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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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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Chocolatey
Chocolatey is like apt-get for Windows. It can install packages and dependencies over the command line.
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Dead Man’s Snitch
A cron job monitoring tool that keeps an eye on your crontab and notifies you when something doesn’t happen.
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Errbit
An open source, self-hosted error catching tool, which can collect and manage errors from other applications. It is compatible with the Airbrake API and can be used as a drop-in replacement.
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FastForward
Flexible operating-system event and metric forwarding agent. Receives input and forwards output using plugins.
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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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FnordMetric
A HTML5/Javascript API for collecting and visualizing time series data
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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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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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Honeybadger
Honeybadger is a hosted monitoring service that tracks errors happening in your applications, aggregates them, and notifies you about them based on rules you define. Honeybadger gives you the insight you need to diagnose and fix application errors, faster.
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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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Monigusto
A collection of Chef recipes to install various monitoring tools (such as sensu, statsd, etc). Makes it a breeze to get a monitoring infrastructure up and running
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Puppet Dashboard
A web interface for Puppet. It can view and analyze Puppet reports, assign Puppet classes and parameters to nodes, view inventory data and backed-up file contents, etc.
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Sensu
Sensu is a simple, malleable and scalable monitoring framework which is highly composable
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Sentry
Automate error tracking to find and fix issues before your users even experience a crash. Sentry is open-source, real-time, and loved by 100,000 developers around the world.
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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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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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