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.
Bootstrapping
Kickstart, Cobbler, rpmbuild/xen, kvm, lxc, Openstack, Cloudstack, Opennebula, Eucalyplus, RHEVConfiguration Management Tools
Capistrano, Chef, Puppet, Func, SaltStack, Ansible, Rundeck, CFEngine, RudderAutomated Build and Testing
Ant, Maven, Selenium, PyUnit, QUnit, JMeter, Gradle, PHPUnitMonitoring Tools
Cacti, Nagios (Icinga), Zabbix, Grafana (time‑series front‑end), Mtop, MRTG, Monit, Diamond+Graphite+GrafanaMicro‑service Platforms
OpenShift, Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes, MesospherePerformance Monitoring Tools
dstat, atop, nmon, slabtop, sar, sysdig, tcpdump, iftop, iperf, smem, collectl, tcpdiveFree APM Tools
mmtrix, alibench, Pinpoint (Java performance monitoring)Process Monitoring
mmonit, Supervisor, frigga, StrongLoop Process ManagerLog Systems
Logstash, ScribeGraphing Tools
RRDtool, GnuplotFlow Control Systems
Panabit, Pcap Analyzer (online packet analysis)Security Checks
chrootkit, rkhunterPaaS Solutions
Cloudify, CloudFoundry, OpenShift, Deis (Docker, CoreOS, Atomic, Ubuntu Core/Snappy, RancherOS)Troubleshooting Utilities
Sysdig, SystemTap, PerfService Discovery
SmartStack, etcdContinuous Integration
Go, Jenkins, GitLab, Phabricator, SpinnakerApp Continuous Delivery
fastlaneDisk Benchmarking
fio, iozone, IOMeter (Windows)Memcache Solutions
Mcrouter (scaling memcached)Redis Ecosystem
Dynomite, Twemproxy, Codis, SSDB, Aerospike, Redis ClusterMySQL Monitoring
mytop, orzdba, Percona‑toolkit, Maatkit, innotop, myawr, mysqlpcap, topology visualization toolsMySQL Benchmarking
mysqlsla, sql‑bench, Super Smack, Percona TPCC‑MYSQL Tool, sysbenchMySQL Proxy Solutions
SOHU‑DBProxy, Mycat, Altas, cobar, 58‑Tongcheng Oceanus, kingshardMySQL Logical Backup Tools
mysqldump, mysqlhotcopy, mydumper, MySQLDumper, mk‑parallel‑dump / mk‑parallel‑restoreMySQL Physical Backup Tools
Xtrabackup, LVM SnapshotMongoDB Benchmarking
iibench, sysbenchSource: https://github.com/geekwolf/sa-scripts/blob/master/devops.md
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