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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CloudRepo
Public and Private Maven and Python (PyPi) repositories. Fully managed and highly available repository hosting.
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Cloudsmith Package
Just Better Package Management. Manage your software dependencies and distribution with Enterprise-grade package management.
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Consul
Consul makes it simple for services to register themselves and to discover other services via a DNS or HTTP interface. Register external services such as SaaS providers as well
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Fabric
Fabric is a python framework to configure deployment or system administration tasks, and then run those tasks on local or remote systems. It uses SSH heavily for interacting with remote systems, and uses Roles to group tasks
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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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FPM
Effing Package Managers (FPM) is a single tool that can generate rpm, deb, solaris, osx (pkg) and many other packages. It supports multiple inputs (directory, gem, egg, deb, etc) and can produce multiple outputs (rpm, deb, solaris, etc). It relieves the pain out of creating various kinds of packages.
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Herd
A bittorrent based file distribution system based on Twitter’s Murder. It uses BitTorrent to push artifacts and code very fast across thousands of servers.
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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
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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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Puppet
Puppet is a tool designed to manage the configuration of Unix-like and Microsoft Windows systems declaratively.
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SaltStack
Salt is a powerful and different approach to infrastructure management, by focusing on high speed communications between large number of systems, and can perform orchestration, remote code execution and much 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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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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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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