Berkshelf

A cookbook source structure manager for Chef, similar to Bundler for Ruby. Each Chef cookbook can be structured as an individual entity and can be pulled into your main Chef workflows.

     

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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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ConDep

ConDep is a open source infrastructure configuration and deployment DSL (Domain Specific Language) specifically targeted to (but not limited to) the Windows Server platform. If your familiar with tools like Chef and Puppet, ConDep does very much the same, but with native support for Windows.

     

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FastForward

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

     

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Instrumental

Instrumental is a real-time, high-scale application and server monitoring tool with intelligent alerts, a powerful query language, and free development accounts.

     

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Librarian-Puppet

Librarian-Puppet is a source structure and dependency manager for Puppet modules, similar to bundler for Ruby. Each Puppet module can be managed as a separate source repository with individual versioning, and can then be pulled into your Puppetfile.

     

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Monit

An open source utility for managing and monitoring processes, programs, files, directories and filesystems

     

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PowerShell Desired State Configuration

DSC is a new management platform in Windows PowerShell that enables deploying and managing configuration data for software services and managing the environment in which these services run.

     

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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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