Awesome Sysadmin ================ A curated list of amazingly awesome sysadmin open source resources inspired by [Awesome PHP](https://gist.github.com/Xanza/7663627) ### Categories * [Backups](#backups) * [Cloning](#cloning) * [Continuous integration](#continuous-integration) * [DevOps Tools](#devops-tools) * [Hosting](#hosting) * [IMAP/POP3](#imappop3) * [LDAP](#ldap) * [Monitoring](#monitoring) * [Newsletter](#newsletter) * [NoSQL](#nosql) * [RDBMS](#rdbms) * [SMTP](#smtp) * [SSH](#ssh) * [Statistics](#statistics) * [Ticketing systems](#ticketing-systems) * [Project Management](#project-management) * [Version control](#version-control) * [Virtualization](#virtualization) * [VPN](#vpn) * [Web](#web) * [Webmails](#webmails) * [Wikis](#wikis) * [Resources](#resources) * [Websites](#websites) ### Backups *Backup software.* * [Amanda](http://www.amanda.org/) - Client–server model backup tool. * [Bacula](http://www.bacula.org) - Another Client-server model backup tool. * [UrBackup](http://www.urbackup.org/) - Another client/server backup system. ### Cloning. *Cloning software* * [Clonezilla](http://clonezilla.org/) - Partition and disk imaging/cloning program. * [Fog](http://www.fogproject.org/) - Another computer cloning solution. ### Continuous integration *Continuous integration tools * [Go](http://www.thoughtworks.com/products/go-continuous-delivery) - Open source agile build and release management software. * [Jenkins](http://jenkins-ci.org/) - An extendable open source continuous integration server. ### DevOPs Tools *Configuration management tools.* * [Ansible](http://www.ansibleworks.com/) - It's written in Python and manages the nodes over SSH. * [CFEngine](http://cfengine.com/) - Lightweight agent system. Configuration state is specified via a declarative language. * [Chef](http://www.opscode.com/chef/) - It's written in Ruby and Erlang and uses a pure-Ruby DSL. * [Puppet](http://puppetlabs.com/) - It's written in Ruby and uses Puppet's declarative language or a Ruby DSL. * [Salt](http://www.saltstack.com/) - It's written in Python. *Network configuration management tools.* * [RANCID](http://www.shrubbery.net/rancid/) - Monitors network device's configurarion and maintain history of changes. * [rConfig](http://www.rconfig.com/) - Another network device configuration management tool. ### Hosting *Web hosting control panels* * [ISPConfig](http://www.ispconfig.org) - Hosting control panel for Linux. * [Virtualmin](http://www.virtualmin.com/) - Control panel for Linux based on webmin. ### IMAP/POP3 *IMAP/POP3 mail servers.* * [Courier IMAP/POP3](http://www.courier-mta.org/imap/) - Fast, scalable, enterprise IMAP and POP3 server. * [Cyrus IMAP/POP3](http://cyrusimap.org/) - Intended to be run on sealed servers, where normal users are not permitted to log in. * [Dovecot](http://www.dovecot.org/) - IMAP and POP3 server written primarily with security in mind. * [Qpopper](http://www.eudora.com/products/unsupported/qpopper/) - One of the oldest and most popular server implementations of POP3. ### LDAP *LDAP servers.* * [389 Directory Server](http://port389.org) - Developed by Red Hat. * [Apache Directory Server](http://directory.apache.org/) - Apache Software Foundation project written in Java. * [OpenDS](https://opends.java.net/) - Another directory server written in Java. * [OpenLDAP](http://openldap.org/) - Developed by the OpenLDAP Project. ### Monitoring *Monitoring software.* * [Cacti](http://www.cacti.net) - Web-based network monitoring and graphing tool. * [Icinga](https://www.icinga.org/) - Fork of Nagios. * [Monit](http://mmonit.com/monit/#home) - Small Open Source utility for managing and monitoring Unix systems. * [Munin](http://munin-monitoring.org/) - Networked resource monitoring tool. * [Nagios](http://www.nagios.org/) - Computer system, network and infrastructure monitoring software application. * [Zabbix](http://www.zabbix.com/) - Eenterprise-class software for monitoring of networks and applications * [Zenoss](http://community.zenoss.org) - Application, server, and network management platform based on Zope. * [Xymon](http://www.xymon.com/) - Network monitoring inspired by Big Brother. ### Newsletter *Newsletter software.* * [phpList](http://www.phplist.com/) - Newsletter manager. ### NoSQL *NoSQL servers.