# Awesome Sysadmin [](https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome) [](https://github.com/awesome-foss/awesome-sysadmin/issues/416) **A curated list of amazingly awesome Free and Open-Source sysadmin resources.** Please read the [Pull Request template](./.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md) if you wish to add software and consider [donating](https://github.com/n1trux/awesome-donations) to the FLOSS projects you use regularly. Please consider contributing to fix one of the pinned [issues](https://github.com/awesome-foss/awesome-sysadmin/issues) if your time allows. -------------------- ### Table of contents - [Software](#software) - [Automation](#automation) - [Backups](#backups) - [Build and software organization tools](#build-and-software-organization-tools) - [ChatOps](#chatops) - [Client management](#client-management) - [Cloning](#cloning) - [Cloud Computing](#cloud-computing) - [Cloud Orchestration](#cloud-orchestration) - [Code Review](#code-review) - [Configuration Management Database](#configuration-management-database) - [Configuration Management](#configuration-management) - [Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment](#continuous-integration--continuous-deployment) - [Control Panels](#control-panels) - [Databases](#databases) - [Deployment Automation](#deployment-automation) - [Diagramming](#diagramming) - [Distributed Filesystems](#distributed-filesystems) - [DNS - Servers](#dns---servers) - [DNS - Control Panels](#dns---control-panels) - [DNS - Domain Management](#dns---domain-management) - [Editors](#editors) - [Identity Management](#identity-management) - [Identity Management - LDAP](#identity-management---ldap) - [Identity Management - Tools and web interfaces](#identity-management---tools-and-web-interfaces) - [Identity Management - Single Sign-On SSO](#identity-management---single-sign-on-sso) - [IT Asset Management](#it-asset-management) - [Log Management](#log-management) - [Mail Clients](#mail-clients) - [Monitoring](#monitoring) - [Status Pages](#status-pages) - [Metric & Metric Collection](#metric--metric-collection) - [Network Configuration Management](#network-configuration-management) - [Newsletters](#newsletters) - [Packaging](#packaging) - [Project Management](#project-management) - [Queuing](#queuing) - [Router](#router) - [Remote Management](#remote-management) - [Service Discovery](#service-discovery) - [Software Containers](#software-containers) - [Troubleshooting](#troubleshooting) - [Version control](#version-control) - [Virtualization](#virtualization) - [VPN](#vpn) - [Web](#web) - [List of Licenses](#list-of-licenses) - [External links](#external-links) - [Blogs](#blogs) - [Books](#books) - [Communities / Forums](#communities--forums) - [Newsletters](#newsletters) - [Repositories](#repositories) - [Websites](#websites) - [License](#license) -------------------- ## Software ### Automation **[`^ back to top ^`](#awesome-sysadmin)** *Automation build.* - [Apache Ant](https://ant.apache.org/) - Automation build tool, similar to make, a library and command-line tool whose mission is to drive processes described in build files as targets and extension points dependent upon each other. ([Source Code](https://github.com/apache/ant)) `Apache-2.0` `Java` - [Apache Maven](http://maven.apache.org/) - Build automation tool mainly for Java. A software project management and comprehension tool. Based on the concept of a project object model (POM), Maven can manage a project's build, reporting and documentation from a central piece of information. ([Source Code](https://github.com/apache/maven)) `Apache-2.0` `Java` - [Bazel](http://www.bazel.io/) - A fast, scalable, multi-language and extensible build system. Used by Google. ([Source Code](https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/)) `Apache-2.0` `Java` - [Bolt](https://puppet.com/products/bolt) - You can use Bolt to run one-off tasks, scripts to automate the provisioning and management of some nodes, you can use Bolt to move a step beyond scripts, and make them shareable. ([Source Code](https://github.com/puppetlabs/bolt)) `Apache-2.0` `Ruby` - [GNU Make](http://www.gnu.org/software/make/) - The most popular automation build tool for many purposes, make is a tool which controls the generation of executables and other non-source files of a program from the program's source files. ([Source Code](https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/make.git)) `GPL-3.0` `C` - [Gradle](http://gradle.org/) - Another build automation system. ([Source Code](https://github.com/gradle/gradle)) `Groovy/Java` `Apache-2.0` - [Rake](https://ruby.github.io/rake/) - Build automation tool similar to Make, written in and extensible in Ruby. ([Source Code](https://github.com/ruby/rake)) `MIT` `Ruby` ### Backups **[`^ back to top ^`](#awesome-sysadmin)** *Backup software.* Also see [Restic's list of Linux backup software](https://github.com/restic/others). - [Amanda](http://www.amanda.org/) - Client-server model backup tool. - [Backupninja](https://0xacab.org/liberate/backupninja) - Lightweight, extensible meta-backup system. - [BackupPC](https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/) - BackupPC is a high-performance system for backing up to disk. - [Bareos](http://www.bareos.org/en/) - A fork of Bacula backup tool. - [Barman](http://www.pgbarman.org) - Backup and Recovery Manager for disaster recovery of PostgreSQL servers. - [BorgBackup](https://github.com/borgbackup/borg) - A fork of [Attic](https://attic-backup.org) deduplicating backup program written in Python. - [Burp](http://burp.grke.org/) - Network backup and restore program. - [DREBS](https://github.com/dojo4/drebs) - AWS EBS backup script that supports strategies. - [Dar](http://dar.linux.free.fr/) - Which stands for Disk ARchive, is a robust and rich featured archiving and backup software of the tar style. ([Source Code](https://github.com/Edrusb/DAR)) `GPL-2.0` `C++` - [Duplicati](http://www.duplicati.com) - Multiple backends, encryption, web-ui and multi-OS backup tool. - [Duplicity](https://duplicity.gitlab.io/) - Encrypted