-Awesome Sysadmin
- -A curated list of amazingly awesome open source sysadmin resources inspired by Awesome PHP -Prueba
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-Awesome Sysadmin
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- Backups -
- Cloning -
- Cloud Computing -
- Cloud Storage -
- Collaborative Software -
- Configuration Management Database -
- Configuration Management -
- Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment -
- Distributed Filesystems -
- DNS -
- Hosting Control Panels -
- IMAP/POP3 -
- IT Asset Management -
- LDAP -
- Log Management -
- Monitoring -
- Metric & Metric Collection -
- Network Configuration Management -
- Newsletter -
- NoSQL -
- RDBMS -
- Security -
- SMTP -
- Software Containers -
- SSH -
- Statistics -
- Ticketing systems -
- Troubleshooting -
- Project Management -
- Version control -
- Virtualization -
- VPN -
- XMPP -
- Web -
- Webmails -
- Wikis -
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-Resources
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- Books -
- Editors -
- Repositories -
- Websites -
- - Contributing -
-Backups
- -Backup software.
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- -Amanda - Client-server model backup tool. -
- -Bacula - Another Client-server model backup tool. -
- -Backupninja - Lightweight, extensible meta-backup system. -
- -Backuppc - Client-server model backup tool with file pooling scheme. -
- -Burp - Network backup and restore program. -
- -Duplicity - Encrypted bandwidth-efficient backup using the rsync algorithm. -
- -Lsyncd - Watches a local directory trees for changes, and then spawns a process to synchronize the changes. Uses rsync by default. -
- -Rsnapshot - Filesystem Snapshotting Utility. -
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-SafeKeep - Centralized pull-based backup using
rdiff-backup
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- - -TarSnap - Secure backup service with an open-source client. -
- -UrBackup - Another client-server backup system. -
- -DREBS - AWS EBS backup script that supports strategies. -
-Cloning
- -Cloning software.
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- -Clonezilla - Partition and disk imaging/cloning program. -
- -Fog - Another computer cloning solution. -
- -Redo Backup - Easy Backup, Recovery and Restore. -
-Cloud Computing
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- -Archipel - Manage and supervise virtual machines using Libvirt. -
- -CloudStack - Cloud computing software for creating, managing, and deploying infrastructure cloud services. -
- -Eucalyptus - Open source private cloud software with AWS compatibility. -
- -OpenNebula - An user-driven cloud management platform for sysadmins and devops. -
- -OpenStack - Open source software for building private and public clouds. -
- -The Foreman - Foreman is a complete lifecycle management tool for physical and virtual servers. FOSS. -
- -Cobbler - Cobbler is a Linux installation server that allows for rapid setup of network installation environments. -
- -Mesos - Develop and run resource-efficient distributed systems. -
-Cloud Orchestration
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- -Cloudify - Open source TOSCA-based cloud orchestration software platform written in Python and YAML. -
- -Juju - Cloud orechestration tool which manages services as charms, YAML configuration and deployment script bundles. -
- -MCollective - Ruby framework to manage server orchestration, developed by Puppet labs. -
- -Overcast - Deploy VMs across different cloud providers, and run commands and scripts across any or all of them in parallel via SSH. -
- -Rundeck - Simple orchestration tool. -
- -Salt - It's written in Python. -
-Cloud Storage
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- -git-annex assistant - A synchronised folder on each of your OSX and Linux computers, Android devices, removable drives, NAS appliances, and cloud services. -
- -ownCloud - Provides universal access to your files via the web, your computer or your mobile devices. -
- -Seafile - Another Open Source Cloud Storage solution. -
- -SparkleShare - Provides cloud storage and file synchronization services. By default, it uses Git as a storage backend. -
- -Swift - A highly available, distributed, eventually consistent object/blob store. -
- -Syncthing - Open Source system for private, encrypted and authenticated distrobution of data. -
-Collaborative Software
- -Collaborative software or groupware suites.
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- -Citadel/UX - Collaboration suite (messaging and groupware) that is descended from the Citadel family of programs. -
- -EGroupware - Groupware software written in PHP. -
- -Kolab - Another groupware suite. -
- -SOGo - Collaborative software server with a focus on simplicity and scalability. -
- -Zimbra - Collaborative software suite, that includes an email server and web client. -
-Configuration Management Database
- -Configuration management database (CMDB) software.
