Bento

A modularized collection of Packer definitions for building machine images. A good place to start with Packer.

     

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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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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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Chocolatey

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

     

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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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Gerrit

A Web based code review and project management system for Git projects

     

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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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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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Phabricator

Phabricator is an open source collection of development and code management, including code reviews and audits, browsing repositories, tracking bugs, etc

     

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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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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.

     

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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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