Ansible
A versatile orchestration engine that can automate systems and apps. Instead of a custom scripting language or code, it is very simple and shell based. It is also agent-less, so you can just start using it right away and get things done
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Basebox-Packer
A comprehensive set of Packer definitions. It has quite a collection of 64 bit and 32 bit images for Vagrant VirtualBox and VMWare. A good place to learn Packer definitions.
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Batou
Batou makes it easy to perform automated deployments. It combines Fabric's simplicty and SSH automation, with Puppet's declarative syntax and idempotence
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Bento
A modularized collection of Packer definitions for building machine images. A good place to start with Packer.
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Bolt
Bolt is an open source orchestration tool that automates the manual work it takes to maintain your infrastructure. Use Bolt to automate tasks that you perform on an as-needed basis or as part of a greater orchestration workflow. For example, you can use Bolt to patch and update systems, troubleshoot servers, deploy applications, or stop and restart services. Bolt can be installed on your local workstation and connects directly to remote targets with SSH or WinRM, so you are not required to install any agent software.
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boot2docker
boot2docker is a lightweight Linux distribution based on Tiny Core Linux made specifically to run Docker containers. It runs completely from RAM, weighs ~24MB and boots in a couple of seconds. Can be used as a base OS when running your own PaaS with Docker, or other kind of deployments.
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Brood
A Deployment framework written in PHP. Can deploy to multiple servers using Gearman.
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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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Capistrano
The Ruby equivalent of Fabric, Capistrano is a Ruby framework to configure and run deployment or system administration tasks on local or remote machines. It extends the Rake DSL to define tasks, and can group tasks by Roles.
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Cft
Cft watches as you make changes to your server, and then creates puppet manifests for the resulting actions. Simplifies creating puppet configuration.
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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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Cloudify
Cloudify is a pure play, open source cloud orchestration and automation software. It's used for a variety of needs, from autonomous application management, to uses like NFV orchestration. It was built from the bottom up as a cloud orchestration framework, and is built to be pluggable to any infrastructure. Its also the most extensive implementation of TOSCA, which makes it completely technology agnostic.
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CloudStack
Apache CloudStack is open source software designed to deploy and manage large networks of virtual machines, as a highly available, highly scalable Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform. CloudStack is used by a number of service providers to offer public cloud services, and by many companies to provide an on-premises (private) cloud offering, or as part of a hybrid cloud solution.
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COBBLER
Cobbler is a Linux installation server that allows for rapid setup of network installation environments. It glues together and automates many associated Linux tasks so you do not have to hop between many various commands and applications when deploying new systems, and, in some cases, changing existing ones. Cobbler can help with provisioning, managing DNS and DHCP, package updates, power management, configuration management orchestration, and much more.
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containerd
An industry-standard container runtime with an emphasis on simplicity, robustness and portability
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CoreOS
CoreOS is an extremely lightweight base OS for Docker. It installs just a kernel, systemd and docker, and then you use Docker to pull in any service that you want. Can be used as a base OS when running your own PaaS with Docker, or other kind of deployments.
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CRI-O
CRI-O is an implementation of the Kubernetes CRI (Container Runtime Interface) to enable using OCI (Open Container Initiative) compatible runtimes. It is a lightweight alternative to using Docker as the runtime for kubernetes. It allows Kubernetes to use any OCI-compliant runtime as the container runtime for running pods. Today it supports runc and Kata Containers as the container runtimes but any OCI-conformant runtime can be plugged in principle. CRI-O supports OCI container images and can pull from any container registry. It is a lightweight alternative to using Docker, Moby or rkt as the runtime for Kubernetes.
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Crossplane
Crossplane, a Cloud Native Computing Foundation sandbox project, is an open source Kubernetes add-on that extends any cluster with the ability to provision and manage cloud infrastructure, services, and applications using kubectl, GitOps, or any tool that works with the Kubernetes API.
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Deliver
A pure bash-based deployment tool with virtually no dependencies except the shell.
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Deployinator
A simple, rack-based deployment framework
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Docker
Docker uses LXC to create and manage native, sandboxed virtual containers. LXC containers acts like a separate OSes, can install their own packages without affecting anything else, and overall have almost the same flexibility of VMs but without any of the virtualization overhead! Docker adds a ton of features, like an elegant configuration file that automates many things (like port forwarding, disk/directory mounting, networking, etc), a way to create and share readymade images that can be distributed as appliances, etc.
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Dokku Alt
Dokku on Steroids. The smallest PaaS implementation you've ever seen. It's fork of original dokku. The idea behind this fork is to provide complete solution with plugins covering most of use-cases which are stable and well tested.
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Dokku
It uses docker, git-receive and a few other lightweight and clever libraries to build a quick PaaS, all around just 100 lines of code! An excellent small tool to get started with PaaS systems. The same developer is creating a larger scale, production quality system called Flynn.
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Eucalyptus
An open source software for building Amazon EC2-compatible private and hybrid cloud platforms
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Fabric8
fabric8 is an end to end development platform spanning ideation to production for the creation of cloud native applications and microservices
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FAI
Fully Automatic Installation (FAI) is a tool for mass unattended deployment of Linux. You can take one or more virgin PCs, turn on the power, and after a few minutes, the systems are installed and completely configured.