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- -i-doit - Open Source IT Documentation and CMDB. -
- -iTop - A complete open source, ITIL, web based service management tool. -
- -Ralph - Asset management, DCIM and CMDB system for large Data Centers as well as smaller LAN networks. -
- -Clusto - Helps you keep track of your inventory, where it is, how it's connected, and provides an abstracted interface for interacting with the elements of the infrastructure. -
-Configuration Management
- -Configuration management tools.
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- -Ansible - It's written in Python and manages the nodes over SSH. -
- -CFEngine - Lightweight agent system. Configuration state is specified via a declarative language. -
- -Chef - It's written in Ruby and Erlang and uses a pure-Ruby DSL. -
- -Fabric - Python library and cli tool for streamlining the use of SSH for application deployment or systems administration tasks. -
- -Pallet - Infrastructure definition, configuration and management via a Clojure DSL. -
- -Puppet - It's written in Ruby and uses Puppet's declarative language or a Ruby DSL. -
- -Salt - It's written in Python. -
- -Slaughter - It's written in Perl. -
-Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment
- -Continuous integration/deployment software.
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- -Buildbot - Python-based toolkit for continuous integration. -
- -GitLab CI - Based off of ruby. They also provide GitLab, which manages git repositories. -
- -Go - Open source agile build and release management software. -
- -Jenkins - An extendable open source continuous integration server. -
- -Vlad the Deployer - Deployment automation. -
-Distributed Filesystems
- -Network distributed filesystems.
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- -Ceph - Distributed object store and file system. -
- -DRBD - Disributed Replicated Block Device. -
- -GlusterFS - Scale-out network-attached storage file system. -
- -HDFS - Distributed, scalable, and portable file-system written in Java for the Hadoop framework. -
- -Lustre - A type of parallel distributed file system, generally used for large-scale cluster computing. -
- -MooseFS - Fault tolerant, network distributed file system. -
- -MogileFS - Application level, network distributed file system. -
- -OpenAFS - Distributed network file system with read-only replicas and multi-OS support. -
- -TahoeLAFS - secure, decentralized, fault-tolerant, peer-to-peer distributed data store and distributed file system. -
- -XtreemFS - XtreemFS is a fault-tolerant distributed file system for all storage needs. -
-DNS
- -DNS servers.
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- -Bind - The most widely used name server software. -
- -djbdns - A collection of DNS applications, including tinydns. -
- -Designate - DNS REST API that support several DNS servers as its backend. -
- -dnsmasq - A lightweight service providing DNS, DHCP and TFTP services to small-scale networks. -
- -Knot - High performance authoritative-only DNS server. -
- -NSD - Authoritative only, high performance, simple name server. -
- -PowerDNS - DNS server with a variety of data storage back-ends and load balancing features. -
- -Unbound - Validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver. -
- -Yadifa - Lightweight authoritative Name Server with DNSSEC capabilities powering the .eu top-level domain. -
-Hosting Control Panels
- -Web hosting control panels
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- -Ajenti - Control panel for Linux and BSD. -
- -Feathur - VPS Provisioning and Management Software. -
- -ISPConfig - Hosting control panel for Linux. -
- -VestaCP - Hosting panel for Linux but with Nginx. -
- -Virtualmin - Control panel for Linux based on webmin. -
- -ZPanel - Control panel for Linux, BSD, and Windows. -
-IMAP/POP3
- -IMAP/POP3 mail servers.
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- -Courier IMAP/POP3 - Fast, scalable, enterprise IMAP and POP3 server. -
- -Cyrus IMAP/POP3 - Intended to be run on sealed servers, where normal users are not permitted to log in. -
- -Dovecot - IMAP and POP3 server written primarily with security in mind. -
- -Qpopper - One of the oldest and most popular server implementations of POP3. -
-IT Asset Management
- -IT Assets Management software.
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- -GLPI - Information Resource-Manager with an additional Administration Interface. -
- -OCS Inventory NG - Enables users to inventory their IT assets. -
- -RackTables - Datacenter and server room asset management like document hardware assets, network addresses, space in racks, networks configuration. -
- -Ralph - Asset management, DCIM and CMDB system for large Data Centers as well as smaller LAN networks. -
- -Snipe IT - Asset & license management software. -
-LDAP
- -LDAP servers.