bandwidth-efficient backup using the rsync algorithm. - [Elkarbackup](https://github.com/elkarbackup/elkarbackup) - Backup solution based on RSnapshot with a simple web interface - [rclone](https://rclone.org/) - a command line program to sync files and directories to and from several cloud storage systems/providers. - [Rdiff-backup](http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/) - An easy A remote incremental backup of all your files. - [Restic](https://restic.net/) - Secure, remote backup tool. Designed to be easy, fast, verifiable and efficient. - [Rsnapshot](http://rsnapshot.org/) - Filesystem Snapshotting Utility. - [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. - [ZBackup](http://zbackup.org/) - A versatile deduplicating backup tool. ### Build and software organization tools **[`^ back to top ^`](#awesome-sysadmin)** *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 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](http://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. - [Spack](https://spack.io/) - A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers. ### ChatOps **[`^ back to top ^`](#awesome-sysadmin)** *Conversation-driven development and management. See https://www.reddit.com/r/chatops for more information.* - [Eggdrop](http://www.eggheads.org/) - The oldest Internet Relay Chat (IRC) bot still in active development. ([Source Code](https://github.com/eggheads/eggdrop)) `GPL-2.0` `C` - [Errbot](http://errbot.io/) - a plugin based chatbot designed to be easily deployable, extensible and maintainable. ([Source Code](https://github.com/errbotio/errbot)) `GPL-3.0` `Python` - [Hubot](https://hubot.github.com/) - A customizable, life embetterment robot. ([Source Code](https://github.com/hubotio/hubot)) `MIT` `Nodejs` ### Client management **[`^ back to top ^`](#awesome-sysadmin)** Managing software on desktop computers. _See also: [IT Asset Management](#it-asset-management)_ - [Chocolatey](https://chocolatey.org/) – The package manager for Windows. ([Source Code](https://github.com/chocolatey/choco)) `Apache-2.0` `C#/PowerShell` ### Cloning **[`^ back to top ^`](#awesome-sysadmin)** *Cloning software.* - [Clonezilla](http://clonezilla.org/) - Partition and disk imaging/cloning program. ([Source Code](https://clonezilla.org/downloads/src/)) `GPL-2.0/Other` `Perl/Shell/Other` - [Fog](https://www.fogproject.org/) - Cloning/imaging solution/rescue suite. ([Sorce Code](https://github.com/FOGProject/fogproject)) `GPL-3.0` `PHP/Shell` ### Cloud Computing **[`^ back to top ^`](#awesome-sysadmin)** - [CloudStack](http://cloudstack.apache.org/) - Cloud computing software for creating, managing, and deploying infrastructure cloud services. ([Source Code](https://github.com/apache/cloudstack)) - [Cobbler](http://cobbler.github.io/) - Cobbler is a Linux installation server that allows for rapid setup of network installation environments. ([Source Code](https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler)) - [Mesos](http://mesos.apache.org/) - Develop and run resource-efficient distributed systems. - [OpenNebula](http://opennebula.org/) - User-driven cloud management platform for sysadmins and devops. - [Openshift](http://www.openshift.org) - PaaS product from Red Hat. - [OpenStack](https://www.openstack.org/) - Build private and public clouds. - [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 **[`^ back to top ^`](#awesome-sysadmin)** - [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-2.0` `Go` - [MCollective](https://puppet.com/mcollective) - Ruby framework to manage server orchestration, developed by Puppet labs. - [Nomad](https://www.nomadproject.io) - Simple and flexible orchestrator for Docker, Podman, executables, Java, and QEMU - ([Source Code](https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad), [Documentation](https://www.nomadproject.io/docs)) `MPL-2.0` `Go` - [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://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. - [Terraform](https://www.terraform.io/) - Terraform works with many cloud providers and creates infrastructure from code. ### Code Review **[`^ back to top ^`](#awesome-sysadmin)** *Web Based collaborative code review system.* - [Gerrit](https://www.gerritcodereview.com/) - 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. ### Configuration Management Database **[`^ back to top ^`](#awesome-sysadmin)** Configuration management database (CMDB) software. _See also: [IT Asset Management]([Ralph](#it-asset-management))_ - [Collins](http://tumblr.github.io/collins/) - At Tumblr, it's the infrastructure source of truth and knowledge. - [i-doit](http://www.i-doit.org/) - IT Documentation and CMDB. - [iTop](http://www.combodo.com/itop-193) - Complete ITIL web based service management tool. - [netbox](https://github.com/digitalocean/netbox) - IP address management (IPAM) and data center infrastructure management (DCIM) tool ### Configuration Management **[`^ back to top ^`](#awesome-sysadmin)** *Configuration management tools.* - [Ansible](http://www.ansible.com/) - It's written in Python and manages the nodes over SSH. - [CFEngine](https://cfengine.com/) - Lightweight agent system. Configuration state is specified via a declarative language. - [Chef](https://www.chef.io/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](https://puppet.com/) - It's written in Ruby and uses Puppet's declarative language or a Ruby DSL. - [Salt](http://saltstack.com/) - It's written in Python. ### Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment **[`^ back to top ^`](#awesome-sysadmin)** *Continuous integration/deployment software.