# Awesome Sysadmin **A curated list of amazingly awesome open source sysadmin resources.** You can check out [other awesome lists](https://github.com/n1trux/awesome-awesomeness) as well. Please read [CONTRIBUTING](./CONTRIBUTING.md) if you wish to add software. * [Awesome Sysadmin](#awesome-sysadmin) * [Automation](#automation) * [Backups](#backups) * [ChatOps](#chatops) * [Client Management](#client-management) * [Cloning](#cloning) * [Cloud Computing](#cloud-computing) * [Cloud Storage](#cloud-storage) * [Code Review](#code-review) * [Collaborative Software](#collaborative-software) * [Configuration Management Database](#configuration-management-database) * [Configuration Management](#configuration-management) * [Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment](#continuous-integration--continuous-deployment) * [Control Panels](#control-panels) * [Distributed Filesystems](#distributed-filesystems) * [DNS](#dns) * [Editors](#editors) * [Identity Management](#identity-management) * [IT Asset Management](#it-asset-management) * [Log Management](#log-management) * [Mail Clients](#mail-clients) * [Mail Servers](#mail-servers) * [Monitoring](#monitoring) * [Metric & Metric Collection](#metric--metric-collection) * [Network Configuration Management](#network-configuration-management) * [Newsletter](#newsletters) * [NoSQL](#nosql) * [Packaging](#packaging) * [Project Management](#project-management) * [Queuing](#queuing) * [RDBMS](#rdbms) * [Security](#security) * [Service Discovery](#service-discovery) * [Software Containers](#software-containers) * [SSH](#ssh) * [Statistics](#statistics) * [Status Pages](#status-pages) * [Ticketing systems](#ticketing-systems) * [Troubleshooting](#troubleshooting) * [Project Management](#project-management) * [Version control](#version-control) * [Virtualization](#virtualization) * [VPN](#vpn) * [XMPP](#xmpp) * [Web](#web) * [Wiki Software](#wiki-software) * [Resources](#resources) * [Blogs](#blogs) * [Books](#books) * [Communities/Forums](#communities--forums) * [Newsletters](#newsletters) * [Repositories](#repositories) * [Websites](#websites) * [Wikis](#wikis) ## Automation *Automation build.* * [Apache Ant](https://ant.apache.org/) - Automation build tool, similar to make, written in Java. * [Apache Maven](http://maven.apache.org/) - Build automation tool mainly for Java. * [Bazel](http://bazel.io/) - Google's build system. * [GNU Make](http://www.gnu.org/software/make/) - The most popular automation build tool for many purposes. * [Gradle](http://gradle.org/) - Another build automation system. ## Backups *Backup software.* * [Amanda](http://www.amanda.org/) - Client-server model backup tool. * [Attic](https://attic-backup.org) - A deduplicating backup program written in Python. * [Bacula](http://www.bacula.org) - Another Client-server model backup tool. * [Bareos](http://www.bareos.org) - A fork of Bacula backup tool. * [Backupninja](https://labs.riseup.net/code/projects/backupninja) - Lightweight, extensible meta-backup system. * [Backuppc](http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/) - Client-server model backup tool with file pooling scheme. * [Brebis](http://brebisproject.org) - A fully automated backup checker * [Burp](http://burp.grke.org/) - Network backup and restore program. * [Duplicity](http://duplicity.nongnu.org/) - Encrypted bandwidth-efficient backup using the rsync algorithm. * [Elkarbackup](https://github.com/elkarbackup/elkarbackup) - Backup solution based on RSnapshot with a simple web interface * [Lsyncd](https://github.com/axkibe/lsyncd) - File Monitor which spawns a process to synchronize the changes (rsync by default). * [Rsnapshot](http://www.rsnapshot.org/) - Filesystem Snapshotting Utility. * [SafeKeep](http://safekeep.sourceforge.net/) - Centralized pull-based backup using `rdiff-backup`. * [Snebu](http://www.snebu.com/) – Snapshot backup with global multi-client deduplication and transparent compression. * [TarSnap](https://www.tarsnap.com/) - Secure backup service with an open-source client. * [UrBackup](http://www.urbackup.org/) - Another client-server backup system. * [DREBS](https://github.com/dojo4/drebs) - AWS EBS backup script that supports strategies. * [ZBackup](http://zbackup.org/) - A versatile deduplicating backup tool. ## ChatOps *Conversation-driven development and management. See http://www.reddit.com/r/chatops for more information.* * [CloudBot](https://github.com/CloudBotIRC/CloudBot) - The simple, fast, expandable Python IRC bot. * [Eggdrop](http://www.eggheads.org/) - the world's most popular IRC bot, designed for flexibility and ease of use, and is freely distributable under the GNU GPL. * [Err](http://errbot.net/) - a plugin based chatbot designed to be easily deployable, extensible and maintainable. * [Hubot](https://hubot.github.com/) - A customizable, life embetterment robot. * [Lazlo](https://github.com/djosephsen/lazlo) - A chatops automation framework in Go. * [Lita](https://www.lita.io/) - A robot companion for your company's chat room. ## Client management *Managing software on desktop computers.