki - Simple to use and highly versatile wiki that doesn't require a database.
  • Mediawiki - Used to power Wikipedia.

Resources

Various resources, such as books, websites and articles, for improving your skills and knowledge.

Books

Sysadmin related books.

Editors

Open source code editors.

  • Atom - A hackable text editor from Github.
  • Brackets - Open source code editor for web designers and front-end developers.
  • Geany - GTK2 text editor.

Websites

Useful sysadmin related websites.

  • Ops School - Comprehensive program that will help you learn to be an operations engineer.
  • Dotdeb - Repository with LAMP updated packages.

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.