* - [Buildbot](http://buildbot.net/) - Python-based toolkit for continuous integration. ([Source Code](https://github.com/buildbot/buildbot)) `GPL-2.0` `Python` - [CapsuleCD](https://analogj.github.io/capsulecd-slides/) - CD script for automating package/library releases (npm, cookbooks, gems, pip, jars, etc). ([Source Code](https://github.com/AnalogJ/capsulecd)) `MIT` `Go` - [CDS](https://ovh.github.io/cds/) - Enterprise-Grade Continuous Delivery & DevOps Automation Open Source Platform. ([Source Code](https://github.com/ovh/cds)) `BSD-3-Clause` `Go` - [Concourse](https://concourse-ci.org/) - Concourse is a CI tool that treats pipelines as first class objects and containerizes every step along the way. ([Demo](https://ci.concourse-ci.org/), [Source Code](https://github.com/concourse/concourse)) `Apache-2.0` `Go` - [drone](https://drone.io/) - Drone is a Continuous Delivery platform built on Docker, written in Go. ([Source Code](https://github.com/drone/drone)) `Apache-2.0` `Go` - [Factor](http://www.factor.io/) - Programmatically define and run workflows to connect configuration management, source code management, build, continuous integration, continuous deployment and communication tools. ([Source Code](https://github.com/factor-io/factor)) `MIT` `Ruby` - [GitLab CI](https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-ci/) - Gitlab's built-in, full-featured CI/CD solution. ([Source Code](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce)) `MIT` `Ruby` - [GoCD](http://www.go.cd/) - Continuous delivery server. ([Source Code](https://github.com/gocd/gocd)) `Apache-2.0` `Java/Ruby` - [GolangCI](https://golangci.com/) - Open Source automated code review service for Go integrated with GitHub pull requests. ([Source Code](https://github.com/golangci/golangci)) `AGPL-3.0` `Go` - [Jenkins](https://jenkins-ci.org/) - Continuous Integration Server. ([Source Code](https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/)) `MIT` `Java` - [Laminar](http://laminar.ohwg.net) - Fast, lightweight, simple and flexible Continuous Integration. ([Source Code](https://github.com/ohwgiles/laminar)) `GPL-3.0` `C++` - [PHP Censor](https://github.com/php-censor/php-censor) - Open source self-hosted continuous integration server for PHP projects. `BSD-2-Clause` `PHP` - [PHPCI](https://www.phptesting.org/) - Free and open source continuous integration specifically designed for PHP. ([Source Code](https://github.com/block8/phpci)) `BSD-2-Clause` `PHP` - [Strider](http://strider-cd.github.io/) - Open Source Continuous Deployment / Continuous Integration platform. ([Source Code](https://github.com/Strider-CD/strider)) `MIT` `Nodejs` - [werf](https://werf.io/) - Open Source CI/CD tool for building Docker images and deploying to Kubernetes via GitOps. ([Source Code](https://github.com/werf/werf)) `Apache-2.0` `Go` - [Woodpecker](https://woodpecker-ci.org/) - Community fork of Drone that uses Docker containers. ([Source Code](https://github.com/woodpecker-ci/woodpecker)) `Apache-2.0` `Go` ### Control Panels **[`^ back to top ^`](#awesome-sysadmin)** *Web hosting and server or service control panels.* - [Ajenti](http://ajenti.org/) - Control panel for Linux and BSD. ([Source Code](https://github.com/ajenti/ajenti)) `MIT` `Python/Shell` - [Cockpit](http://cockpit-project.org/) - web-based graphical interface for servers. ([Source Code](https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit)) `LGPL-2.1` `C` - [Froxlor](https://froxlor.org/) - Lightweight server management software with Nginx and PHP-FPM support. ([Source Code](https://github.com/Froxlor/Froxlor/)) `GPL-2.0` `PHP` - [ISPConfig](http://www.ispconfig.org) - Manage Linux servers directly through your browser. ([Source Code](https://git.ispconfig.org/ispconfig/ispconfig3)) `BSD-3-Clause` `PHP` - [Sentora](http://sentora.org/) - Open-Source Web hosting control panel for Linux, BSD (fork of ZPanel). ([Source Code](https://github.com/sentora/sentora-core)) `GPL-3.0` `PHP` - [VestaCP](http://vestacp.com/) - Open-Source hosting control panel. ([Source Code](https://github.com/serghey-rodin/vesta)) `GPL-3.0` `PHP/Shell/Other` - [Virtualmin](http://www.virtualmin.com/) - Powerful and flexible web hosting control panel for Linux and BSD systems. ([Source Code](https://github.com/virtualmin)) `GPL-3.0` `Shell/Perl/Other` - [Webmin](http://www.webmin.com/) - Web-based interface for system administration for Unix. ([Source Code](https://github.com/webmin/webmin)) `BSD-3-Clause` `Perl` ### Databases **[`^ back to top ^`](#awesome-sysadmin)** *Database servers.* **Please visit [dbdb.io - Database of Databases](https://dbdb.io/)** _See also: [awesome-selfhosted/Database Management](https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#database-management)_ ### Deployment Automation **[`^ back to top ^`](#awesome-sysadmin)** *Tools and scripts to support deployments to your servers.* - [Capistrano](http://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). - [munki](https://www.munki.org/munki/) - Webserver-based repository of packages and package metadata, that allows macOS administrators to manage software installs. - [Vlad the Deployer](https://github.com/seattlerb/vlad) - Deployment automation (rake based). ### Diagramming **[`^ back to top ^`](#awesome-sysadmin)** *Tools used to create diagrams of networks, flows, etc.* - [Diagrams.net](https://app.diagrams.net/) - A.K.A. [Draw.io](https://app.diagrams.net/). Easy to use Diagram UI with a plethora of templates. - [DrawThe.Net](http://go.drawthe.net/) - Javascript tool that uses a YAML-formatted input to programmatically create large, complex, and visually solid diagrams. - [Mermaid](https://mermaid-js.github.io/mermaid-live-editor/) - Javascript module with a unique, easy, shorthand syntax. Integrates into several other tools like Grafana. ### Distributed Filesystems **[`^ back to top ^`](#awesome-sysadmin)** *Network distributed filesystems.