* [Shield](https://github.com/starkandwayne/shield) - A pluggable architecture for backup and restore of database systems.
* [Snebu](http://www.snebu.com/) – Snapshot backup with global multi-client deduplication and transparent compression.
* [UrBackup](http://www.urbackup.org/) - Another client-server backup system.
* [DREBS](https://github.com/dojo4/drebs) - AWS EBS backup script that supports strategies.
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## Cloud Orchestration
* [BOSH](http://bosh.io/docs/) - IaaS orchestration platform originally written for deploying and managing Cloud Foundry PaaS, but also useful for general purpose distributed systems.
* [Cloud Foundry](https://www.cloudfoundry.org/) - A Platform-as-a-Service suite to provide the orchestration services that make distributed apps a powerhouse of awesomeness.
* [Cloudify](http://getcloudify.org/) - TOSCA-based cloud orchestration software platform written in Python and YAML.
* [CloudSlang](http://www.cloudslang.io/) - Flow-based orchestration tool for managing deployed applications, with Docker capabilities.
* [Genesis](https://github.com/starkandwayne/genesis) - A template framework for multi-environment BOSH deployments.
* [Juju](https://jujucharms.com/) - Cloud orchestration tool which manages services as charms, YAML configuration and deployment script bundles.
* [Kubernetes](http://kubernetes.io/) - Orchestration system for Docker containers - ([Source Code](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes), [Documentation](http://kubernetes.io/docs/)) `Apache``Go`
* [MCollective](https://puppet.com/mcollective) - Ruby framework to manage server orchestration, developed by Puppet labs.
* [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.
* [Salt](http://saltstack.com/) - Fast, scalable and flexible systems management software written in Python/ZeroMQ.
* [Spruce](https://github.com/geofffranks/spruce) - A tool that merges separate YAML files into one. Works well with [Genesis](https://github.com/starkandwayne/genesis).
* [StackStorm](https://stackstorm.com/) - Event Driven Operations and ChatOps platform for infrastructure management. Written in Python
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* [Buildbot](http://buildbot.net/) - Python-based toolkit for continuous integration.
* [CapsuleCD](https://github.com/AnalogJ/capsulecd) - CD script for automating package/library releases (npm, cookbooks, gems, pip, jars, etc).
* [concourse](http://concourse.ci/) - A modern tool to gain visibility on the CI/CD pipeline. The flexible, declarative DSL is easy to learn and powerful to use.
* [Drone](https://github.com/drone/drone) - Continuous integration server built on Docker and configured using YAML files.
* [GitLab CI](https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-ci/) - Based off of ruby. They also provide GitLab, which manages git repositories.
* [Adagios](http://adagios.org/) - Web based Nagios interface for configuration and monitoring (replacement to the standard interface), and a REST interface, [SourceCode](https://github.com/opinkerfi/adagios), [Documentation](https://github.com/opinkerfi/adagios/wiki))
* [Alerta](https://github.com/guardian/alerta) - Distributed, scaleable and flexible monitoring system.
* [Bloonix](https://bloonix.org) - Bloonix is a monitoring solution that helps businesses to ensure high availability and performance. `GPLv3``Perl`
* [bolo](http://bolo.niftylogic.com/) - A Do-it-Yourself monitoring framework built to gather metrics, mine data and report on the systems in your network.
* [Bosun](http://bosun.org/) - Monitoring and alerting system by Stack Exchange ([Source Code](https://github.com/bosun-monitor/bosun), [Documentation](http://bosun.org/quickstart.html)) `MIT``Go`
* [Cacti](http://www.cacti.net) - Web-based network monitoring and graphing tool.
* [Cabot](http://cabotapp.com/) - Monitoring and alerts, similar to PagerDuty.
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## Books
*Sysadmin related books.*
* [Codex](https://www.gitbook.com/book/starkandwayne/codex/details) - How to deploy Cloud Foundry PaaS on infrastructures like AWS, OpenStack, Azure by Stark & Wayne, LLC.
* [The Linux Command Line](http://linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php) - A book about the Linux command line by William Shotts.
* [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.
* [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.