* * [OCS Inventory NG](http://www.ocsinventory-ng.org/en/) - Inventory, deployment and network scan. * [Opsi](http://www.opsi.org/en) (open PC server integration) - Client Management for Windows based on Debian. * [WAPT] - Network-wide (un)installation, configuration and upgrades of Windows based software. * [WPKG] - Software deployment, upgrade and removal program for Windows. ## Cloning *Cloning software.* * [Clonezilla](http://clonezilla.org/) - Partition and disk imaging/cloning program. * [Fog](http://www.fogproject.org/) - Another computer cloning solution. * [Redo Backup](http://redobackup.org/) - Easy Backup, Recovery and Restore. ## Cloud Computing * [AppScale](http:/github.com/AppScale/appscale) - Cloud software with Google App Engine compatibility. * [Archipel](http://archipelproject.org/) - Manage and supervise virtual machines using Libvirt. * [CloudStack](http://cloudstack.apache.org/) - Cloud computing software for creating, managing, and deploying infrastructure cloud services. * [Cobbler](http://www.cobblerd.org/) - Cobbler is a Linux installation server that allows for rapid setup of network installation environments. * [Cracow Cloud One - Polish Private Cloud](http://cc1.ifj.edu.pl/) - The CC1 system provides a complete solution for Private Cloud Computing. * [Eucalyptus](https://www.eucalyptus.com/) - Private cloud software with AWS compatibility. * [Flynn](https://flynn.io) - PaaS * [Mesos](http://mesos.apache.org/) - Develop and run resource-efficient distributed systems. * [OpenNebula](http://opennebula.org/) - An user-driven cloud management platform for sysadmins and devops. * [Openshift](http://www.openshift.org) - OpenShift is a platform as a service product from Red Hat. * [OpenStack](https://www.openstack.org/) - Software for building private and public clouds. * [The Foreman](http://theforeman.org/) - Foreman is a 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://docs.cloudfoundry.org/bosh/) - IaaS orchestration platform originally written for deploying and managing Cloud Foundry PaaS, but also useful for general purpose distributed systems. * [Cloudify](http://www.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. * [Juju](https://juju.ubuntu.com/) - Cloud orechestration tool which manages services as charms, YAML configuration and deployment script bundles. * [MCollective](http://puppetlabs.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. * [Rundeck](http://rundeck.org/) - Simple orchestration tool. * [Salt](http://www.saltstack.com/) - Fast, scalable and flexible systems management software written in Python/ZeroMQ. * [StackStorm](http://stackstorm.com/) - Event Driven Operations and ChatOps platform for infrastructure management. Written in Python ## Cloud Storage * [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. * [ownCloud](https://owncloud.org) - Provides universal access to your files via the web, your computer or your mobile devices. * [Pydio](https://pyd.io) - Pydio (formerly AjaXplorer) is a mature solution for file sharing and synchronization. * [Seafile](http://seafile.com) - Another Cloud Storage solution. * [SparkleShare](http://sparkleshare.org/) - Provides cloud storage and file synchronization services. By default, it uses Git as a storage backend. * [Swift](http://docs.openstack.org/developer/swift/) - A highly available, distributed, eventually consistent object/blob store. * [Syncthing](http://syncthing.net/) - System for private, encrypted and authenticated distribution of data. ## Code Review *Web Based collaborative code review system.* * [Gerrit](https://code.google.com/p/gerrit/) - Based on the Git version control, it facilitates software developers to review modifications to the source code and approve or reject those changes. * [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. ## Collaborative Software *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. * [Horde Groupware](http://www.horde.org/apps/groupware) - PHP based collaborative software suite that includes email, calendars, wikis, time tracking and file management. * [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. ## Configuration Management Database *Configuration management database (CMDB) software.* * [i-doit](http://www.i-doit.org/) - IT Documentation and CMDB. * [iTop](http://www.combodo.com/-Overview-.html) - Complete ITIL web based service management tool. * [Ralph](https://github.com/allegro/ralph) - Asset management, DCIM and CMDB system for large Data Centers as well as smaller LAN networks. * [Sicekit](https://github.com/sicekit/sicekit) - The systems & infrastructure encyclopaedia toolkit (based on mediawiki). * [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. ## Configuration Management *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. * [Pallet](http://palletops.com/) - Infrastructure definition, configuration and management via a Clojure DSL. * [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. * [Slaughter](http://steve.org.uk/Software/slaughter/) - It's written in Perl. ## Build and software organization tools *Build and software organization tools.