Salt is a new approach to infrastructure management built on a dynamic communication bus. Salt is free and open source software.
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Category: System Software
Chef – automated configuration management
Chef is a systems integration framework and configuration management system. It is written in the Ruby programming language.
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Puppet – automated administrative engine
Puppet performs administrative tasks (such as adding users, installing packages, and updating server configurations).
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CFengine – automate large-scale, complex and mission critical IT infrastructure
CFengine is a free and open source suite of programs for integrated autonomic management of either individual or networked computers.
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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 – graphical disk partitioning utility
KDE Partition Manager lets Linux users create, resize, move, copy and restore disk partitions through a graphical KDE interface.
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Parted – command-line disk partitioning utility
Parted manages disk partition tables from the Linux command line, with tools for creating, resizing, removing and inspecting partitions.
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FAI – automate Linux installations and system configuration
FAI automates unattended Linux installations, configuration and maintenance across desktops, servers and large computing clusters.
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xCAT – cluster provisioning and administration toolkit
xCAT automates hardware discovery, operating system deployment and administration of high-performance computing and server clusters.
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Foreman – server provisioning and lifecycle management
Foreman manages server provisioning, configuration, inventory and lifecycle operations across physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure.
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Cobbler – automated Linux deployment and network provisioning
Cobbler simplifies network-based Linux deployment with automated installations, reusable system profiles and infrastructure integration.
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m23 – software distribution and network deployment
m23 provides centralised Linux deployment and software management, with browser-based administration, imaging and client maintenance tools.
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Uyuni – Linux configuration and infrastructure management
Uyuni provides centralised Linux configuration, software updates, patch management and infrastructure automation across large server environments.
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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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