Basebox-Packer

A comprehensive set of Packer definitions. It has quite a collection of 64 bit and 32 bit images for Vagrant VirtualBox and VMWare. A good place to learn Packer definitions.

     

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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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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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Chocolatey

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

     

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Eucalyptus

An open source software for building Amazon EC2-compatible private and hybrid cloud platforms

     

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FAI

Fully Automatic Installation (FAI) is a tool for mass unattended deployment of Linux. You can take one or more virgin PCs, turn on the power, and after a few minutes, the systems are installed and completely configured.

     

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Rex

A agent-less server orchestration tool built on Perl

     

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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.

     

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Sunzi

A shell-based pure provisioning tool which doesn’t try to do anything else. Has no dependencies other than the shell

     

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