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- -389 Directory Server - Developed by Red Hat. -
- -Apache Directory Server - Apache Software Foundation project written in Java. -
- -Fusion Directory - Improve the Management of the services and the company directory based on OpenLDAP. -
- -OpenDJ - Fork of OpenDS. -
- -OpenDS - Another directory server written in Java. -
- -OpenLDAP - Developed by the OpenLDAP Project. -
-Log Management
- -Log management tools: collect, parse, visualize ...
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- -Elasticsearch - A Lucene Based Document store mainly used for log indexing, storage and analysis. -
- -Fluentd - Log Collector and Shipper. -
- -Flume - Distributed log collection and aggregation system. -
- -Graylog2 - Pluggable Log and Event Analysis Server with Alerting options. -
- -Heka - Stream processing system which may be used for log aggregation. -
- -Kibana - Visualize logs and time-stamped data. -
- -Logstash - Tool for managing events and logs. -
-Monitoring
- -Monitoring software.
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- -Cacti - Web-based network monitoring and graphing tool. -
- -Cabot - Monitoring and alerts, similar to PagerDuty. -
- -check_mk - Collection of extensions for Nagios. -
- -Icinga - Fork of Nagios. -
- -LibreNMS - fork of Observium. -
- -Monit - Small Open Source utility for managing and monitoring Unix systems. -
- -Munin - Networked resource monitoring tool. -
- -Naemon - Network monitoring tool based on the Nagios 4 core with performance enhancements and new features. -
- -Nagios - Computer system, network and infrastructure monitoring software application. -
- -Observium - SNMP monitoring for servers and networking devices. Runs on linux. -
- -OMD - The Open Monitoring Distribution. -
- -Opsview - Based on Nagios 4, Opsview Core is ideal for small IT and test environments. -
- -Riemann - Flexible and fast events processor allowing complex events/metrics analysis. -
- -Sensu - Open source monitoring framework. -
- -Sentry - Application monitoring, event logging and aggregation. -
- -Shinken - Another monitoring framework. -
- -Thruk - Multibackend monitoring webinterface with support for Naemon, Nagios, Icinga and Shinken. -
- -Xymon - Network monitoring inspired by Big Brother. -
- -Zabbix - Enterprise-class software for monitoring of networks and applications. -
- -Zenoss - Application, server, and network management platform based on Zope. -
-Metric & Metric Collection
- -Metric gathering and display software.
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- -Collectd - System statistic collection daemon. -
- -Collectl - High precision system performance metrics collecting tool. -
- -Dashing - Ruby gem that allows for rapid statistical dashboard development. An all HTML5 approach allows for big screen displays in data centers or conference rooms. -
- -Diamond - Python based statistic collection daemon. -
- -Grafana - A Graphite & InfluxDB Dashboard and Graph Editor. -
- -Ganglia - High performance, scalable RRD based monitoring for grids and/or clusters of servers. Compatible with Graphite using a single collection process. -
- -Graphite - Open source scaleable graphing server. -
- -InfluxDB - Open source distributed time series database with no external dependencies. -
- -OpenTSDB - Store and server massive amounts of time series data without losing granularity. -
- -RRDtool - Open source industry standard, high performance data logging and graphing system for time series data. -
- -Statsd - Application statistic listener. -
-Network Configuration Management
- -Network configuration management tools.
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- -GestióIP - An automated web based IPv4/IPv6 IP Address Management tool. -
- -RANCID - Monitors network device's configurarion and maintain history of changes. -
- -rConfig - Another network device configuration management tool. -
-Newsletters
- -Newsletter software.
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- -DadaMail - Mailing List Manager, written in Perl. -
- -phpList - Newsletter manager written in PHP. -
-NoSQL
- -NoSQL databases.
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- -Apache HBase - Hadoop database, a distributed, big data store. -
- -Cassandra - Distributed DBMS designed to handle large amounts of data across many servers. -
- - Document Store
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- -CouchDB - Ease of use, with multi-master replication document-oriented database system. -
- -ElasticSearch - Java based database, popular with log aggregation, and email archiving projects. -
- -MongoDB - Another document-oriented database system. -
- -RavenDB - Document based database with ACID/Transactional features. -
- -RethinkDB - Open source distributed document store database, focuses on JSON. -
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Comparison of NoSQL servers: http://kkovacs.eu/cassandra-vs-mongodb-vs-couchdb-vs-redis
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- -fpm - Versatile multi format package creator. -
- -omnibus-ruby - Full stack, cross distro packaging software (Ruby). -
- -packman - Full stack, cross distro packaging software (Python). -
-Queuing
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- -BeanstalkD - A simple, fast work queue. -
- -NSQ - A realtime distributed messaging platform. -
- -RabbitMQ - Robust, fully featured, cross distro queuing system. -
- -ZeroMQ - Lightweight queuing system. -
-RDBMS
- -Relational DBMS.
