Bento
A modularized collection of Packer definitions for building machine images. A good place to start with Packer.
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Chef
Configuration management tool which uses a pure-Ruby, domain-specific language (DSL) for writing system configuration recipes. Supports Linux, UNIX, Windows, and AIX as first-class citizens for management.
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ConfigCat
ConfigCat is a feature flags as a service. It gives you a web based dashboard to manage your feature flags + SDKs to integrate those feature flags into your applications. ConfigCat enables you to use the same feature flags in your mobile apps, websites and server-side applications. It offers all features for free. You get an enterprise-ready SLA with the pricing plans.
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DeployKit
A generic integration tool built on a Message Queue, to make it easy to communicate events and triggers across various parts parts of the infrastructure. Created to ease the pain of configuring many disparate events in a CI
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Fig
A package management tool, similar to Ivy/APT, but language agnostic, faster and works well with both executables and libraries.
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Hubot
Hubot is a chat bot that can be configured to do a variety of tasks. Apart from usual CI stuff like deploying, it can be interestingly configured to do different workflows like posting images, translating languages and integrating with Google Maps, and being a bot, it can be configured to ask questions like what is the current deployed version, etc.
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Puppet
Puppet is a tool designed to manage the configuration of Unix-like and Microsoft Windows systems declaratively.
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Vagrant Cachier
A Vagrant plugin that helps you reduce the amount of coffee you drink while waiting for boxes to be provisioned by sharing a common package cache among similiar VM instances.
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Vagrant
Vagrant is a cross platform tool to create, boot, configure and destroy development environments. It provides a simple configuration-based approach to take a base image, boot it up, provision it (using any other provisioners), SSH, port forward, and much more. It automates the process of booting up and configuring virtual machines. It supports various providers like VirtualBox, VMWare, AWS, LXC, etc.
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Veewee
veewee is a great tool for building Virtual Machine images (aka base boxes). It automates most of the steps and allows you to easily create readymade images for VirtualBox/Vagrant, VMWare Fusion, KVM and Parallels. No longer need to shy away from building custom VM images!
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