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Puppet – Data center automation and configuration management
August 2, 2010 by christian · Leave a Comment
Puppet is an open source data center automation and configuration management framework. Puppet provides system administrators with a simplified platform that allows for consistent, transparent, and flexible systems management. Puppet lets System Administrators spend less time on mundane tasks and instead focus on managing their infrastructure strategically. Puppet’s declarative language describes your system configuration, allowing you to easily reproduce any configuration on any number of additional systems. Additionally, Puppet can help establish and enforce approved system configurations automatically correcting systems that drift from their baseline. Puppet provides an audit trail of all your systems, which can easily be kept in version control for compliance purposes. Whether you have a small, heterogeneous network of user workstations or a cluster of rack-mounted number-crunchers, Puppet can help reduce your overhead and get the everyday management of your network under control so you can concentrate on the real problems.
Website: http://www.puppetlabs.com
Related Project: http://www.puppetlabs.com/puppet/related-projects/dashboard/
Syslog-ng: Central logging system
February 7, 2010 by christian · Leave a Comment
The syslog-ng Open Source Edition is the direct descendant of the syslog-ng project that started ten years ago. This free, open-source version is an extremely well-developed, high performance, stable system being the Linux/Unix world’s most frequently used alternative central logging system. According to the estimations, several millions of servers of several hundreds of thousand of companies are running it, so most probably it can be accounted for as one of the most successful Hungarian products, actually functioning as a standard.
The application can operate in server or agent mode, and – apart from UDP – supports the reliable TCP and the encrypted TLS protocols. That way syslog-ng can be used to create flexible and reliable logging infrastructure even in heterogeneous environments.
Website: http://www.balabit.com/network-security/syslog-ng/opensource-logging-system/
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The goal of this website is to give an end to end open source solution for a typical small company including Telephony, Document management, Customer Relation Application, Networking, Remote access, Desktop solutions and so on.
Although only the tools/applications have been listed on the website for the moment, a complete network diagram and individual how-to articles will follow.
Please note that for most of the installation instructions, we will not re-invent the wheel. A large number of very competent experts have already written how-to articles, we will just refer you to those. We will only document the missing links between the different components or if we feel that some installations could be better documented.
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Please note that the text for each of the blog post is taken from their respective websites. The KinDev team have experimented with those tools at different occasions. Your need and requirements could be different than the ones identified by our team for a specific situation, please take the time to read and understand the tool/application features before starting to install in a production environment.
We hope that you will have as much fun as we have discovering, installing and using those tools/applications and please do not forget to donate to the respective open source volunteers that have changed the IT landscape for ever.
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