* * [EasyBuild](https://easybuild.readthedocs.org/en/latest/) - EasyBuild builds software and modulefiles for High Performance Computing (HPC) systems in an efficient way. * [environment-modules Tcl](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environment_Modules_%28software%29) - . * [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. * [environment-modules Tcl/C](http://modules.sourceforge.net/) - The Environment Modules package provides for the dynamic modification of a user's environment via modulefiles. * [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. ## Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment *Continuous integration/deployment software.* * [Buildbot](http://buildbot.net/) - Python-based toolkit for continuous integration. * [Drone](https://github.com/drone/drone) - Continuous integration server built on Docker and configured using YAML files. * [GitLab CI](https://www.gitlab.com/gitlab-ci/) - Based off of ruby. They also provide GitLab, which manages git repositories. * [Go](http://www.go.cd/) - Continuous delivery server. * [Jenkins](http://jenkins-ci.org/) - An extendable continuous integration server. ## Control Panels *Web hosting and server or service control panels* * Web hosting * [Froxlor](http://www.froxlor.org/) - Easy to use panel for Linux with Nginx and PHP-FPM support. * [ISPConfig](http://www.ispconfig.org) - Hosting control panel for Linux. * [Sentora](http://sentora.org/) - Control panel for Linux, BSD, and Windows based on ZPanel. * [VestaCP](http://www.vestacp.com/) - Hosting panel for Linux but with Nginx. * [ZPanel](http://www.zpanelcp.com/) - Control panel for Linux, BSD, and Windows. * E-mail * [Postfix Admin](http://postfixadmin.sourceforge.net/) - web interface to manage postfix mailboxes, virtual domains and aliases. * DNS * [Atomia DNS](http://atomiadns.com/) - DNS management system. * [PDNS Gui](https://github.com/odoucet/pdns-gui) - WebGUI which aids in administering domains and records for PowerDNS with MySQL. * [Poweradmin](http://www.poweradmin.org/) - Friendly web-based DNS administration tool for PowerDNS server. * Revision Control * [iF.SVNAdmin](http://svnadmin.insanefactory.com/) - WebGUI to manage Subversion repositories and User/Group permissions. * [SCM-Manager](https://www.scm-manager.org/) - The easiest way to share and manage your Git, Mercurial and Subversion repositories. * Virtualization * [Feathur](http://feathur.com) - VPS Provisioning and Management Software. * [Panamax](http://panamax.io/) - Project that makes deploying complex containerized apps as easy as Drag-and-Drop. * [Virtkick](https://www.virtkick.com/) - A simple orchestrator. Manage virtual machines or Docker containers easily. * [WebVirtMgr](https://retspen.github.io) - libvirt-based Web interface for managing virtual machines. * Server * [Ajenti](http://ajenti.org/) - Control panel for Linux and BSD. * [Cockpit](http://cockpit-project.org/) - New multi-server web interface for Linux servers written in C. * [Virtualmin](http://www.virtualmin.com/) - Control panel for Linux based on webmin. * [Webmin](http://www.webmin.com/) - Linux server control panel. * Others ## Deployment Automation *Tools and scripts to support deployments to your servers.* * [Capistrano](http://www.capistranorb.com) - Deploy your application to any number of machines simultaneously, in sequence or as a rolling set via SSH (rake based). * [Fabric](http://www.fabfile.org/) - Python library and cli tool for streamlining the use of SSH for application deployment or systems administration tasks. * [Mina](http://nadarei.co/mina/) - Really fast deployer and server automation tool (rake based). * [Rocketeer](http://rocketeer.autopergamene.eu/) - PHP task runner and deployment tool. * [Vlad the Deployer](http://rubyhitsquad.com/Vlad_the_Deployer.html) - Deployment automation (rake based). ## Distributed Filesystems *Network distributed filesystems.* * [Ceph](http://ceph.com/) - Distributed object store and file system. * [DRBD](http://www.drbd.org/) - Distributed Replicated Block Device. * [LeoFS](http://leo-project.net) - Unstructured object/data storage and a highly available, distributed, eventually consistent storage system. * [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/) - Parallel distributed file system, generally used for large-scale cluster computing. * [MooseFS](http://www.moosefs.org/) - Fault tolerant, network distributed file system. * [MogileFS](http://mogilefs.org/) - Application level, network distributed file system. * [OpenAFS](http://www.openafs.org/) - Distributed network file system with read-only replicas and multi-OS support. * [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. ## DNS *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. * [Designate](https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Designate) - DNS REST API that support several DNS servers as its backend. * [dnsmasq](http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/doc.html) - A lightweight service providing DNS, DHCP and TFTP services to small-scale networks. * [Knot](https://www.knot-dns.cz/) - High performance authoritative-only DNS server. * [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. * [Unbound](http://unbound.net/) - Validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver. * [Yadifa](http://yadifa.eu/) - Lightweight authoritative Name Server with DNSSEC capabilities powering the .eu top-level domain. ## Editors *Open source code editors.