Projects

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]

Facter

Facter is a cross-platform library for retrieving simple operating system facts, like operating system, linux distribution, or MAC address.

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]

func

Func allows for running commands on remote systems in a secure way, like SSH, but offers several improvements. * Func allows you to manage an arbitrary group of machines all at once. * Func automatically distributes certificates to all "slave" machines. There's almost ... [More] nothing to configure. * Func comes with a command line for sending remote commands and gathering data. * There are lots of modules already provided for common tasks. * Anyone can write their own modules using the simple Python module API. * Everything that can be done with the command line can be done with the Python client API. The hack potential is unlimited. * You'll never have to use "expect" or other ugly hacks to automate your workflow. [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.

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]

OCS Inventory

Open Computer and Software Inventory Next Generation is an application designed to help a network or system administrator keep track of computer configuration and software installed on the network. It also allows deploying softwares, commands or files on Windows and Linux client computers. ... [More] Management server runs on Apache/MySQL/PHP/PERL server, under Linux or Windows NT based computers. [Less]

opscode-cookbooks

Opscode's Chef cookbooks have been broken up into individual repositories: https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks

FusionInventory

FusionInventory is a free and open source project providing hardware, software inventory and network discovery to the IT asset management and helpdesk software called GLPI. "FusionInventory for GLPI" is a collection of plugins using GLPI's internal framework and philosophy (entities ... [More] , habilitations, user interface, etc.) and communicate with some agents (FusionInventory-Agent), deployed on computers. [Less]

uranos

Support unattended installation of several Linux(kickstart,preseed,autoyast) and Windows(W2k,XP,W2k3,Vista,7,W2k8). Features: inventory, software management, dhcp-ldap, dns-ldap, php-ssh, syslog-ng, switch managment, ldap browser, pxe management.