Bento
A modularized collection of Packer definitions for building machine images. A good place to start with Packer.
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Boxen
Boxen automates the entire process of setting up a Mac development environment. It can clone your project, install toolchains, apply security policies, clone your dotfiles and much more.
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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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Capistrano
The Ruby equivalent of Fabric, Capistrano is a Ruby framework to configure and run deployment or system administration tasks on local or remote machines. It extends the Rake DSL to define tasks, and can group tasks by Roles.
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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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Fabric8
fabric8 is an end to end development platform spanning ideation to production for the creation of cloud native applications and microservices
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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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Mina
A Ruby Rake-like DSL for fast deployment and automation, similar to Capistrano but faster and lesser overhead, since it creates only a single SSH connection for a deploy
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Nomad
Nomad is a lightweight workload orchestrator. It offers client instance scaling as well as workload scaling.
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Orc
A model driven orchestration tool for deployment of application clusters
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Packer
Packer is a tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms (like VirtualBox, VMWare, EC2, DigitalOcean, etc) from a single configuration file.
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Pulumi
Create, deploy, and manage Cloud Native infrastructure, as real code. A single toolset for infrastructure, managed services, containers, and serverless environments on any cloud infrastructure. You get all the benefits of real programming languages; IDEs, abstractions and reuse thanks to functions, classes, and packages, debugging, testability, and more
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Serf
Serf is a service discovery and orchestration tool which is highly decentralized, highly available, fault tolerant, cross platform and extremely lightweight.
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Soloist
Soloist lets you quickly and easily converge Chef recipes using chef-solo.
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Terraform
Terraform provides a common configuration to launch infrastructure from different providers (AWS, Digital Ocean, Heroku, etc.). It provides dependency resolution to make sure that your infrastructure is created in the right order
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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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werf
werf is CI/CD tool for building Docker images and delivering them to Kubernetes using a GitOps approach. It integrates with any existing CI systems including GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, etc.
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