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- -Firebird - True universal open source database. -
- -Galera - Galera Cluster for MySQL is an easy-to-use high-availability solution with high system up-time, no data loss, and scalability for future growth. -
- -MariaDB - Community-developed fork of the MySQL. -
- -MySQL - Most popular RDBMS server. -
- -Percona Server - Enhanced, drop-in MySQL replacement. -
- -PostgreSQL - Object-relational database management system (ORDBMS). -
- -PostgreSQL-XL - Scalable Open Source PostgreSQL-based database cluster. -
- -SQLite - Library that implements a self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional SQL DBS. -
-Security
- -Security tools.
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- -Fail2Ban - Scans log files and takes action on IPs that show malicious behavior. -
-SMTP
- -SMTP servers.
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- -Exim - Message transfer agent (MTA) developed at the University of Cambridge. -
- -Haraka - A high-performance, pluginable SMTP server written in JavaScript. -
- -MailCatcher - Ruby gem that deploys a simply SMTP MTA gateway that accepts all mail and displays in web interface. Useful for debugging or development. -
- -Maildrop - Open Source disposable email SMTP server, also useful for development. -
- -OpenSMTPD - Secure SMTP server implementation from the OpenBSD project. -
- -Postfix - Fast, easy to administer, and secure Sendmail replacement. -
- -Qmail - Secure Sendmail replacement. -
- -Sendmail - Message transfer agent (MTA). -
-Software Containers
- -Operating system–level virtualization.
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- -Docker - Open platform for developers and sysadmins to build, ship, and run distributed applications. -
- -OpenVZ - Container-based virtualization for Linux. -
-SSH
- -SSH tools.
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- -autossh - Automatically respawn ssh session after network interruption. -
- -Cluster SSH - Controls a number of xterm windows via a single graphical console. -
- -DSH - Dancer's shell / distributed shell - Wrapper for executing multiple remote shell commands from one command line. -
- -Mosh - The mobile shell. -
- -parallel-ssh - Provides parallel versions of OpenSSH and related tools. -
- -SSH Power Tool - Execute commands and upload files to many servers simultaneously without using pre-shared keys. -
-Statistics
- -Analytics software.
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- -Analog - The most popular logfile analyser in the world. -
- -Piwik - Free and open source web analytics application. -
- -Webalizer - Fast, free web server log file analysis program. -
-Ticketing systems
- -Web-based ticketing system.
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- -Bugzilla - General-purpose bugtracker and testing tool originally developed and used by the Mozilla project. -
- -Cerb - A group-based e-mail management project built with a commercial open source license. -
- -Flyspray - Web-based bug tracking system written in PHP. -
- -MantisBT - Another web-based bug tracking system. -
- -osTicket - Open source support ticket system. -
- -Otrs - A free and open-source trouble ticket system software package that a company, organization, or other entity can use to assign tickets to incoming queries and track further communications about them. -
- -Request Tracker - Ticket-tracking system written in Perl. -
- -TheBugGenie - Open source ticket system with extremely complete users rights granularity. -
-Troubleshooting
- -Troubleshooting Tools.
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- -mitmproxy - A Python tool used for intercepting, viewing and modifying network traffic. Invaluable in troubleshooting certain problems. -
- -Sysdig - Capture system state and activity from a running Linux instance, then save, filter and analyze. -
-Project Management
- -Web-based project management and bug tracking systems.
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- -ChiliProject - Fork of Redmine. -
- -GitLab - Clone of GitHub written in ruby. -
- -Gogs - Written in Go. -
- -Redmine - Written in ruby on rails. -
- -The Bug Genie - Written in PHP. -
- -Trac - Written in python. -
-Version control
- -Software versioning and revision control.
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- -Fossil - Distributed version control with built-in wiki and bug tracking. -
- -Git - Distributed revision control and source code management (SCM) with an emphasis on speed. -
- -GNU Bazaar - Distributed revision control system sponsored by Canonical. -
- -Mercurial - Another distributed revision control. -
- -Subversion - Client-server revision control system. -
-Virtualization
- -Virtualization software.
