Projects

LVM

The Logical Volume Manager (LVM) is a subsystem for online disk storage management which has become a de facto standard for storage management under Linux.

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.

cobbler

Cobbler is a Linux installation server that allows for rapid setup of network installation environments. With a simple series of commands, network installs can be configured for PXE, reinstallations, media-based net-installs, and virtualized installs (supporting Xen, qemu, KVM, and VMware ... [More] Server). Cobbler uses a helper program called 'koan' (which interacts with Cobbler) for reinstallation and virtualization support. Cobbler can also optionally help with managing DHCP, DNS, power, config management, and yum package mirroring infrastructure -- in this regard, it is a more generalized "batteries included" deployment server, rather than just dealing specifically with installations. It has a command line interface, a web interface, and also several API access options. [Less]

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]

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.

OpenIDM

OpenIDM is an open standards based identity management solution. In addition to being open source, OpenIDM offers high flexibility in business process handling and compliance. A flexible user interface combined with a robust workflow engine make OpenIDM ready for any identity management project.

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]

Pax Runner

Painless OSGi framework startup and provisioning.

abiCloud

abiCloud is an open source cloud computing platform manager. It allows to quickly create a private cloud inside an organization's firewall, and manage it with a rich user interface. Next version will allow to also deploy images in external clouds, creating an hybrid environment.