Bento
A modularized collection of Packer definitions for building machine images. A good place to start with Packer.
linux windows osx open-source virt ruby
Brood
A Deployment framework written in PHP. Can deploy to multiple servers using Gearman.
linux windows osx open-source provisioning php
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
linux windows osx open-source provisioning orchestration java
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.
linux windows open-source provisioning config-mgmt ruby
Fig
A package management tool, similar to Ivy/APT, but language agnostic, faster and works well with both executables and libraries.
linux windows osx open-source packaging ruby
MCollective
Marionette Collective (MCollective) is an orchestration framework built on top of Puppet. It can interact with a large number of servers (using a pub-sub middleware) and can execute jobs in parallel
linux windows osx free orchestration ruby
Orc
A model driven orchestration tool for deployment of application clusters
linux windows osx open-source provisioning orchestration ruby
Puppet
Puppet is a tool designed to manage the configuration of Unix-like and Microsoft Windows systems declaratively.
linux windows osx open-source config-mgmt ruby
Rundeck
Turns your operational procedures into self-service portal. Define common operational tasks in the Rundeck web portal, and safely hand it over to the rest of the team so that they can perform these tasks without you being around.
linux windows osx open-source orchestration java
Soloist
Soloist lets you quickly and easily converge Chef recipes using chef-solo.
linux windows osx open-source provisioning ruby
Supervisord Monitor
Supervisord Monitor is multi server monitoring tool for supervisor - watch, start and stop all your supervisord instances and servvices from one place.
linux windows osx open-source monitoring provisioning php process-mgmt
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.
linux windows osx open-source virt artifacts ruby
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.
linux windows osx open-source virt provisioning ruby
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!
linux osx windows open-source virt packaging ruby