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* [ownCloud](http://owncloud.org) - Provides universal access to your files via the web, your computer or your mobile devices.
* [Seafile](http://seafile.com) - Another Open Source Cloud Storage solution.
* [TahoeLAFS](https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs) - Secure, decentralized, fault-tolerant, peer-to-peer distributed data store and distributed file system.
* [SparkleShare](http://sparkleshare.org/) System for distributing data to many locations; several reports of buggy encryption and git replication problems.
* [Syncthing](http://syncthing.net/) Open Source system for private, encrypted and authenticated distrobution of data
* [Grafana](http://grafana.org/) - A Graphite & InfluxDB Dashboard and Graph Editor.
* [Dashing](http://dashing.io/) Ruby gem that allows for rapid statistical dashboard development. An all HTML5 approach allows for big screen displays in data centers or conference rooms.
* [Logstash](http://logstash.net/) - Logstash is a tool for managing events and logs.
* [Kibana](http://www.elasticsearch.org/overview/kibana/) - Visualize logs and time-stamped data.
* [Fluentd](http://www.fluentd.org/) Open source, plugabble data (logfile) aggregation engine written in C and Ruby. Pretty much same function as Logstash, compatible with Elasticsearch/Kibana.
* [Graylog2](http://www.graylog2.org/) Open source logfile centralization system with it's own analysis engine (instead of Kibana) Graylog2 has commercial backing, and may end up with paid support options in the future.
## Network Configuration Management
*Network configuration management tools.*
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## 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.
* Document Store
* [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.
* [RavenDB](http://ravendb.net/) - Document based database with ACID/Transactional features
* [ElasticSearch](http://www.elasticsearch.org/) - Java based database, popular with log aggregation, and email archiving projects
* [RethinkDB](http://www.rethinkdb.com/) - Open source distributed document store database, focuses on JSON
* Column-Family
* [Cassandra](http://cassandra.apache.org/) - Distributed DBMS designed to handle large amounts of data across many servers.
* [Apache hBase](http://hbase.apache.org/) - Hadoop database, a distributed, big data store
* Graph
* [neo4j](http://www.neo4j.org/) - Open source graph database
* [Sendmail](http://www.sendmail.com/sm/open_source/) - Message transfer agent (MTA).
* [MailCatcher](http://mailcatcher.me/) - Ruby gem that deploys a simply SMTP MTA gateway that accepts all mail and displays in web interface. Useful for debugging or development.
* [Maildrop](https://github.com/m242/maildrop) - Open Source disposable email SMTP server (mailinator.com), also useful for development.
## Software Containers
*Operating system–level virtualization.*
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* [Nginx](http://nginx.org/) - Reverse proxy, load balancer, HTTP cache, and web server.
* [uWSGI](https://github.com/unbit/uwsgi/) - The uWSGI project aims at developing a full stack for building hosting services.
*Web Performance*
* [HAProxy](http://www.haproxy.org/) - Software based load Balancing, SSL offloading and performance optimization, compression, and general web routing
* [Varnish](https://www.varnish-cache.org/) - HTTP based web application accelerator focusing on optimizing caching and compression. While Open Source, Varnish has a commerical support option.
## Wikis
*Wiki software.*
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* [Eclipse](http://eclipse.org/) - IDE written in Java with an extensible plug-in system.
* [Geany](http://www.geany.org/) - GTK2 text editor.
* [Haroopad](http://pad.haroopress.com/) - Markdown editor with live preview.
* [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.
* [Rackspace Developers] - Slightly biased blog with lots of Devops Topics
* [http://blog.devopsguys.com/](http://blog.devopsguys.com/) Devops consultants who blog about operations
* [Digital Ocean Tutorials](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/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)
* [Code As Craft](http://codeascraft.com/) Etsy's Ops blog, logs of technical posts.
# Contributing
Please see [CONTRIBUTING](https://github.com/kahun/awesome-sysadmin/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md) for details.
Brian Morin
11 years ago