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Essential DevOps Toolbox: 50+ Open‑Source Operations Tools You Should Know

This article presents a curated toolbox of over fifty open‑source DevOps utilities, covering bootstrapping, configuration management, automated build and testing, monitoring, micro‑service platforms, performance analysis, logging, security, PaaS, CI/CD, database management, and more, providing a comprehensive reference for operations engineers.

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Essential DevOps Toolbox: 50+ Open‑Source Operations Tools You Should Know

Bootstrapping

Kickstart, Cobbler, rpmbuild/xen, kvm, lxc, Openstack, Cloudstack, Opennebula, Eucalyplus, RHEV

Configuration Management Tools

Capistrano, Chef, Puppet, Func, SaltStack, Ansible, Rundeck, CFEngine, Rudder

Automated Build and Testing

Ant, Maven, Selenium, PyUnit, QUnit, JMeter, Gradle, PHPUnit

Monitoring Tools

Cacti, Nagios (Icinga), Zabbix, Grafana (time‑series front‑end), Mtop, MRTG, Monit, Diamond+Graphite+Grafana

Micro‑service Platforms

OpenShift, Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes, Mesosphere

Performance Monitoring Tools

dstat, atop, nmon, slabtop, sar, sysdig, tcpdump, iftop, iperf, smem, collectl, tcpdive

Free APM Tools

mmtrix, alibench, Pinpoint (Java performance monitoring)

Process Monitoring

mmonit, Supervisor, frigga, StrongLoop Process Manager

Log Systems

Logstash, Scribe

Graphing Tools

RRDtool, Gnuplot

Flow Control Systems

Panabit, Pcap Analyzer (online packet analysis)

Security Checks

chrootkit, rkhunter

PaaS Solutions

Cloudify, CloudFoundry, OpenShift, Deis (Docker, CoreOS, Atomic, Ubuntu Core/Snappy, RancherOS)

Troubleshooting Utilities

Sysdig, SystemTap, Perf

Service Discovery

SmartStack, etcd

Continuous Integration

Go, Jenkins, GitLab, Phabricator, Spinnaker

App Continuous Delivery

fastlane

Disk Benchmarking

fio, iozone, IOMeter (Windows)

Memcache Solutions

Mcrouter (scaling memcached)

Redis Ecosystem

Dynomite, Twemproxy, Codis, SSDB, Aerospike, Redis Cluster

MySQL Monitoring

mytop, orzdba, Percona‑toolkit, Maatkit, innotop, myawr, mysqlpcap, topology visualization tools

MySQL Benchmarking

mysqlsla, sql‑bench, Super Smack, Percona TPCC‑MYSQL Tool, sysbench

MySQL Proxy Solutions

SOHU‑DBProxy, Mycat, Altas, cobar, 58‑Tongcheng Oceanus, kingshard

MySQL Logical Backup Tools

mysqldump, mysqlhotcopy, mydumper, MySQLDumper, mk‑parallel‑dump / mk‑parallel‑restore

MySQL Physical Backup Tools

Xtrabackup, LVM Snapshot

MongoDB Benchmarking

iibench, sysbench

Source: https://github.com/geekwolf/sa-scripts/blob/master/devops.md

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