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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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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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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SignalFx
SignalFx is an advanced monitoring and alerting solution for modern infrastructure. With SignalFx, development and operations teams monitor, analyze, and alert in real-time on any time series data.
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