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- -Ganeti - Cluster virtual server management software tool built on top of KVM and Xen. -
- -KVM - Linux kernel virtualization infrastructure. -
- -oVirt - Manages virtual machines, storage and virtual networks. -
- -Packer - A tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration. -
- -Vagrant - Tool for building complete development environments. -
- -VirtualBox - Virtualization product from Oracle Corporation. -
- -Xen - Virtual machine monitor for 32/64 bit Intel / AMD (IA 64) and PowerPC 970 architectures. -
-VPN
- -VPN software.
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- -OpenVPN - Uses a custom security protocol that utilizes SSL/TLS for key exchange. -
- -Pritunl - OpenVPN based solution. Easy to set up. -
- -SoftEther - Multi-protocol software VPN with advanced features -
- -sshuttle - Poor man's VPN. -
- -strongSwan - Complete IPsec implementation for Linux. -
- -tinc - Distributed p2p VPN. -
-XMPP
- -XMPP servers.
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- -ejabberd - XMPP instant messaging server written in Erlang/OTP. -
- -Metronome IM - Fork of Prosody IM. -
- -MongooseIM - Fork of ejabberd. -
- -Openfire - Real time collaboration (RTC) server. -
- -Prosody IM - XMPP server written in Lua. -
- -Tigase - XMPP server implementation in Java. -
-Webmails
- -Webmail applications.
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- -RainLoop - Simple, modern & fast web-based IMAP client. -
- -Roundcube - Browser-based IMAP client with an application-like user interface. -
-Web
- -Web servers.
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- -Apache - Most popular web server. -
- -Cherokee - Lightweight, high-performance web server/reverse proxy. -
- -Lighttpd - Web server more optimized for speed-critical environments. -
- -Nginx - Reverse proxy, load balancer, HTTP cache, and web server. -
- -uWSGI - The uWSGI project aims at developing a full stack for building hosting services. -
Web Performance
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- -HAProxy - Software based load Balancing, SSL offloading and performance optimization, compression, and general web routing. -
- -Varnish - HTTP based web application accelerator focusing on optimizing caching and compression. -
-Wikis
- -Wiki software.
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- -DokuWiki - Simple to use and highly versatile wiki that doesn't require a database. -
- -ikiwiki - A wiki compiler. -
- -Mediawiki - Used to power Wikipedia. -
- -MoinMoin - An advanced, easy to use and extensible WikiEngine with a large community of users. -
- -TiddlyWiki - Complete interactive wiki in JavaScript. -
-Resources
- -Various resources, such as books, websites and articles, for improving your skills and knowledge.
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- -Code as Craft - Etsy's Ops blog, lots of technical posts. -
- -DevOpsGuys - Devops consultants who blog about operations. -
- -Rackspace Developers - Slightly biased blog with lots of Devops Topics. -
-Books
- -Sysadmin related books.
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- -The Linux Command Line - A book about the Linux command line by William Shotts. -
- -The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win - How DevOps techniques can fix the problems that happen in IT organizations. -
- -The Practice of System and Network Administration - The first and second editions describes the best practices of system and network administration, independent of specific platforms or technologies. -
- -The Visible Ops Handbook: Implementing ITIL in 4 Practical and Auditable Steps - Is a methodology designed to jumpstart implementation of controls and process improvement. -
- -UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook - Approaches system administration from a practical perspective. -
-Editors
- -Open source code editors.
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- -Atom - A hackable text editor from Github. -
- -Brackets - Open source code editor for web designers and front-end developers. -
- -Eclipse - IDE written in Java with an extensible plug-in system. -
- -Geany - GTK2 text editor. -
- -GNU Emacs - An extensible, customizable text editor-and more. -
- -Haroopad - Markdown editor with live preview. -
- -ICEcoder - Code editor awesomeness, built with common web languages. -
- -jotgit - Git-backed real-time collaborative code editing. -
- -Lime - Aims to provide an open source solution to Sublime Text -
- -Vim - A highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient editing. -
-Repositories
- -Software package repositories.
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- -Dotdeb - Repository with LAMP updated packages for Debian. -
- -Remi - Repository with LAMP updated packages for RHEL/Centos/Fedora. -
-Websites
- -Useful sysadmin related websites.
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- -Ops School - Comprehensive program that will help you learn to be an operations engineer. -
- -Digital Ocean Tutorials - A surprisingly vast resource for getting the basics of certain applications, tools, or even systems administration topics. (Note: Digital Ocean pays authors for this content) -
-Contributing
- -Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.
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