* - [Ceph](http://ceph.com/) - Distributed object store and file system. - [DRBD](http://drbd.linbit.com/) - Distributed Replicated Block Device. - [GlusterFS](http://www.gluster.org/) - Scale-out network-attached storage file system. - [Go IPFS](https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs) - Implementation of [IPFS](http://ipfs.io/), a global, versioned, peer-to-peer filesystem that seeks to connect all computing devices with the same system of files. - [HDFS](http://hadoop.apache.org/) - Distributed, scalable, and portable file-system written in Java for the Hadoop framework. - [LeoFS](http://leo-project.net) - Unstructured object/data storage and a highly available, distributed, eventually consistent storage system. - [Lustre](http://lustre.org/) - Parallel distributed file system, generally used for large-scale cluster computing. - [Minio](https://minio.io/) - Minio is an open source object storage server compatible with Amazon S3 APIs. ([Source Code](https://github.com/minio/minio)) `AGPL-3.0` `Go` - [MooseFS](http://www.moosefs.org/) - Fault tolerant, network distributed file system. - [OpenAFS](http://www.openafs.org/) - Distributed network file system with read-only replicas and multi-OS support. - [Perkeep](https://perkeep.org/) (née Camlistore) - A set of open source formats, protocols, and software for modeling, storing, searching, sharing and synchronizing data. - [SheepDog](https://sheepdog.github.io/sheepdog/) - A distributed Blockdevice, Rest, QEMU and distributed Filesystem storage. - [Swift](http://docs.openstack.org/developer/swift/) - A highly available, distributed, eventually consistent object/blob store. - [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 - Servers **[`^ back to top ^`](#awesome-sysadmin)** *DNS servers.* - [Bind](https://www.isc.org/bind/) - Versatile, classic, complete name server software. ([Source Code](https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/bind9)) `MPL-2.0` `C` - [CoreDNS](https://coredns.io/) - Flexible DNS server. ([Source Code](https://github.com/coredns/coredns)) `Apache-2.0` `Go` - [djbdns](http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html) - A collection of DNS applications, including tinydns. ([Source Code](https://salsa.debian.org/debian/djbdns)) `Public Domain` `C` - [dnsmasq](https://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/doc.html) - Provides network infrastructure for small networks: DNS, DHCP, router advertisement and network boot. ([Source Code](https://thekelleys.org.uk/gitweb/?p=dnsmasq.git;a=tree)) `GPL-2.0` `C` - [Knot](https://www.knot-dns.cz/) - High performance authoritative-only DNS server. ([Source Code](https://gitlab.nic.cz/knot/knot-dns)) `GPL-3.0` `C` - [NSD](https://www.nlnetlabs.nl/projects/nsd/about/) - Authoritative DNS name server developed speed, reliability, stability and security. ([Source Code](https://github.com/NLnetLabs/nsd)) `BSD-3-Clause` `C` - [PowerDNS Authoritative Server](https://doc.powerdns.com/authoritative/) - Versatile nameserver which supports a large number of backends.. ([Source Code](https://github.com/PowerDNS/pdns)) `GPL-2.0` `C++` - [Unbound](https://nlnetlabs.nl/projects/unbound/about/) - Validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver. ([Source Code](https://github.com/NLnetLabs/unbound)) `BSD-3-Clause` `C` - [Yadifa](https://www.yadifa.eu/) - Clean, small, light and RFC-compliant name server implementation developed from scratch by .eu. ([Source Code](https://github.com/yadifa/yadifa)) `BSD-3-Clause` `C` ### DNS - Control Panels **[`^ back to top ^`](#awesome-sysadmin)** *DNS server control panels.* - [Atomia DNS](http://atomiadns.com/) - DNS management system. ([Source Code](https://github.com/atomia/atomiadns/)) - [nsedit](https://github.com/tuxis-ie/nsedit) - nsedit is a DNS editor for PowerDNS, working with PowerDNS's new API. - [PDNS Gui](https://github.com/odoucet/pdns-gui) - WebGUI which aids in administering domains and records for PowerDNS with MySQL. - [Pi-hole](https://pi-hole.net/) - A blackhole for Internet Advertisements with a gui for managing and monitoring - [Poweradmin](http://www.poweradmin.org/) - Friendly web-based DNS administration tool for PowerDNS server. ### DNS - Domain Management **[`^ back to top ^`](#awesome-sysadmin)** *Domain management.* - [Designate](https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Designate) - DNSaaS services for OpenStack. ([Source Code](https://opendev.org/openstack/designate)) - [DNSControl](https://stackexchange.github.io/dnscontrol/) - Synchronize your DNS to multiple providers from a simple DSL. ([Source Code](https://github.com/StackExchange/dnscontrol)) `MIT` `Go/Docker` - [DomainMOD](https://domainmod.org) - Manage your domains and other internet assets in a central location. ([Source Code](https://github.com/domainmod/domainmod.git)) `GPL-3.0` `PHP` - [octoDNS](https://github.com/github/octodns) - DNS as code - Tools for managing DNS across multiple providers. `MIT` `Python` ### Editors **[`^ back to top ^`](#awesome-sysadmin)** *Open source code editors.* - [Atom Community](https://github.com/atom-community/atom) - A fork of [atom](https://github.com/atom/atom) A hackable text editor from Github. - [Brackets](http://brackets.io/) - Code editor for web designers and front-end developers. - [Eclipse](http://www.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](https://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. - [Micro](https://micro-editor.github.io/) - A modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor - [Nano](http://nano-editor.org) - Easy to use, customizable text editor. - [Notepad++](https://notepad-plus-plus.org/) - GPLv2 multi-language editor with syntax highlighting for Windows. - [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. - [VSCodium](https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium) - An open source cross-platform extensible code editor based on [VS Code by Microsoft](https://code.visualstudio.com/) removing their non-free additions. ### Identity Management **[`^ back to top ^`](#awesome-sysadmin)** *LDAP servers and other tools to manage accounts and identities.