DevOps Bookmarks

AWSBox

DIY Platform-as-a-Service tool specialized for NodeJS projects with AWS as the backend, and created by Mozilla

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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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Bolt is an open source orchestration tool that automates the manual work it takes to maintain your infrastructure. Use Bolt to automate tasks that you perform on an as-needed basis or as part of a greater orchestration workflow. For example, you can use Bolt to patch and update systems, troubleshoot servers, deploy applications, or stop and restart services. Bolt can be installed on your local workstation and connects directly to remote targets with SSH or WinRM, so you are not required to install any agent software.

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Buildstep

Buildstep uses Docker and small buildpack scripts to build applications like Heroku. It was used by Dokku to create a 100-line Heroku clone. There are many open source Buildpack scripts for various languages like Java, Ruby, Erlang, PHP, etc.

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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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Docker

Docker uses LXC to create and manage native, sandboxed virtual containers. LXC containers acts like a separate OSes, can install their own packages without affecting anything else, and overall have almost the same flexibility of VMs but without any of the virtualization overhead! Docker adds a ton of features, like an elegant configuration file that automates many things (like port forwarding, disk/directory mounting, networking, etc), a way to create and share readymade images that can be distributed as appliances, etc.

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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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FastForward

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

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Flynn

From the creator of Dokku, Flynn is a full fledged, open source PaaS platform built on top of Docker. You just push code with a Procfile, and that’s it, Flynn immediately picks it up, provisions a Docker container and deploys the latest code! Its tagged as “the product that ops gives to developers”

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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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Foreman

A complete lifecycle management tool for servers, both self-hosted and in the cloud. It allows you to create and manage instances, build and deploy images, view and audit hosts, and much more! It works with Puppet or Chef, and has multiple interaction facilities like a web frontend, CLI and a RESTful API.

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Gauntlt

Gauntlt provides hooks to a variety of security tools and puts them within reach of security, dev and ops teams to collaborate to build rugged software. It is built to facilitate testing and communication between groups and create actionable tests that can be hooked into your deploy and testing processes.

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GitLab

GitLab is an open-source, fully featured git web frontend developed using Ruby on Rails. You can host this in your own server, create projects, repositories and teams, manage fine grained access permissions, add wikis, collaborate, raise and merge pull requests, and do much more through the web! (Note: GitLab acquired Gitorious, another open source git management system, in March 2015)

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Gogs

A self-hosted Git service written in Go. Gogs(Go Git Service) is a painless self-hosted Git Service written in Go. The goal of this project is to make the easiest, fastest and most painless way to set up a self-hosted Git service. With Go, this can be done in independent binary distribution across ALL platforms that Go supports, including Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.

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InfluxDB

InfluxDB is a time series, metrics, and analytics database. It’s written in Go and has no external dependencies. InfluxDB is targeted at use cases for DevOps, metrics, sensor data, and real-time analytics.

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Kibana

Kibana is a modern, beautiful visualization tool that works seamlessly with Logstash and ElasticSearch. It features a no-code setup, realtime analytics, and much more.

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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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LXD

LXD is a next generation system container manager. It offers a user experience similar to virtual machines but using Linux containers instead. It's image based with pre-made images available for a wide number of Linux distributions and is built around a very powerful, yet pretty simple, REST API.

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Openshift

Openshift is a container management platform built around a core of Docker container packaging and Kubernetes cluster management. Origin is the upstream community project that powers OpenShift.

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Opskeleton

Bootstrap a DevOps infrastructure with some opinionated defaults (vagrant, puppet, librarian-puppet, git, etc), standard development guidelines, etc. Makes it very quick to get a DevOps team up and running

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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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Pallet

A tool to provision and maintain servers across various cloud platforms as well as virtual machine platforms, without any dependencies. Provides cloud and operating system independence.

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Prometheus

Prometheus is an open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit built at SoundCloud.

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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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Puppet

Puppet is a tool designed to manage the configuration of Unix-like and Microsoft Windows systems declaratively.

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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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tsuru

tsuru is an extensible and open source Platform as a Service (PaaS) that makes application deployments faster and easier. Its built upon Docker and allows you easily manage and scale your applications.