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Table of contents


Software

Automation

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Build automation.

Backups

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Backup software.

See also: Restic's list of Linux backup software

Build and software organization tools

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Build and software organization tools.

ChatOps

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Conversation-driven development and management.

_See also: /r/chatops*

Cloud Computing

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Cloud computing is the on-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage (cloud storage) and computing power, without direct active management by the user.

Please visit Cloud Native Software Landscape

Code Review

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Code review is a software quality assurance activity in which one or several people check a program mainly by viewing and reading parts of its source code.

Please visit awesome-selfhosted/Software Development - Project Management

Configuration Management

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Configuration management (CM) is a systems engineering process for establishing and maintaining consistency of a product's performance, functional, and physical attributes with its requirements, design, and operational information throughout its life.

Configuration Management Database

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Configuration management database (CMDB) software.

Related: IT Asset Management

Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment

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Continuous integration/deployment software.

Control Panels

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Web hosting and server or service control panels.

Databases

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Database servers.

Please visit dbdb.io - Database of Databases

See also: awesome-selfhosted/Database Management

Deployment Automation

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Tools and scripts to support deployments to your servers.

Diagramming

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Tools used to create diagrams of networks, flows, etc.

Distributed Filesystems

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Network distributed filesystems.

See also: awesome-selfhosted/File Transfer - Object Storage & File Servers

DNS - Control Panels & Domain Management

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DNS server control panels, web interfaces and domain management tools.

Related: DNS - Servers

See also: awesome-selfhosted/DNS

DNS - Servers

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DNS servers.

Related: DNS - Control Panels & Domain Management

See also: awesome-selfhosted/DNS

Editors

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Open-source code editors.

Identity Management

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Identity management (IdM), also known as identity and access management (IAM or IdAM), is a framework of policies and technologies to ensure that the right users (that are part of the ecosystem connected to or within an enterprise) have the appropriate access to technology resources.

Please visit Identity Management - LDAP, Identity Management - Tools and web interfaces, Identity Management - Single Sign-On SSO

Identity Management - LDAP

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Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is an open, vendor-neutral, industry standard application protocol for accessing and maintaining distributed directory information services over an Internet Protocol (IP) network.

Identity Management - Single Sign-On (SSO)

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Single sign-on (SSO) is an authentication scheme that allows a user to log in with a single ID to any of several related, yet independent, software systems.

Identity Management - Tools and web interfaces

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Miscellaneous utilities and web interfaces for identity management systems.

IT Asset Management

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IT asset management software.

Log Management

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Log management tools: collect, parse, visualize...

Mail Clients

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An email client, email reader or, more formally, message user agent (MUA) or mail user agent is a computer program used to access and manage a user's email.

Metrics & Metric Collection

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Metric gathering and display software.

Related: Databases, Monitoring

Miscellaneous

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Software that does not fit in another section.

Monitoring

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Monitoring software.

Related: Metrics & Metric Collection

Network Configuration Management

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Network configuration management tools.

PaaS

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Platform-as-a-Service software allows customers to provision, instantiate, run, and manage a computing platform and one or more applications, without the complexity of building and maintaining the infrastructure typically associated with developing and launching the application. Also includes Serverless computing and Function-as-a-service (FaaS) software.

Packaging

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A package manager or package-management system is a collection of software tools that automates the process of installing, upgrading, configuring, and removing computer programs for a computer in a consistent manner.

Project Management

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Web-based project management and bug tracking systems.

Please visit awesome-selfhosted/Project Management

Queuing

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Message queues and message broker software, typically used for inter-process communication (IPC), or for inter-thread communication within the same process.

See also: Cloud Native Landscape - Streaming & Messaging

Remote Desktop Clients

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Remote Desktop client software.

See also: awesome-selfhosted/Remote Access

Router

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Software for management of router hardware.

Service Discovery

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Service discovery is the process of automatically detecting devices and services on a computer network.

Software Containers

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Operating system–level virtualization.

Status Pages

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Uptime is a measure of system reliability, expressed as the percentage of time a machine, typically a computer, has been working and available.

Please visit awesome-selfhosted/Status / Uptime Pages

Troubleshooting

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Troubleshooting tools.

Version control

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Software versioning and revision control.

Virtualization

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Virtualization software.

VPN

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VPN software.

Web

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Web servers and reverse proxies.

Please visit awesome-selfhosted/Web Servers


List of Licenses

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External links

Communities / Forums

Repositories

Software package repositories.

Websites


License

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