* ### Identity Management - LDAP **[`^ back to top ^`](#awesome-sysadmin)** - [389 Directory Server](https://www.port389.org/) - Enterprise-class Open Source LDAP server for Linux. ([Source Code](https://github.com/389ds/389-ds-base)) `GPL-3.0` `C` - [Apache Directory Server](https://directory.apache.org/apacheds/) - Extensible and embeddable directory server, certified LDAPv3 compatible, with Kerberos 5 and Change Password Protocol support, triggers, stored procedures, queues and views. ([Source Code](https://github.com/apache/directory-server)) `Apache-2.0` `Java` - [FreeIPA](https://www.freeipa.org/) - Integrated security information management solution combining Linux (Fedora), 389 Directory Server, Kerberos, NTP, DNS, and Dogtag Certificate System (web interface and command-line administration tools). ([Source Code](https://pagure.io/freeipa)) `GPL-3.0` `Python/C/JavaScript` - [FreeRADIUS](https://freeradius.org/) - Multi-protocol policy server (radiusd) that implements RADIUS, DHCP, BFD, and ARP and associated client/PAM library/Apache module. ([Source Code](https://github.com/FreeRADIUS/freeradius-server)) `GPL-2.0` `C` - [lldap](https://github.com/nitnelave/lldap) - Light (simplified) LDAP implementation with a simple, intuitive web interface and GraphQL support. `GPL-3.0` `Rust` - [OpenLDAP](https://www.openldap.org/) - Open-source implementation of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (server, libraries and clients). ([Source Code](https://git.openldap.org/openldap/openldap)) `OLDAP-2.8` `C` ### Identity Management - Tools and web interfaces **[`^ back to top ^`](#awesome-sysadmin)** - [BounCA](https://bounca.org/) - A personal SSL Key / Certificate Authority web-based tool for creating self-signed certificates. - [easy-rsa](https://github.com/OpenVPN/easy-rsa) - bash script to build and manage a PKI CA. - [Fusion Directory](https://www.fusiondirectory.org) - Improve the Management of the services and the company directory based on OpenLDAP. - [Indieauth](https://indieauth.com/) - Sign in with your domain name (using the rel-me-auth protocol). - [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. - [Libravatar](https://www.libravatar.org/) - Libravatar is a service which delivers your avatar (profile picture) to other websites. - [OpenID Connect](http://openid.net/developers/libraries/) - A Simple Identity layer on top of OAuth 2.0. - [OSIAM](http://osiam.github.io/) - Secure identity management solution providing REST based services for authentication and authorization. - [Pomerium](https://www.pomerium.io/) - An identity and context aware access-proxy inspired by BeyondCorp. - [Samba](https://www.samba.org/) – Active Directory and CIFS protocol implementation. - [Smallstep Certificates](https://smallstep.com/certificates/) - A private certificate authority (X.509 & SSH) and related tools for secure automated certificate management. - [ZITADEL](https://github.com/caos/zitadel) - Cloud-native Identity & Access Management solution providing a platform for secure authentication, authorization and identity management. ### Identity Management - Single Sign-On (SSO) **[`^ back to top ^`](#awesome-sysadmin)** - [Authelia](https://www.authelia.com/) - The Single Sign-On Multi-Factor portal for web apps. ([Source Code](https://github.com/authelia/authelia)) `Apache-2.0` `Go` - [KeyCloak](https://www.keycloak.org) - Open Source Identity and Access Management. ([Source Code](https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak)) `Apache-2.0` `Java` ### IT Asset Management **[`^ back to top ^`](#awesome-sysadmin)** *IT Assets Management software.* - [GLPI](https://www.glpi-project.org/) - Information Resource-Manager with an additional Administration Interface. ([Source Code](https://github.com/glpi-project/glpi)) - [OCS Inventory NG](https://ocsinventory-ng.org/) - Asset management and deployment solution for all devices in your IT Department. ([Source Code](https://github.com/OCSInventory-NG)) `GPL-2.0` `PHP/Perl` - [OPSI](http://www.opsi.org) - Hardware and software inventory, client management, deployment, and patching for Linux and Windows. ([Source Code](https://github.com/opsi-org/)) `GPL-3.0/AGPL-3.0` `OVF/Python` - [RackTables](http://racktables.org/) - Datacenter and server room asset management like document hardware assets, network addresses, space in racks, networks configuration. ([Source Code](https://github.com/RackTables/racktables), [Demo](https://www.racktables.org/demo.php)) `GPL-2.0` `PHP` - [Ralph](https://ralph.allegro.tech/) - Asset management, DCIM and CMDB system for large Data Centers as well as smaller LAN networks. ([Source Code](https://github.com/allegro/ralph), [Demo](https://github.com/allegro/ralph#live-demo)) `Apache-2.0` `Python/Docker` - [Snipe IT](https://snipeitapp.com/) - Asset & license management software. ([Source Code](https://github.com/snipe/snipe-it)) `AGPL-3.0` `PHP` ### Log Management **[`^ back to top ^`](#awesome-sysadmin)** *Log management tools: collect, parse, visualize ...* - [Fluentd](https://www.fluentd.org/) - Data collector for unified logging layer. ([Source Code](https://github.com/fluent/fluentd)) `Apache-2.0` `Ruby` - [Flume](https://flume.apache.org/) - distributed, reliable, and available service for efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log data. ([Source Code](https://github.com/apache/flume)) `Apache-2.0` `Java` - [GoAccess](https://goaccess.io/) - Real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal or through the browser. ([Source Code](https://github.com/allinurl/goaccess)) `MIT` `C` - [Loki](https://grafana.com/oss/loki/) - Log aggregation system designed to store and query logs from all your applications and infrastructure. ([Source Code](https://github.com/grafana/loki)) `AGPL-3.0` `Go` - [rsyslog](https://www.rsyslog.com/) - Rocket-fast system for log processing. ([Source Code](https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog)) `GPL-3.0` `C` ### Mail Clients **[`^ back to top ^`](#awesome-sysadmin)** - [Claws Mail](http://www.claws-mail.org/) - Old school email client (and news reader), based on GTK+. ([Source Code](https://git.claws-mail.org/?p=claws.git;a=tree)) - [ImapSync](http://imapsync.lamiral.info/) – Simple IMAP migration tool for copying mailboxes to other servers. ([Source Code](https://github.com/imapsync/imapsync)) - [Mutt](http://www.mutt.org/) - Small but very powerful text-based mail client. ([Source Code](https://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt)) - [Sylpheed](http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/) – Still developed predecessor to Claws Mail, lightweight mail client. ([Source Code](https://github.com/sylpheed-mail/sylpheed)) - [Thunderbird](https://www.thunderbird.net/) - Free email application that's easy to set up and customize. ([Source Code](https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/file)) ### Monitoring **[`^ back to top ^`](#awesome-sysadmin)** *Monitoring software.