* * [Atom](https://atom.io/) - A hackable text editor from Github. * [Brackets](http://brackets.io/) - Code editor for web designers and front-end developers. * [Eclipse](http://eclipse.org/) - IDE written in Java with an extensible plug-in system. * [Geany](http://www.geany.org/) - GTK2 text editor. * [GNU Emacs](http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) - An extensible, customizable text editor-and more. * [Haroopad](http://pad.haroopress.com/) - Markdown editor with live preview. * [ICEcoder](http://icecoder.net) - Code editor awesomeness, built with common web languages. * [jotgit](https://github.com/jdleesmiller/jotgit) - Git-backed real-time collaborative code editing. * [KDevelop](https://www.kdevelop.org/) - IDE by the people behind KDE. * [Light Table](http://www.lighttable.com/) - The next generation code editor. * [Lime](http://limetext.org/) - Aims to provide an open source solution to Sublime Text * [TextMate](https://github.com/textmate/textmate/) - A graphical text editor for OS X. * [Vim](http://www.vim.org) - A highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient editing. ## Identity Management *LDAP servers and other tools to manage accounts and identities.* ### LDAP * [389 Directory Server](http://port389.org) - Developed by Red Hat. * [Apache Directory Server](http://directory.apache.org/) - Apache Software Foundation project written in Java. * [OpenDJ](http://opendj.forgerock.org/) - Fork of OpenDS. * [OpenDS](https://opends.java.net/) - Another directory server written in Java. * [OpenLDAP](http://openldap.org/) - Developed by the OpenLDAP Project. ### Tools and web interfaces * [Fusion Directory](http://www.fusiondirectory.org) - Improve the Management of the services and the company directory based on OpenLDAP. * [FreeIPA](http://www.freeipa.org/) - Security management solution, can manage LDAP, KRB, DNS, sudo, and more * [LDAP Account Manager (LAM)](https://www.ldap-account-manager.org/lamcms/) - Web frontend for managing entries (e.g. users, groups, DHCP settings) stored in an LDAP directory. * [Samba](https://www.samba.org/) – Active Directory and CIFS protocol implementation. ## 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. * [RackTables](http://racktables.org/) - Datacenter and server room asset management like document hardware assets, network addresses, space in racks, networks configuration. * [Ralph](https://github.com/allegro/ralph) - Asset management, DCIM and CMDB system for large Data Centers as well as smaller LAN networks. * [Snipe IT](http://snipeitapp.com/) - Asset & license management software. ## Log Management *Log management tools: collect, parse, visualize ...* * [Elasticsearch](http://www.elasticsearch.org/) - A Lucene Based Document store mainly used for log indexing, storage and analysis. * [Fluentd](http://www.fluentd.org/) - Log Collector and Shipper. * [Flume](https://flume.apache.org/) - Distributed log collection and aggregation system. * [Graylog2](http://graylog2.org/) - Pluggable Log and Event Analysis Server with Alerting options. * [Heka](http://hekad.readthedocs.org/en/latest/) - Stream processing system which may be used for log aggregation. * [Kibana](http://www.elasticsearch.org/overview/kibana/) - Visualize logs and time-stamped data. * [Logstash](http://logstash.net/) - Tool for managing events and logs. * [Octopussy](http://www.octopussy.pm) - Log Management Solution (Visualize / Alert / Report). ## Mail Clients * [Claws Mail](http://www.claws-mail.org/) - Old school email client (and news reader), based on GTK+. * [Mutt](http://www.mutt.org/) - Small but very powerful text-based mail client. * [Thunderbird](https://www.mozilla.org/de/thunderbird/) - Free email application that's easy to set up and customize. ### Webmail *Webmail applications.* * [Mailpile](https://www.mailpile.is/) - A modern, fast web-mail client with user-friendly encryption and privacy features. * [Roundcube](http://roundcube.net/) - Browser-based IMAP client with an application-like user interface. * [SquirrelMail](http://squirrelmail.org) - Another browser-based IMAP client. * [Horde](http://www.horde.org) - Webmail and groupware client * [Rainloop](http://www.rainloop.net) - Very nice webmail with IMAP/SMTP Support and multi accounting ## Mail Servers *Software for setting up mail servers.* ### MDA (IMAP/POP3) *Mail Delivery Agents (IMAP/POP3 software).* * [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. ### MTA (SMTP) *Mail Transfer Agents (SMTP servers).* * [Exim](http://www.exim.org/) - Message transfer agent (MTA) developed at the University of Cambridge. * [Haraka](http://haraka.github.io/) - A high-performance, pluginable SMTP server written in JavaScript. * [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) - Disposable email SMTP server, also useful for development. * [OpenSMTPD](https://opensmtpd.org/) - Secure SMTP server implementation from the OpenBSD project. * [Postfix](http://www.postfix.org/) - Fast, easy to administer, and secure Sendmail replacement. * [Qmail](http://cr.yp.to/qmail.html) - Secure Sendmail replacement. * [Sendmail](http://www.sendmail.com/sm/open_source/) - Message transfer agent (MTA). ### complete solutions *Software for simple deployment of a mail server, e.g. for inexperienced or impatient admins.