Projects

SCons - a Software Construction tool

SCons is a software construction tool (build tool substitute for Make) implemented in Python. It features a modular build engine that can be embedded in other software. SCons configuration files are Python scripts that call the build engine API. It can scan files to detect dependencies automatically ... [More] and maintain a global view of all dependencies in a build tree, and uses MD5 signatures to detect changed file contents reliably. Timestamps can be used if you prefer. SCons also supports parallel builds and is easily extensible through user-defined builder and scanner objects. [Less]

Puppet

Puppet lets you centrally manage every important aspect of your system using a cross-platform specification language that manages all the separate elements normally aggregated in different files, like users, cron jobs, and hosts, along with obviously discrete elements like packages, services, and ... [More] files. Puppet's simple declarative specification language provides powerful classing abilities for drawing out the similarities between hosts while allowing them to be as specific as necessary, and it handles dependency and prerequisite relationships between objects clearly and explicitly. [Less]

Chef

Chef is a systems integration framework, built to bring the benefits of configuration management to your entire infrastructure.

CFEngine

CFEngine is the long-standing and visionary computer management software used on over a million computers around the world. CFEngine leads the industry with: - Real-time, policy-based repair - Automation and documentation of business and IT-processes - More than 15 years of experience ... [More] , security and stability - One of few true self-healing software solutions in the industry - A scalable solution for freeing up system administration time CFEngine is used by industry leaders, governments and the military worldwide. [Less]

Bcfg2

Bcfg2 helps system administrators produce a consistent, reproducible, and verifiable description of their environment, and offers visualization and reporting tools to aid in day-to-day administrative tasks.

Ansible

Ansible is a radically simple configuration management, deployment, and ad-hoc task execution tool. It supports a wide variety of distributions, requires no software installed on managed machines, and users can get going in minutes. Extension modules can be written in any language.

Quattor

Quattor is a system administration toolkit developed over ten years in the context of the European Grid. It provides powerful, portable and modular tools for the automated installation, configuration and management of clusters, grids and clouds running UNIX-like operating systems such as Linux. At ... [More] its heart, sits a powerful language, Pan, for describing configuration. It can be used to manage non-grid servers, desktops, virtual machines and much more. Developed to manage the clusters and services used in grid computing, Quattor is today being used to manage many separate infrastructures worldwide. From massive single-sites such as CERN to highly-distributed multi-site infrastructures such as Grid-Ireland and a few very large commercial companies operating hundreds of thousands of nodes. [Less]

Firewall Builder

Firewall Builder consists of a GUI and set of policy compilers for various firewall platforms. It helps users maintain a database of objects and allows policy editing using simple drag-and-drop operations. The GUI and policy compilers are completely independent, which provides for a consistent ... [More] abstract model and the same GUI for different firewall platforms. It currently supports iptables, ipfilter, ipfw, OpenBSD pf, Cisco PIX, and FWSM. [Less]

EasyBSD

EasyBSD is a modular automation script designed to assist in the extensive post installation process that is required in FreeBSD. The following are modules that are included with EasyBSD, Checks, Update, Security, Networking, Firewall, Recommended Ports, Tips and Tweaks, Daemon, and Universe.

FAI

FAI is an automated installation tool to install or deploy Debian GNU/Linux and similar distributions on a Linux Cluster or a bunch of different hosts. It's similar but more flexible than other tools like kickstart for Red Hat, autoyast and alice for SuSE or Jumpstart for SUN Solaris.