* - [Adagios](http://adagios.org/) - Web based Nagios interface for configuration and monitoring (replacement to the standard interface), and a REST interface. ([Source Code](https://github.com/opinkerfi/adagios)) `AGPL-3.0` `Docker/Python` - [Alerta](https://alerta.io/) - Distributed, scaleable and flexible monitoring system. ([Source Code](https://github.com/alerta/alerta)) `Apache-2.0` `Python` - [Bloonix](https://bloonix-monitoring.org/) - Bloonix is a monitoring solution that helps businesses to ensure high availability and performance. ([Source Code](https://github.com/bloonix)) `GPL-3.0` `Perl` - [Bosun](http://bosun.org/) - Monitoring and alerting system by Stack Exchange ([Source Code](https://github.com/bosun-monitor/bosun)) `MIT` `Go` - [Cabot](http://cabotapp.com/) - Monitoring and alerts, similar to PagerDuty. ([Source Code](https://github.com/arachnys/cabot)) `MIT` `Python` - [Cacti](http://www.cacti.net) - Web-based network monitoring and graphing tool. ([Source Code](https://github.com/Cacti/cacti)) `GPL-2.0` `PHP` - [cadvisor](https://github.com/google/cadvisor) - Analyzes resource usage and performance characteristics of running containers ([Source Code](https://github.com/google/cadvisor)) `Apache-2.0` `Go` - [checkmk](https://checkmk.com/) - Comprehensive solution for monitoring of applications, servers, and networks. ([Source Code](https://github.com/tribe29/checkmk)) `Python/PHP` - [dashdot](https://github.com/MauriceNino/dashdot) - A simple, modern server dashboard for smaller private servers. ([Demo](https://dash.mauz.io)) `MIT` `Nodejs/Docker` - [EdMon](https://github.com/Edraens/EdMon) - A command-line monitoring application helping you to check that your hosts and services are available, with notifications support. `MIT` `Java` - [eZ Server Monitor](http://www.ezservermonitor.com) - A lightweight and simple dashboard monitor for Linux, available in Web and Bash application. ([Source Code](https://github.com/shevabam/ezservermonitor-web)) `GPL-3.0` `PHP/Shell` - [Healthchecks](https://healthchecks.io/docs/self_hosted/) - Monitoring for cron jobs, background services and scheduled tasks. ([Source Code](https://github.com/healthchecks/healthchecks)) `BSD-3-Clause` `Python` - [Icinga](https://www.icinga.com/) - Nagios fork that has since lapped nagios several times. Comes with the possibility of clustered monitoring. ([Source Code](https://github.com/Icinga/icinga2)) `GPL-2.0` `C++` - [LibreNMS](http://www.librenms.org) - Fully featured network monitoring system that provides a wealth of features and device support. ([Source Code](https://github.com/librenms/librenms)) `GPL-3.0` `PHP` - [Linux Dash](https://github.com/afaqurk/linux-dash) - A low-overhead monitoring web dashboard for a GNU/Linux machine. `MIT` `Nodejs/Go/Python/PHP` - [Monit](http://mmonit.com/monit/#home) - Small utility for managing and monitoring Unix systems. ([Source Code](https://bitbucket.org/tildeslash/monit/src/master/)) `AGPL-3.0` `C` - [Munin](http://munin-monitoring.org/) - Networked resource monitoring tool. ([Source Code](https://github.com/munin-monitoring/munin)) `GPL-2.0` `Perl/Shell` - [Naemon](http://www.naemon.org/) - Network monitoring tool based on the Nagios 4 core with performance enhancements and new features. ([Source Code](https://github.com/naemon/naemon-core)) `GPL-2.0` `C` - [Nagios](https://www.nagios.org/) - Computer system, network and infrastructure monitoring software application. ([Source Code](https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore)) `GPL-2.0` `C` - [Netdata](https://www.netdata.cloud/) - Distributed, real-time, performance and health monitoring for systems and applications. Runs on Linux, FreeBSD, and MacOS. ([Source Code](https://github.com/netdata/netdata)) `GPL-3.0` `C` - [NetXMS](https://www.netxms.org/) - Open Source network and infrastructure monitoring and management. ([Source Code](https://github.com/netxms/netxms)) `LGPL-3.0/GPL-3.0` `Java/C++/C` - [Observium](http://www.observium.org/) - SNMP monitoring for servers and networking devices. Runs on linux. - [OMD](http://omdistro.org/) - The Open Monitoring Distribution. - [Performance Co-Pilot](http://pcp.io) - Lightweight, distributed system performance and analysis framework. - [PHP Server Monitor](https://www.phpservermonitor.org/) - Open source tool to monitor your servers and websites. ([Source Code](https://github.com/phpservermon/phpservermon)) - [PhpSysInfo](https://phpsysinfo.github.io/phpsysinfo/) - A customizable PHP script that displays information about your system nicely. ([Source Code](https://github.com/phpsysinfo/phpsysinfo)) - [pyDash](https://k3oni.github.io/pydash/) - Small web-based monitoring dashboard for linux. ([Source Code](https://gitlab.com/k3oni/pydash)) - [Riemann](http://riemann.io/) - Flexible and fast events processor allowing complex events/metrics analysis. ([Source Code](https://github.com/riemann/riemann)) - [rtop](https://github.com/rapidloop/rtop) - an interactive, remote system monitoring tool based on SSH. ([Source Code](https://github.com/rapidloop/rtop)) - [Scrutiny](https://github.com/AnalogJ/scrutiny) - Hard Drive S.M.A.R.T Monitoring, Historical Trends & Real World Failure Thresholds - [Sensu](https://sensu.io/) - Monitoring tool for ephemeral infrastructure and distributed applications. ([Source Code](https://github.com/sensu/sensu-go)) - [Status](https://github.com/dani3l0/Status) - Simple and lightweight system monitoring tool for small homeservers with a pleasant web interface. ([Demo](https://status-ksk5.onrender.com/)) `MIT` `Python` - [Thruk](http://www.thruk.org/) - Multibackend monitoring web interface with support for Naemon, Nagios, Icinga and Shinken. ([Source Code](https://github.com/sni/Thruk)) - [Zabbix](http://www.zabbix.com/) - Enterprise-class software for monitoring of networks and applications. ([Source Code](https://git.zabbix.com/projects/ZBX/repos/zabbix/browse)) ### Status Pages **[`^ back to top ^`](#awesome-sysadmin)** **Please visit [awesome-selfhosted/Status / Uptime Pages](https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#status--uptime-pages)** ### Metric & Metric Collection **[`^ back to top ^`](#awesome-sysadmin)** *Metric gathering and display software.