* Wiki Software: [see awesome-selfhosted#wikis](https://github.com/Kickball/awesome-selfhosted#wikis), Sysadmin Wikis: [see #wikis](#wikis)
* [Resources](#resources)
* [Blogs](#blogs)
* [Books](#books)
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* [Websites](#websites)
* [Wikis](#wikis)
## Automation
*Automation build.*
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* [Gradle](http://gradle.org/) - Another build automation system.
* [Rake](https://github.com/ruby/rake) - Build automation tool similar to Make, written in and extensible in Ruby.
## Backups
*Backup software.*
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* [DREBS](https://github.com/dojo4/drebs) - AWS EBS backup script that supports strategies.
* [ZBackup](http://zbackup.org/) - A versatile deduplicating backup tool.
## Build and software organization tools
*Build and software organization tools.*
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* [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.
* [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.
## ChatOps
*Conversation-driven development and management. See https://www.reddit.com/r/chatops for more information.*
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* [Lita](https://www.lita.io/) - A robot companion for your company's chat room.
* [Abot](https://github.com/itsabot/abot) - A digital assistant framework in Go.
## Client management
*Managing software on desktop computers.*
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* [WAPT](https://dev.tranquil.it/wiki/WAPT_-_apt-get_pour_Windows/en) - Network-wide (un)installation, configuration and upgrades of Windows based software.
* [WPKG](http://wpkg.org/) - Software deployment, upgrade and removal program for Windows.
## Cloning
*Cloning software.*
* [Clonezilla](http://clonezilla.org/) - Partition and disk imaging/cloning program.
* [Fog](https://www.fogproject.org/) - Another computer cloning solution.
## Cloud Computing
* [AppScale](https://github.com/AppScale/appscale) - Cloud software with Google App Engine compatibility.
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* [The Foreman](http://theforeman.org/) - Complete lifecycle management tool for physical and virtual servers. FOSS.
* [Tsuru](https://tsuru.io) - Tsuru is an extensible Platform as a Service software.
## 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.
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* [Salt](http://saltstack.com/) - Fast, scalable and flexible systems management software written in Python/ZeroMQ.
* [StackStorm](https://stackstorm.com/) - Event Driven Operations and ChatOps platform for infrastructure management. Written in Python
* [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.
* [Review Board](https://www.reviewboard.org/) - Available as free software under the MIT License.
* [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.
* [Collins](http://tumblr.github.io/collins/) - At Tumblr, it's the infrastructure source of truth and knowledge.
* [TahoeLAFS](https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs) - secure, decentralized, fault-tolerant, peer-to-peer distributed data store and distributed file system.
* [XtreemFS](http://www.xtreemfs.org/) - XtreemFS is a fault-tolerant distributed file system for all storage needs.
* [rConfig](http://www.rconfig.com/) - Another network device configuration management tool.
* [trigger](https://github.com/trigger/trigger) - Robust network automation toolkit written in Python.
## Newsletters
*Newsletter software.*
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* [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.
## NoSQL
*NoSQL databases.*
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* [SQLite](http://sqlite.org/) - Library that implements a self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional SQL DBS.
## Remote Management
* [Tiger VNC](http://tigervnc.org/) - TigerVNC is a high-performance, platform-neutral implementation of VNC (Virtual Network Computing), a client/server application that allows users to launch and interact with graphical applications on remote machines.
* [Remmina](http://www.remmina.org/wp/) - A Feature rich remote desktop application for linux and other unixes.
* [X2go](http://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php) - X2Go is an open source remote desktop software for Linux that uses the NX technology protocol.
## Service Discovery
* [Consul](https://www.consul.io/) - Consul is a tool for service discovery, monitoring and configuration.
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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.
* [ZooKeeper](http://zookeeper.apache.org/) - ZooKeeper is a centralized service for maintaining configuration information, naming, providing distributed synchronization, and providing group services.
## Software Containers
*Operating system–level virtualization.*
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* [LXC](https://linuxcontainers.org/lxc/) - Userspace interface for the Linux kernel containment features.
* [OpenVZ](http://openvz.org) - Container-based virtualization for Linux.
## SSH
*SSH tools. See https://github.com/moul/awesome-ssh*
## Statistics
*Analytics software. See https://github.com/Kickball/awesome-selfhosted#analytics*
## Status Pages
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* [System Status Dashboard (SSD)](http://www.system-status-dashboard.com/) - Overview about 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.
## Ticketing systems
*Web-based ticketing system. See https://github.com/Kickball/awesome-selfhosted#ticketing*
## Troubleshooting
*Troubleshooting Tools.*
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* [Sysdig](http://www.sysdig.org/) - Capture system state and activity from a running Linux instance, then save, filter and analyze.
* [Wireshark](https://www.wireshark.org/) - The world's foremost network protocol analyzer.
## Version control
*Software versioning and revision control.*
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* [Mercurial](https://www.mercurial-scm.org/) - Another distributed revision control.
* [Subversion](http://subversion.apache.org/) - Client-server revision control system.
## Virtualization
*Virtualization software.*
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* [Xen](http://www.xenproject.org/) - Virtual machine monitor for 32/64 bit Intel / AMD (IA 64) and PowerPC 970 architectures.
* [XenServer](http://xenserver.org/) - Turnkey virtualization platform based on CentOS distribution, using Xen and an extended toolstack/API.
## VPN
*VPN software.*
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* [strongSwan](https://www.strongswan.org/) - Complete IPsec implementation for Linux.
Various resources, such as books, websites and articles, for improving your skills and knowledge.
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* [DevOpsGuys](http://blog.devopsguys.com/) - Devops consultants who blog about operations.
* [Rackspace Developers](https://developer.rackspace.com/blog/) - Slightly biased blog with lots of Devops Topics.
## Books
*Sysadmin related books.*
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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.
* [UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook](http://www.admin.com/) - Approaches system administration from a practical perspective.
## Communities / Forums
*For the social people.*
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* [Server Fault](https://serverfault.com/) – StackExchange community for system and network administrators.
## Newsletters
* [Servers for Hackers](https://serversforhackers.com/) - Newsletter for programmers who find themselves needing to know their way around a server.
* [Web Operations Weekly](http://webopsweekly.com/) - A weekly newsletter on Web operations, infrastructure, performance, and tooling, from the browser down to the metal.
## Repositories
*Software package repositories.*
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* [Remi](http://rpms.famillecollet.com/) - Repository with LAMP updated packages for RHEL/Centos/Fedora.
* [Software Collections](https://www.softwarecollections.org) - Community Release of [Red Hat Software Collections](https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en/red-hat-software-collections/). Provides updated packages of Ruby, Python, etc. for CentOS/Scientific Linux 6.x.
## Websites
*Useful sysadmin related websites.*
* [Ops School](http://www.opsschool.org) - Comprehensive program that will help you learn to be an operations engineer.
* [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.
## 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.