* * [Mail-in-a-Box](https://mailinabox.email/) - Take back control of your email with this easy-to-deploy mail server in a box. * [iRedMail](http://www.iredmail.org/) - Full-featured mail server solution based on Postfix and Dovecot. * [Citadel](http://www.citadel.org/) - Feature packed, easy, versatile, and powerful mail server, thanks to exclusive "rooms" based architecture. * [Modoboa](http://modoboa.org/en/) - Modoboa is a mail hosting and management platform including a modern and simplified Web User Interface. * [Fufix](https://www.debinux.de/fufix/) - Fufix is a mailserver installer based on Dovecot, Postfix, Postfixadmin, Nginx, PHP, MySQL and Fail2ban. ## Monitoring *Monitoring software.* * [Alerta](https://github.com/guardian/alerta) - Distributed, scaleable and flexible monitoring system. * [BandwidthD](http://bandwidthd.sourceforge.net/) - BandwidthD tracks usage of TCP/IP network subnets and builds html files with graphs to display utilization. * [Cacti](http://www.cacti.net) - Web-based network monitoring and graphing tool. * [Cabot](http://cabotapp.com/) - Monitoring and alerts, similar to PagerDuty. * [check_mk](http://mathias-kettner.com/check_mk.html) - Collection of extensions for Nagios. * [Dash](https://github.com/afaqurk/linux-dash) - A low-overhead monitoring web dashboard for a GNU/Linux machine. * [Flapjack](http://flapjack.io/) - Monitoring notification routing & event processing system. * [Icinga](https://www.icinga.org/) - Fork of Nagios. * [LibreNMS](http://www.librenms.org) - Fully featured network monitoring system that provides a wealth of features and device support. * [Monit](http://mmonit.com/monit/#home) - Small utility for managing and monitoring Unix systems. * [Munin](http://munin-monitoring.org/) - Networked resource monitoring tool. * [Naemon](http://www.naemon.org/) - Network monitoring tool based on the Nagios 4 core with performance enhancements and new features. * [Nagios](http://www.nagios.org/) - Computer system, network and infrastructure monitoring software application. * [Node-Bell](https://github.com/eleme/node-bell) - Real-time anomalies detection for periodic time series, metrics monitor. * [Observium](http://www.observium.org/) - SNMP monitoring for servers and networking devices. Runs on linux. * [OMD](http://omdistro.org/) - The Open Monitoring Distribution. * [PhpSysInfo](https://phpsysinfo.github.io/phpsysinfo/) - A customizable PHP script that displays information about your system nicely * [Riemann](http://riemann.io/) - Flexible and fast events processor allowing complex events/metrics analysis. * [Sensu](http://sensuapp.org/) - Monitoring framework. * [Sentry](https://getsentry.com/) - Application monitoring, event logging and aggregation. * [ServerStatus BotoX](https://github.com/BotoX/ServerStatus) - Display and monitor your servers statistics in a beatiful way. * [ServerStatus moejda](https://github.com/mojeda/ServerStatus) - Server Status website script, displays uptime (days), free RAM, free HDD * [Shinken](http://www.shinken-monitoring.org/) - Another monitoring framework. * [Thruk](http://www.thruk.org/) - Multibackend monitoring web interface with support for Naemon, Nagios, Icinga and Shinken. * [Xymon](http://www.xymon.com/) - Network monitoring inspired by Big Brother. * [Zabbix](http://www.zabbix.com/) - Enterprise-class software for monitoring of networks and applications. * [Zenoss](http://community.zenoss.org) - Application, server, and network management platform based on Zope. ## Metric & Metric Collection *Metric gathering and display software.* * [Collectd](http://collectd.org/) - System statistic collection daemon. * [Collectl](http://collectl.sourceforge.net/) - High precision system performance metrics collecting tool. * [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. * [Diamond](https://github.com/BrightcoveOS/Diamond) - Python based statistic collection daemon. * [Facette](http://facette.io) - Time series data visualization and graphing software written in Go. * [Freeboard](https://github.com/Freeboard/freeboard) - A damn-sexy front-end real-time dashboard. Transforms raw JSON into delicious UI. * [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. * [Grafana](http://grafana.org/) - A Graphite & InfluxDB Dashboard and Graph Editor. * [Graphite](http://graphite.readthedocs.org/en/latest/) - Scalable graphing server. * [InfluxDB](http://influxdb.com/) - Distributed time series database with no external dependencies. * [KairosDB](https://code.google.com/p/kairosdb/) - Fast distributed scalable time series database, fork of OpenTSDB 1.x. * [OpenTSDB](http://opentsdb.net/) - Store and server massive amounts of time series data without losing granularity. * [Packetbeat](http://packetbeat.com/) - Captures network traffic and displays it in a custom Kibana dashboard for easy viewing. * [Prometheus](http://prometheus.io/) - Service monitoring system and time series database. * [RRDtool](http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/) - Industry standard, high performance data logging and graphing system for time series data. * [Statsd](https://github.com/etsy/statsd/) - Application statistic listener. ## Network Configuration Management *Network configuration management tools.