* * Collectors only - [Collectd](http://collectd.org/) - System statistic collection daemon. - [Collectl](http://collectl.sourceforge.net/) - High precision system performance metrics collecting tool. - [Diamond](https://github.com/python-diamond/Diamond) - Python based statistic collection daemon. - [Statsd](https://github.com/etsy/statsd/) - Application statistic listener. - [tcollector](http://opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/user_guide/utilities/tcollector.html) - System statistic collection daemon written in Python for OpenTSDB - [Telegraf](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf) - The plugin-driven server agent for collecting & reporting metrics. * Dashboards - [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. - [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 for the internet of things. 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. - [RRDtool](http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/) - Industry standard, high performance data logging and graphing system for time series data. * Storage - [InfluxDB](https://influxdb.com/) - Distributed time series database with no external dependencies. - [KairosDB](https://github.com/kairosdb/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. * Packages - [Graphite](http://graphite.readthedocs.org/en/latest/) - Scalable graphing server. - [Packetbeat](https://www.elastic.co/products/beats) - 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. - [VictoriaMetrics](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics) - Service monitoring system and time series database. ### Network Configuration Management **[`^ back to top ^`](#awesome-sysadmin)** *Network configuration management tools.* - [GNS3](https://www.gns3.com/) - Graphical network simulator that provides a variety of virtual appliances. ([Source Code](https://github.com/GNS3/gns3-gui/)) `GPL-3.0` `Python` - [OpenWISP](https://openwisp.org/) - Open Source Network Management System for OpenWRT based routers and access points. ([Demo](https://openwisp.org/demo.html), [Source Code](https://github.com/openwisp)) `GPL-3.0` `Python` - [Oxidized](https://github.com/ytti/oxidized) - Network device configuration backup tool. `Apache-2.0` `Ruby` - [phpIPAM](http://phpipam.net/) - Open source IP address management with PowerDNS integration. ([Source Code](https://github.com/phpipam/phpipam)) `GPL-3.0` `PHP` - [RANCID](http://www.shrubbery.net/rancid/) - Monitor network devices configuration and maintain history of changes. ([Source Code](https://github.com/haussli/rancid)) `BSD-3-Clause` `Perl/Shell` - [rConfig](http://www.rconfig.com/) - Network device configuration management tool. ([Source Code](https://github.com/rconfig/rconfig)) `GPL-3.0` `PHP` ### Newsletters **[`^ back to top ^`](#awesome-sysadmin)** *Newsletter software.* - [DadaMail](http://dadamailproject.com/) - Mailing List Manager, written in Perl. - [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. - [LibreMailer](https://github.com/averna-syd/LibreMailer) - Libre Mailer is a modest and simple web based email marketing application. - [phpList](https://www.phplist.com/) - Newsletter manager written in PHP. ### Packaging **[`^ back to top ^`](#awesome-sysadmin)** - [aptly](https://www.aptly.info/) - Swiss army knife for Debian repository management. ([Source Code](https://github.com/aptly-dev/aptly)) `MIT` `Go` - [fpm](https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm) - Versatile multi format package creator. - [omnibus-ruby](https://github.com/chef/omnibus) - 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 **[`^ back to top ^`](#awesome-sysadmin)** *Web-based project management and bug tracking systems* **Please visit [awesome-selfhosted/Project Management](https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#project-management)** ### Queuing **[`^ back to top ^`](#awesome-sysadmin)** - [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. ### Remote Management **[`^ back to top ^`](#awesome-sysadmin)** - [Remmina](http://www.remmina.org/) - A Feature rich remote desktop application for linux and other unixes. - [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. - [X2go](http://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php) - X2Go is an open source remote desktop software for Linux that uses the NX technology protocol. ### Router * [DD-WRT](https://dd-wrt.com/) - A Linux-based firmware for wireless routers and access points, originally designed for the Linksys WRT54G series. ([Source Code](https://svn.dd-wrt.com/)) `GPL-2.0` `C` * [OpenWrt](https://openwrt.org/) - A Linux-based router featuring Mesh networking, IPS via snort and AQM among many other features. ([Source Code](https://git.openwrt.org/openwrt/openwrt.git)) `GPL-2.0` `C` * [OPNsense](https://opnsense.org/) - An open source FreeBSD-based firewall and router with traffic shaping, load balancing, and virtual private network capabilities. ([Source Code](https://github.com/opnsense)) `BSD-2-Clause` `C` `PHP` ### Service Discovery **[`^ back to top ^`](#awesome-sysadmin)** - [Consul](https://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 **[`^ back to top ^`](#awesome-sysadmin)** *Operating system–level virtualization.