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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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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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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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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ConDep
ConDep is a open source infrastructure configuration and deployment DSL (Domain Specific Language) specifically targeted to (but not limited to) the Windows Server platform. If your familiar with tools like Chef and Puppet, ConDep does very much the same, but with native support for Windows.
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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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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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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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minikube
minikube implements a local Kubernetes cluster on macOS, Linux, and Windows.
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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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Nomad
Nomad is a lightweight workload orchestrator. It offers client instance scaling as well as workload scaling.
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Orc
A model driven orchestration tool for deployment of application clusters
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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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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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Soloist
Soloist lets you quickly and easily converge Chef recipes using chef-solo.
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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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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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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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