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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Fabric

Fabric is a python framework to configure deployment or system administration tasks, and then run those tasks on local or remote systems. It uses SSH heavily for interacting with remote systems, and uses Roles to group tasks

     

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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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SaltStack

Salt is a powerful and different approach to infrastructure management, by focusing on high speed communications between large number of systems, and can perform orchestration, remote code execution and much more.

     

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Vaurien

A Chaos Monkey for TCP, it randomly disconnects or stalls TCP connections in your application to test application tolerance and high availability. Makes sure you correctly handle these unexpected events

     

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