* * [Cassandra](http://cassandra.apache.org/) - Distributed DBMS designed to handle large amounts of data across many servers. * [CouchDB](http://couchdb.apache.org/) - Ease of use, with multi-master replication document-oriented database system. * [MongoDB](http://www.mongodb.org/) - Another document-oriented database system. * [Redis](http://redis.io/) - Networked, in-memory, key-value data store with optional durability. * [Riak](http://basho.com/riak/) - Another fault-tolerant key-value NoSQL database. Comparison of NoSQL servers: http://kkovacs.eu/cassandra-vs-mongodb-vs-couchdb-vs-redis ### RDBMS *Relational DBMS.* * [MariaDB](https://mariadb.org/) - Community-developed fork of the MySQL. * [MySQL](http://dev.mysql.com/) - Most popular RDBMS server. * [Percona Server](http://www.percona.com/software) - Enhanced, drop-in MySQL replacement. * [PostgreSQL](http://www.postgresql.org/) - Object-relational database management system (ORDBMS). * [SQLite](http://sqlite.org/) - Library that implements a self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional SQL DBS. ### SMTP *SMTP servers.* * [Exim](http://www.exim.org/) - Message transfer agent (MTA) developed at the University of Cambridge. * [Qmail](http://cr.yp.to/qmail.html) - Secure Sendmail replacement. * [Postfix](http://www.postfix.org/) - Fast, easy to administer, and secure Sendmail replacement. * [Sendmail](http://www.sendmail.com/sm/open_source/) - Message transfer agent (MTA). ### SSH *SSH tools.* * [Cluster SSH](http://sourceforge.net/projects/clusterssh/) - Controls a number of xterm windows via a single graphical console. * [parallel-ssh](http://code.google.com/p/parallel-ssh/) - Provides parallel versions of OpenSSH and related tools. * [SSH Power Tool](http://code.google.com/p/sshpt/) - Execute commands and upload files to many servers simultaneously without using pre-shared keys. ### Statistics *Analytics software.* * [Piwik](http://piwik.org/) - Free and open source web analytics application. ### Ticketing systems *Web-based ticketing system.* * [Bugzilla](http://www.bugzilla.org/) - General-purpose bugtracker and testing tool originally developed and used by the Mozilla project. * [MantisBT](http://www.mantisbt.org/) - Another web-based bug tracking system. * [osTicket](http://osticket.com/) - Open source support ticket system. * [Request Tracker](http://www.bestpractical.com/rt/) - Ticket-tracking system written in Perl. ### Project Management *Web-based project management and bug tracking systems.* * [Redmine](http://www.redmine.org/) - Written in ruby on rails. * [The Bug Genie](http://www.thebuggenie.com/) - Written in PHP. * [Trac](http://trac.edgewall.org/) - Written in python. ### Version control *Software versioning and revision control.* * [Git](http://git-scm.com/) - Distributed revision control and source code management (SCM) with an emphasis on speed. * [Mercurial](http://mercurial.selenic.com/) - Another distributed revision control. * [Subversion](http://subversion.apache.org/) - Client-server revision control system. ### Virtualization *Virtualization software.* * [KVM](http://www.linux-kvm.org) - Linux kernel virtualization infrastructure. * [OpenVZ](http://openvz.org) - Container-based virtualization for Linux * [VirtualBox](https://www.virtualbox.org/) - Virtualization product from Oracle Corporation. * [Xen](http://www.xenproject.org/) - Virtual machine monitor for 32/64 bit Intel / AMD (IA 64) and PowerPC 970 architectures. ### VPN *VPN software.* * [OpenVPN](https://community.openvpn.net) - Uses a custom security protocol that utilizes SSL/TLS for key exchange. * [strongSwan](http://www.strongswan.org/) - Complete IPsec implementation for Linux. ### Webmails *Webmail applications.* * [RainLoop](http://rainloop.net/) - Simple, modern & fast web-based IMAP client. * [Roundcube](http://roundcube.net/) - Browser-based IMAP client with an application-like user interface. ### Web *Web servers.* * [Apache](http://httpd.apache.org/) - Most popular web server. * [Cherokee](http://cherokee-project.com/) - Lightweight, high-performance web server/reverse proxy. * [Lighttpd](http://www.lighttpd.net/) - Web server more optimized for speed-critical environments. * [Nginx](http://nginx.org/) - Reverse proxy, load balancer, HTTP cache, and web server. ### Wikis *Wiki software.* * [DokuWiki](https://www.dokuwiki.org/dokuwiki) - Simple to use and highly versatile wiki that doesn't require a database. * [Mediawiki](http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki) - Used to power Wikipedia. ## Resources Various resources, such as books, websites and articles, for improving your skills and knowledge. ### Websites *Useful sysadmin related websites.* * [Ops School](http://www.opsschool.org) - Comprehensive program that will help you learn to be an operations engineer. * [Dotdeb](http://www.dotdeb.org/) - Repository with LAMP updated packages.