* - [Docker Compose](https://docs.docker.com/compose/) - Define and run multi-container Docker applications. - [Docker Swarm](https://docs.docker.com/engine/swarm/) - Manage cluster of Docker Engines. - [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. - [LXD](https://linuxcontainers.org/lxd/) – a container "hypervisor" and a better UX for LXC. - [OpenVZ](http://openvz.org) - Container-based virtualization for Linux. - [Podman](https://podman.io) - Daemonless container engine for developing, managing, and running OCI Containers on your Linux System. Containers can either be run as root or in rootless mode. Simply put: `alias docker=podman`. ([Source Code](https://github.com/containers/podman)) `Apache-2.0` `Go` - [Portainer](https://portainer.io/) - Simple management UI for Docker. - [systemd-nspawn](https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-nspawn.html) - Lightweight, chroot-like, environment to run an OS or command directly under systemd. ([Source Code](https://github.com/systemd/systemd)) `GPL-2.0` `C` ### Troubleshooting **[`^ back to top ^`](#awesome-sysadmin)** *Troubleshooting Tools.* - [grml](https://grml.org) – bootable Debian Live CD with powerful CLI tools. - [mitmproxy](http://mitmproxy.org/) - A Python tool used for intercepting, viewing and modifying network traffic. Invaluable in troubleshooting certain problems. - [mtr](https://www.bitwizard.nl/mtr/) - Network utility that combines traceroute and ping. - [perf-tools](https://github.com/brendangregg/perf-tools) - Performance analysis tools based on Linux perf_events (aka perf) and ftrace. - [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 **[`^ back to top ^`](#awesome-sysadmin)** *Software versioning and revision control.* - [Darcs](http://darcs.net/) - Patch-based distributed version control (more info: [wiki](http://darcs.net/Theory/PekkaPatchTheory)) - [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](https://www.mercurial-scm.org/) - Another distributed revision control. - [Subversion](http://subversion.apache.org/) - Client-server revision control system. ### Virtualization **[`^ back to top ^`](#awesome-sysadmin)** *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](http://www.ganeti.org/) - 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. - [OpenNode](http://opennodecloud.com) - Builds open-source infrastructure management software and implements cloud systems. - [oVirt](http://www.ovirt.org/) - Manages virtual machines, storage and virtual networks. - [Packer](https://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. - [XCP-ng](http://www.xcp-ng.org/) - Based on Citrix XenServer, XCP-ng is a fully open source virtualization platform. - [Xen](http://www.xenproject.org/) - Virtual machine monitor for 32/64 bit Intel / AMD (IA 64) and PowerPC 970 architectures. ### VPN **[`^ back to top ^`](#awesome-sysadmin)** *VPN software.* - [Dockovpn](https://dockovpn.io) - Out-of-the-box stateless dockerized OpenVPN server which starts in less than 2 seconds. - [Firezone](https://www.firez.one/) - WireGuard based VPN Server and Firewall. - [Headscale](https://github.com/juanfont/headscale) - Self-hostable fork of [Tailscale](https://tailscale.com), cross-platform clients, simple to use, built-in (currently experimental) monitoring tools. - [Nebula](https://github.com/slackhq/nebula) - A scalable p2p VPN with a focus on performance, simplicity and security. - [ocserv](http://www.infradead.org/ocserv/) - Cisco AnyConnect-compatible VPN server - [OpenVPN](https://community.openvpn.net) - Uses a custom security protocol that utilizes SSL/TLS for key exchange. - [PiVPN](https://www.pivpn.io/) - The simplest way to setup and manage a VPN, designed for Raspberry Pi. ([Source Code](https://github.com/pivpn/pivpn)) `MIT` `Shell` - [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/sshuttle/sshuttle) - Poor man's VPN. - [strongSwan](https://www.strongswan.org/) - Complete IPsec implementation for Linux. - [tinc](http://www.tinc-vpn.org/) - Distributed p2p VPN. - [WireGuard](https://www.wireguard.com/) - Very fast VPN based on elliptic curve and public key crypto. ### Web **[`^ back to top ^`](#awesome-sysadmin)** [Web servers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_server) and [reverse proxies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_proxy). - [Algernon](https://algernon.roboticoverlords.org/) - Small self-contained pure-Go web server with Lua, Markdown, HTTP/2, QUIC, Redis and PostgreSQL support. ([Source Code](https://github.com/xyproto/algernon)) `BSD-3-Clause` `Go` - [Apache HTTP Server](https://httpd.apache.org/) - Secure, efficient and extensible server that provides HTTP services in sync with the current HTTP standards. ([Source Code](https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/branches/2.4.x/)) `Apache-2.0` `C` - [Caddy](https://caddyserver.com/) - Powerful, enterprise-ready, open source web server with automatic HTTPS. ([Source Code](https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy)) `Apache-2.0` `Go` - [HAProxy](https://www.haproxy.org/) - Very fast and reliable reverse-proxy offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications. ([Source Code](https://git.haproxy.org/?p=haproxy.git;a=tree)) `GPL-2.0` `C` - [Hiawatha](https://www.hiawatha-webserver.org/) - An advanced and secure webserver for Unix. ([Source Code](https://gitlab.com/hsleisink/hiawatha)) `GPL-2.0` `C` - [Lighttpd](https://www.lighttpd.net/) - Secure, fast, compliant, and very flexible web server that has been optimized for high-performance environments. ([Source Code](https://git.lighttpd.net/lighttpd/lighttpd1.4)) `BSD-3-Clause` `C` - [Nginx](https://nginx.org/en/) - HTTP and reverse proxy server, mail proxy server, and generic TCP/UDP proxy server. ([Source Code](https://hg.nginx.org/nginx/file/tip)) `BSD-2-Clause` `C` - [Traefik](https://traefik.io/) - HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer that makes deploying microservices easy. ([Source Code](https://github.com/traefik/traefik)) `MIT` `Go/Docker` - [Varnish](https://varnish-cache.org/) - Web application accelerator/caching HTTP reverse proxy. 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Provides updated packages of Ruby, Python, etc. for CentOS/Scientific Linux 6.x. ## Websites - [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. - [Awesome SysAdmin @ LibHunt](https://sysadmin.libhunt.com) - Your go-to SysAdmin Toolbox. Based on the list here. - [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. ------------------ ## License  This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) license.