CFengine is a free and open source suite of programs for integrated autonomic management of either individual or networked computers.
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Category: System Software
Juju – single service orchestration tool
Juju (formerly known as Ubuntu Ensemble) is an open source single service orchestration tool that works on public clouds, private clouds.
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Quattor – distribution of open source tools aimed at complete system management
Quattor is a distribution of open source tools aimed at complete system management. Manage non-grid servers, desktops, virtual machines…
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Rudder – Continuous Configuration for Effective Compliance
Rudder is an audit and configuration management utility to help automate system configuration across large IT infrastructures.
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cdist – configuration management tool using the Bourne Shell for scripting
cdist is a usable configuration management system. It adheres to the KISS principle and is used in small up to enterprise grade environments.
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Bcfg2 – portable configuration management system
Bcfg2 is a configuration management system. It helps system administrators deploy complex changes across large numbers of systems.
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ZooKeeper – distributed coordination
ZooKeeper is a centralized service for maintaining configuration information, naming, providing distributed synchronization, and more.
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pyinfra – automates infrastructure
pyinfra automates infrastructure at massive scale. It can be used for ad-hoc command execution, service deployment, configuration management.
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KDE Partition Manager – utility software
KDE Partition Manager is disk partitioning application for the KDE Platform. It can also back up file systems to files and restore backups.
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Parted – partition manager software
GNU Parted is a free and open source program that allows you to create, destroy, resize, move, and copy disk partitions.
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FAI – install, customize and manage Linux systems and software
FAI (Fully Automatic Installation) is a high quality tool for fully automatic installation of new Ubuntu, Suse, Fedora, Debian and more.
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xCAT – Extreme Cluster/Cloud Administration Toolkit
xCAT (Extreme Cluster Administration Toolkit) is distributed computing management software used for hardware control, discovery, and more.
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Foreman – life cycle systems management tool
Foreman is a complete lifecycle management tool for physical and virtual servers.
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Cobbler – rapid setup of network installation environments
Cobbler is a free and open source Linux installation server that allows for fast setup of network installation environments.
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m23 – network deployment
m23 is a software distribution and management system. It can install hundreds of clients over an existing network infrastructure.
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7 Best Free Linux Server Provisioning Tools
Server provisioning is a set of actions to prepare a server, taking it from bare metal to a functioning system.
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Uyuni – configuration and infrastructure management solution
Uyuni is a configuration and infrastructure management tool written in the Java programming language. It’s free and open source software.
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14 Best Free and Open Source Linux Data Recovery Tools
The software featured in this article are high quality standalone Linux tools which help you to recover data in a range of circumstances.
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ext4magic – recover deleted or overwritten files
ext4magic is a Linux admin tool.It can help to recover deleted or overwritten files on ext3 and ext4 filesystems.
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Scalpel – data carving tool
Scalpel is a data carving and indexing application. Scalpel is not under active maintenance. This is free and open source software.
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