IT-Ops Cheat Sheet
This sheet cheat covers IT Ops solutions, roughly organized per process. For a similar index have a look at https://sysadmin.it-landscape.info/.
Software Firewalls, LBs
- pfsense OpenBSD firewall
- vyatta Linux firewall
- Zen Load Balancer (virtual appliance)
- HAProxy TCP LB
- Linux Virtual Server (LVS)
- ldirectord
- Ulta Monkey (LVS based LB + Linux-HA)
Install Servers
- Cobbler
- MAAS - Ubuntu “Metal As A Service” install server
- Foreman (integrated with puppet)
- SpaceWalk (Kickstart based for Redhat and Solaris)
- Razor (from Puppetlabs)
Deployment
- CruiseControl: CI
- Travis CI: Easy to use CI SaaS
- Jenkins CI: CI and Deployment Server
- Bamboo: (available hosted with Jira Studio)
- fabric: Language for deployment scripts
- CI Tools Index by Price Segment
Orchestration Tools
- JuJu: mostly for Ubuntu, service orchestration tool (Python, commercially backed)
- Maestro (enterprise, commercial)
- mcollective - Puppet parallelizing and orchestration framework
- SaltStack
Orchestration Standards
- TOSCA (OASIS)
Orchestration Frameworks
Security
- hackertarget.com/: Online Vulnerabity Scan (SaaS)
Performance Debugging
Monitoring
Graphing/Trending
- rrdtool (arkane, do not use directly)
- Cacti (arkane, do not use)
- Munin (easy to setup, good graphs, great defaults, aged)
- Ganglia
- Graphite, Grafana, influxDB (good customization, aweful usability)
- collectd
Active Service Checking
- Nagios, Icinga
- Nagios frameworks with Vendor Lock-in: Groundworks, OpsView, Zabbix
- check_mk (OSS, multi-site Nagios GUI)
SNMP based
- Naemon
Real Time Metrics
Hosting / ISP
- Hoster Index: whdb.com/providers
- Hoster Lookup: whoishosthingthis.com, who-hosts.com
- iplist.net: Simple reverse lookup of neighbour IPs
- Meta Status: downdetector.com, cloudharmony.com
- Cloud Provider Directory
- Cloud Calculator (compares self-hosting with cloud pricing)
API Documentation
- RAML
- Swagger
Software Architecture
F5 Series on Architecture
1) Cloud/Automated Systems need an Architecture
https://devcentral.f5.com/articles/cloud-automated-systems-need-an-architecture-26975
2) The Service Model for Cloud/Automated Systems Architectures
https://devcentral.f5.com/articles/the-service-model-for-cloud-automated-systems-architectures-27129
3) The Deployment Model for Cloud/Automated Systems Architectures
4) The Operational Model for Cloud/Automated Systems Architectures
People
Feature Management
Collaboration
Git Code Review Solutions
- Atlassian Stash
- Gerrit (self-hosted, free)
- https://gerrithub.io/ (commercial)
- Gitlab (self-hosted, free, support available)
- github.com
- gitorious.org
- Phabricator
- Documentation Testing: Inch CI
- Artifactory - Manage Binary Repositories
Skills:
- Ops 8 Level Matrix (Skills per career level in Ops)