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Flynn
From the creator of Dokku, Flynn is a full fledged, open source PaaS platform built on top of Docker. You just push code with a Procfile, and that’s it, Flynn immediately picks it up, provisions a Docker container and deploys the latest code! Its tagged as “the product that ops gives to developers”
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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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Jenkins X
Jenkins X provides pipeline automation, built-in GitOps and preview environments to help teams collaborate and accelerate their software delivery at any scale.
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ĵeto
Streamline your web projects from development from production. Jeto is a web interface for several ReST APIs (nginx-api, vagrant-worker and htpasswd-api). With Ĵeto you add and manage (start/stop/provision) vagrant projects on the fly via a nice and easy to use web interface.
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Juju
Juju is a free and libre orchestration service with a great web GUI, which provides easy scaling, automatic provisioning on a variety of providers including metal and Linux containers, and a community ecosystem of best-practice service definitions. Service files define 'interfaces' to allow easy specification and connection of backends or other dependencies.
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Kubernetes
Kubernetes is a system for managing containerized applications across multiple hosts, providing basic mechanisms for deployment, maintenance, and scaling of applications
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LXD
LXD is a next generation system container manager. It offers a user experience similar to virtual machines but using Linux containers instead. It's image based with pre-made images available for a wide number of Linux distributions and is built around a very powerful, yet pretty simple, REST API.
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minikube
minikube implements a local Kubernetes cluster on macOS, Linux, and Windows.
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Monit
An open source utility for managing and monitoring processes, programs, files, directories and filesystems
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Nebula
Nebula is a Docker orchestration tool designed to manage massive scale distributed clusters
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Netboot.xyz
Netboot.xyz is a preconfigured iPXE bootloader that completely eliminates the need for large ISO files for a vast range of operating systems.
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Ngrok
Ngrok provides secure, encrypted tunnels to local services with out the requirement for port forwarding.
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NixOps
NixOps is a tool for deploying sets of NixOS Linux machines, either to real hardware or to virtual machines. It extends NixOS’s declarative approach to system configuration management to networks and adds provisioning.
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Nomad
Nomad is a lightweight workload orchestrator. It offers client instance scaling as well as workload scaling.
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ntopng
'ntopng' provides an easy to understand, intuitive interface with a world of options and features to monitor your network.
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OpenNebula
An open source, scalable cloud operating system used for building private and hybrid clouds
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OpenStack
An open source, massively scalable cloud operating system used for building private and public clouds
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Opskeleton
Bootstrap a DevOps infrastructure with some opinionated defaults (vagrant, puppet, librarian-puppet, git, etc), standard development guidelines, etc. Makes it very quick to get a DevOps team up and running
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Orc
A model driven orchestration tool for deployment of application clusters
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OSV
An operating system for lightweight virtual machines, designed from ground-up to run a single application, similar to CoreOS
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Packer
Packer is a tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms (like VirtualBox, VMWare, EC2, DigitalOcean, etc) from a single configuration file.
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Podman
Podman is a daemonless container engine for developing, managing, and running OCI Containers on your Linux System. Containers can either be run as root or in rootless mode. Simply put: `alias docker=podman`.
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Poni
A system management and provisioning tool, with centralized configuration management
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Rancher
Rancher is open source software that provides a complete infrastructure platform for running Docker in production.
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Razor
Razor is next generation provisioning software that handles bare metal hardware and virtual server provisioning
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rtk
rkt is an application container engine developed for modern production cloud-native environments. It features a pod-native approach, a pluggable execution environment, and a well-defined surface area that makes it ideal for integration with other systems.
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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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Shippable
CI/CD and DevOps automation platform with Docker support that simplifies provisioning, building, testing, and deploying any application anywhere.
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ShutIt
ShutIt is an automation platform. It makes it easy to create simple modular automation scripts that handle differing output, install software, log in and out of servers, capture output etc.. ShutItFiles are an extension to make it even easier for people to develop automation scripts.
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Soloist
Soloist lets you quickly and easily converge Chef recipes using chef-solo.
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StackStorm
A platform for event-driven automation. StackStorm allows you to integrate and automate across services and tools. It ties together your existing infrastructure and application environment so you can more easily automate that environment -- with a particular focus on taking actions in response to events.
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Sunzi
A shell-based pure provisioning tool which doesn’t try to do anything else. Has no dependencies other than the shell
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Supervisord Monitor
Supervisord Monitor is multi server monitoring tool for supervisor - watch, start and stop all your supervisord instances and servvices from one place.
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Supervisor
Supervisor can manage application processes. It can start and stop a group of processes, restart processes if any of them terminate (keep-alive), start multiple instances of the same process (process pooling), automatically manage PID files, and much more! Very useful if you need to manage multiple processes for your application.
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tsuru
tsuru is an extensible and open source Platform as a Service (PaaS) that makes application deployments faster and easier. Its built upon Docker and allows you easily manage and scale your applications.
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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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Weave
Weave creates a virtual network that connects Docker containers deployed across multiple hosts. Services provided by application containers on the weave network can be made accessible to the outside world, regardless of where those containers are running. Similarly, existing internal systems can be exposed to application containers irrespective of their location.
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werf
werf is CI/CD tool for building Docker images and delivering them to Kubernetes using a GitOps approach. It integrates with any existing CI systems including GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, etc.
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