* * [GestióIP](http://www.gestioip.net/) - An automated web based IPv4/IPv6 IP Address Management tool. * [Oxidized](https://github.com/ytti/oxidized) - A modern take on network device configuration monitoring with web interface and GIT storage. * [RANCID](http://www.shrubbery.net/rancid/) - Monitors network device's configuration and maintain history of changes. * [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.* * [DadaMail](http://dadamailproject.com/) - Mailing List Manager, written in Perl. * [phpList](http://www.phplist.com/) - Newsletter manager written in PHP. * [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.* * 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. * [Hypertable](http://hypertable.org/) - C++ based BigTable-like DBMS, communicates through Thrift and runs either as stand-alone or on distributed FS such as Hadoop. * Document Store * [CouchDB](http://couchdb.apache.org/) - Ease of use, with multi-master replication document-oriented database system. * [ElasticSearch](http://www.elasticsearch.org/) - Java based database, popular with log aggregation, and email archiving projects. * [MongoDB](http://www.mongodb.org/) - Another document-oriented database system. * [RavenDB](http://ravendb.net/) - Document based database with ACID/Transactional features. * [RethinkDB](http://www.rethinkdb.com/) - Distributed document store database, focuses on JSON. * Graph * [FlockDB](https://github.com/twitter/flockdb) - Twitter's distributed, fault-tolerant graph database. * [Neo4j](http://www.neo4j.org/) - Graph database. * Key-Value * [LevelDB](https://github.com/google/leveldb) - Google's high performance key/value database. * [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. Comparison of NoSQL servers: http://kkovacs.eu/cassandra-vs-mongodb-vs-couchdb-vs-redis ## Packaging * [fpm](https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm) - Versatile multi format package creator. * [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). * [tito](https://github.com/dgoodwin/tito) - Builds RPMs for git-based projects. ## Project Management *Web-based project management and bug tracking systems.* * [ChiliProject](https://www.chiliproject.org) - Fork of Redmine. * [GitBucket](https://github.com/takezoe/gitbucket) Clone of GitHub written in Scala; single jar install. * [GitLab](https://www.gitlab.com/) - Clone of GitHub written in Ruby. * [Gogs](http://gogs.io/) - Self-hosted Git service written in Go. * [OpenProject](https://www.openproject.org) - Project collaboration. * [Phabricator](http://phabricator.org/) Written in PHP. * [Redmine](http://www.redmine.org/) - Written in ruby on rails. * [Taiga](https://taiga.io/) - Agile Project Management Tool based on the Kanban and Scrum methods. * [The Bug Genie](http://www.thebuggenie.com/) - Written in PHP. * [Trac](http://trac.edgewall.org/) - Written in python. ## Queuing * [ActiveMQ](https://activemq.apache.org/) - Java message broker. * [BeanstalkD](http://kr.github.io/beanstalkd/) - A simple, fast work queue. * [Gearman](http://gearman.org/) - Fast multi-language queuing/job processing platform. * [Kafka](http://kafka.apache.org) - Extremely high performance publish/subscribe message system. * [NSQ](http://nsq.io/) - A realtime distributed messaging platform. * [RabbitMQ](http://www.rabbitmq.com/) - Robust, fully featured, cross distro queuing system. * [ZeroMQ](http://zeromq.org/) - Lightweight queuing system. ## RDBMS *Relational DBMS.* * [Firebird](http://www.firebirdsql.org/) - True universal database. * [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. * [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). * [PostgreSQL-XL](http://www.postgres-xl.org/) - Scalable PostgreSQL-based database cluster. * [SQLite](http://sqlite.org/) - Library that implements a self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional SQL DBS. ## Security *Security tools.* * [Blackbox](https://github.com/StackExchange/blackbox) - Safely store secrets in Git/Mercurial. Provides tooling to automatically encrypt secrets like passwords. * [Bro](http://www.bro.org) - Bro is a powerful framework for network analysis and security monitoring. * [Denyhosts](http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/) - Thwart SSH dictionary based attacks and brute force attacks. * [Fail2Ban](http://www.fail2ban.