Bento
A modularized collection of Packer definitions for building machine images. A good place to start with Packer.
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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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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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Chocolatey
Chocolatey is like apt-get for Windows. It can install packages and dependencies over the command line.
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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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jclouds
A Java Library for controlling cloud resources, with various plugins for many popular cloud providers.
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Orc
A model driven orchestration tool for deployment of application clusters
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Soloist
Soloist lets you quickly and easily converge Chef recipes using chef-solo.
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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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