Boxstarter

Repeatable, reboot resilient windows environment installations made easy using Chocolatey packages. When its time to repave either bare metal or virtualized instances, locally or on a remote machine, Boxstarter can automate both trivial and highly complex installations. Compatible with all Windows versions from Windows 7/2008 R2 forward.

     

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Brooklyn

A Java based deployment tool, focused on both deployment as well as post-deploy lifecycle management. It is aware of network topologies, integrates with many cloud and PaaS APIs, and is designed to handle the entire roll-out

     

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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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Chocolatey

Chocolatey is like apt-get for Windows. It can install packages and dependencies over the command line.

     

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Errbit

An open source, self-hosted error catching tool, which can collect and manage errors from other applications. It is compatible with the Airbrake API and can be used as a drop-in replacement.

     

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FastForward

Flexible operating-system event and metric forwarding agent. Receives input and forwards output using plugins.

     

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FnordMetric

A HTML5/Javascript API for collecting and visualizing time series data

     

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Fog

The Ruby Cloud API library. Provides a Ruby API for interacting and managing many cloud providers, such as spinning up new instances, terminating old ones, attaching storage, etc. Currently supports more than 20 providers, including EC2, Rackspace, Brightbox, etc.

     

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jclouds

A Java Library for controlling cloud resources, with various plugins for many popular cloud providers.

     

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jmxtrans

Plugs Java VM statistics via JMX to various backend monitoring tools

     

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Logstash

A modern tool for managing events and logs, with an ElasticSearch backend which allows a high degree of searching and filtering. It includes a shipper in remote systems, indexer in the aggregator machine, and a Web UI.

     

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Metrics

Captures JVM and application-level metrics for Java

     

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Monigusto

A collection of Chef recipes to install various monitoring tools (such as sensu, statsd, etc). Makes it a breeze to get a monitoring infrastructure up and running

     

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Orc

A model driven orchestration tool for deployment of application clusters

     

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Pallet

A tool to provision and maintain servers across various cloud platforms as well as virtual machine platforms, without any dependencies. Provides cloud and operating system independence.

     

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Puppet Dashboard

A web interface for Puppet. It can view and analyze Puppet reports, assign Puppet classes and parameters to nodes, view inventory data and backed-up file contents, etc.

     

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Sentry

Automate error tracking to find and fix issues before your users even experience a crash. Sentry is open-source, real-time, and loved by 100,000 developers around the world.

     

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Soloist

Soloist lets you quickly and easily converge Chef recipes using chef-solo.

     

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Statman

Statman makes it possible to instrument and collect statistics from your high-traffic production Erlang systems with very low overhead. The collected data points are aggregated in the VM and can be sent to services like Graphite, Munin, New Relic, etc.

     

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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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