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page) - Scans log files and takes action on IPs that show malicious behavior. * [fwknop](https://www.cipherdyne.org/fwknop/) - Protects ports via Single Packet Authorization in your firewall. * [Glastopf](http://glastopf.org/) - A low-interaction web application honeypot to emulate vulnerabilities and gather attack data. * [Kippo](https://github.com/desaster/kippo) - A medium-interaction SSH honeypot, mostly used as a standalone SSH daemon with a configurable Filesystem sandbox. * [Linux Malware Detect](https://www.rfxn.com/projects/linux-malware-detect/) - A malware scanner for Linux designed around the threats faced in shared hosted environments. * [OSSEC](http://ossec.net) - OSSEC is a HIDS that performs log analysis, FIM, rootkit detection, and much more. * [OSQuery](https://osquery.io/) - Query your servers status and info using a SQL like interface. * [pfSense](https://www.pfsense.org/) - Firewall and Router FreeBSD distribution. * [Snort](https://www.snort.org/) - Network intrusion prevention system (NIPS) and network intrusion detection system (NIDS). * [SpamAssassin](https://spamassassin.apache.org/) - A powerful and popular email spam filter employing a variety of detection technique. ## Service Discovery * [Consul](http://www.consul.io/) - Consul is a tool for service discovery, monitoring and configuration. * [Doozerd](https://github.com/ha/doozerd) - Doozer is a highly-available, completely consistent store for small amounts of extremely important data. * [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.* * [Docker](http://www.docker.com/) - Platform for developers and sysadmins to build, ship, and run distributed applications. * [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.* * [Advanced SSH config](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/advanced-ssh-config/) - Enhances ssh_config file capabilities, completely transparent. * [autossh](http://www.harding.motd.ca/autossh/) - Automatically respawn ssh session after network interruption. * [Cluster SSH](http://sourceforge.net/projects/clusterssh/) - Controls a number of xterm windows via a single graphical console. * [DSH](http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/software/dsh.html.en) - Dancer's shell / distributed shell - Wrapper for executing multiple remote shell commands from one command line. * [Mosh](http://mosh.mit.edu/) - The mobile shell. * [parallel-ssh](http://code.google.com/p/parallel-ssh/) - Provides parallel versions of OpenSSH and related tools. * [ssh-cert-authority](https://github.com/cloudtools/ssh-cert-authority) - A democratic SSH certificate authority. * [ssh-ca](https://github.com/cloudtools/ssh-ca/) - Allows giving ssh access to servers without putting a users key on the server, as well as expiring access. * [SSH Power Tool](http://code.google.com/p/sshpt/) - Execute commands and upload files to many servers simultaneously without using pre-shared keys. * [sshrc](https://github.com/Russell91/sshrc) - sources ~/.sshrc on your local computer after logging in remotely. * [stormssh](http://stormssh.readthedocs.org) - A command line tool to manage SSH connections. ## Statistics *Analytics software.* * [Analog](http://www.analog.cx/) - Logfile Analyser. * [AWStats](http://www.awstats.org/) - Generates web, streaming, ftp or mail server statistics graphically. * [GoAccess](http://goaccess.io/) - Real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal. * [Open Web Analytics](http://www.openwebanalytics.com/) - Add web analytics to websites using JS, PHP or REST APIs. * [Piwik](http://piwik.org/) - Web analytics application. * [Webalizer](http://www.webalizer.org/) - Fast web server log file analysis. ## Status Pages * [Cachet](https://cachethq.io) - Status page system written in PHP. * [Stashboard](http://www.stashboard.org) - Status page for cloud services and APIs. * [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.* * [Bugzilla](http://www.bugzilla.org/) - General-purpose bugtracker and testing tool originally developed and used by the Mozilla project. * [Cerb](http://www.cerberusweb.com/) - Group-based e-mail management project. * [Flyspray](http://flyspray.org) - Web-based bug tracking system written in PHP. * [MantisBT](http://www.mantisbt.org/) - Web-based bug tracking system. * [osTicket](http://osticket.com/) - Simple support ticket system. * [OTRS](http://www.otrs.com/) - Trouble ticket system for assigning tickets to incoming queries and tracking further communications. * [Request Tracker](http://www.bestpractical.com/rt/) - Ticket-tracking system written in Perl. * [TheBugGenie](http://www.thebuggenie.com) - Ticket system with extensive user rights system. ## Troubleshooting *Troubleshooting Tools.* * [mitmproxy](http://mitmproxy.org/) - A Python tool used for intercepting, viewing and modifying network traffic. Invaluable in troubleshooting certain problems. * [Sysdig](http://www.sysdig.org/) - Capture system state and activity from a running Linux instance, then save, filter and analyze. * [Trinity Rescue Kit](http://trinityhome.org) - Linux Live CD for general computer troubleshooting. * [Wireshark](http://www.wireshark.org/) - The world's foremost network protocol analyzer. ## Version control *Software versioning and revision control.* * [Fossil](http://www.fossil-scm.org/) - Distributed version control with built-in wiki and bug tracking. * [Git](http://git-scm.com/) - Distributed revision control and source code management (SCM) with an emphasis on speed. * [GNU Bazaar](http://bazaar.canonical.com/) - Distributed revision control system sponsored by Canonical. * [Mercurial](http://mercurial.selenic.com/) - Another distributed revision control. * [Subversion](http://subversion.apache.org/) - Client-server revision control system. ## Virtualization *Virtualization software.