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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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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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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KairosDB

KairosDB is a fast distributed scalable time series database written on top of Cassandra. RESTful JSON-based query/results. Includes flot-based visualization.

     

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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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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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