* * [Archipel](http://archipelproject.org/) - XMPP based virtualization management platform. * [ConVirt](http://www.convirture.com/products_opensource.php) - Provides the core functionality for centrally managing your KVM or Xen virtualized environment. * [Ganeti](https://code.google.com/p/ganeti/) - Cluster virtual server management software tool built on top of KVM and Xen. * [KVM](http://www.linux-kvm.org) - Linux kernel virtualization infrastructure. * [OpenNebula](http://opennebula.org/) - Flexible enterprise cloud made simple. * [oVirt](http://www.ovirt.org/) - Manages virtual machines, storage and virtual networks. * [Packer](http://www.packer.io/) - A tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration. * [Proxmox VE](https://www.proxmox.com/proxmox-ve) - Virtualization management solution. * [QEMU](http://www.qemu.org/) - QEMU is a generic machine emulator and virtualizer. * [Vagrant](https://www.vagrantup.com/) - Tool for building complete development environments. * [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. ## VPN *VPN software.* * [OpenVPN](https://community.openvpn.net) - Uses a custom security protocol that utilizes SSL/TLS for key exchange. * [Pritunl](http://pritunl.com/) - OpenVPN based solution. Easy to set up. * [SoftEther](https://www.softether.org/) - Multi-protocol software VPN with advanced features * [sshuttle](https://github.com/apenwarr/sshuttle) - Poor man's VPN. * [strongSwan](http://www.strongswan.org/) - Complete IPsec implementation for Linux. * [tinc](http://www.tinc-vpn.org/) - Distributed p2p VPN. ## 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. *XMPP Web Clients* * [Candy](http://candy-chat.github.io/candy/) - Multi user XMPP client written in Javascript. * [Kaiwa](http://getkaiwa.com/) - Web based chat client in the style of common paid alternatives. * [Lets-Chat](http://sdelements.github.io/lets-chat/) - A self hosted chat suite written in Node. ## Web *Web servers.* * [Apache](http://httpd.apache.org/) - Most popular web server. * [Cherokee](http://cherokee-project.com/) - Lightweight, high-performance web server/reverse proxy. * [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. * [uWSGI](https://github.com/unbit/uwsgi/) - The uWSGI project aims at developing a full stack for building hosting services. *Web Performance* * [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. ## Wiki Software * [DokuWiki](https://www.dokuwiki.org/dokuwiki) - Simple to use and highly versatile wiki that doesn't require a database. * [Gollum](https://github.com/gollum/gollum) - A simple, Git-powered wiki with a sweet API and local frontend. * [ikiwiki](http://ikiwiki.info/) - A wiki compiler. * [MDwiki](http://dynalon.github.io/mdwiki/#!index.md) - Wiki completely built in HTML5/Javascript and runs 100% on the client * [Mediawiki](http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki) - Used to power Wikipedia. * [MoinMoin](http://moinmo.in/) - An advanced, easy to use and extensible WikiEngine with a large community of users. * [Ōlelo Wiki](https://github.com/minad/olelo) - A a wiki that stores pages in a Git repository. * [TiddlyWiki](http://tiddlywiki.com) - Complete interactive wiki in JavaScript. # Resources Various resources, such as books, websites and articles, for improving your skills and knowledge. ## Blogs * [Code as Craft](http://codeascraft.com/) - Etsy's Ops blog, lots of technical posts. * [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. ## Books *Sysadmin related books.* * [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. * [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.* * [ArsTechnica OpenForum](http://arstechnica.com/civis/) – IT Forum which is attached to a large news site. * [Reddit](https://www.reddit.com) - Really, really large bulletin board system. * [/r/Linux](https://www.reddit.com/r/linux) - News and information about Linux. * [/r/LinuxQuestions](https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions) * [/r/SysAdmin](https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/) * [Spiceworks Community](https://community.spiceworks.com/start) – General enterprise IT news and small articles. * [StackExchange Network](https://stackexchange.com/sites#technology) – Q&A communities. * [Server Fault](https://serverfault.com/) – StackExchange community for system and network administrators. ## Newsletters * [Servers for Hackers](http://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.* * [AlternativeTo](http://alternativeto.net) - Find alternatives to software you know and discover new software. ### Debian-based distributions * [Dotdeb](http://www.dotdeb.org/) - Repository with LAMP updated packages for Debian. ### RPM-based distributions * [ElRepo](http://elrepo.org/tiki/tiki-index.php) - Community Repo for Enterprise Linux (RHEL, CentOS, etc). * [EPEL](https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL) - Repository for RHEL and compatibles (CentOS, Scientific Linux). * [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-US/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. ## License  This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) license.