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The Complete DevOps Glossary - Covering DevOps from A to Z.

" Alphabetically arranged reference work that gives brief definitions of words related to a specific topic. Also called controlled vocabulary." - [Source](http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/glossary.html#ixzz3x2CyAJi6)

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## Choose your alphabet:

[ A ](#a) | [ B ](#b) | [ C ](#c) | [ D ](#d) | [ E ](#e) | [ F ](#f) | [ G ](#g) | [ H ](#h) | [ I ](#i) | [ J ](#j) | [ K ](#k) | [ L ](#l) | [ M ](#m) | [ N ](#n) | [ O ](#o) | [ P ](#p) | [ Q ](#q) | [ R ](#r) | [ S ](#s) | [ T ](#t) | [ U ](#u) | [ V ](#v) | [ W ](#w) | [ X ](#x) | [ Y ](#y) | [ Z ](#z) |

# A
 - [AWS](https://aws.amazon.com) - A cloud computing platform offering ready to use web services which are loosely coupled.
 - [Ansible](http://www.ansible.com/) - An agent-less orchestration engine that can automate application and systems.
 - [Aptly](https://github.com/smira/aptly) - A Debian repository management tool
 - [Artifactory](https://github.com/Netflix/asgard/wiki) - JFrog’s open source binary repository management product with support for Apache Maven artifacts.
 - [Asgard](https://github.com/Netflix/asgard/wiki) - A netflix web interface tool for AWS Cloud Management and application deployment.
 - [Atom](https://atom.io/) - Atom is a text editor that's modern, approachable, yet hackable to the core—a tool you can customize to do anything but also use productively without ever touching a config file.
 - [Awsbox](http://awsbox.org/) - A featherweight DYI PaaS on top of awscloud EC2 for deploying node apps.

# B
 - [Beats](https://www.elastic.co/products/beats) - An open source collectors for log files, infrastructure metrics, and other important types of data agitation.
 - [Berkshelf](http://berkshelf.com) - Cookbook source manager for chef, similar to a bundler for ruby.
 - [Buildbot](http://buildbot.net) - An open-source framework for automating software build, test and release process.
 - [Bento](https://www.bento.io) - A project that encapsulates Packer templates for building Vagrant base boxes.
 - [BuildMaster](http://inedo.com/buildmaster) - An automated deployment tool. It combines features to manage and automate processes primarily related to continuous integration, database change scripts, and production deployments.
 - [Brooklyn](https://brooklyn.apache.org) - Focused on deployment & post deployment life-cycle management, aware of network typologies integrates with clouds.
 - [Barkeep](http://getbarkeep.org) - Code review tool for git projects, focused on code reviewing, can support both pre & post commit workflows.

# C
 - [Consul](https://www.consul.io) - Makes it simple for services to register themselves and to discover other services via a DNS or HTTP interface.
 - [Chef](http://chef.io) - Configuration management tool which uses a pure-Ruby, DSL for writing system configuration recipes.
 - [CoreOS](https://coreos.com) - Lightweight OS that support containers out of the box. Can be used as base OS to run your own PaaS
 - [CfEngine](https://cfengine.com/) - First of its kind. Configuration Management tool, automates large scale, complex infrastructure.
 - [Collectd](https://collectd.org/) - Demon to collect system performance statistics periodically & provides tons of plugins to analyze values.
 - [Chocolatey](https://chocolatey.org/) - It is apt-get for windows. Can install packages & dependencies over CLI.
 - [CruiseControl](cruisecontrol.sourceforge.net/) - A CI server written in #Ruby with a focus on simplicity & being easy to hack.
 - [Capistrano](capistranorb.com/) - A remote server automation and deployment tool written in Ruby.
 - [Credmgr](https://github.com/treyka/credmgr) - Securely manage privileged account credentials via Shamir secret sharing. Its like one passwd for DevOps.
 - [ConDep](www.condep.io/) - An opensource infrastructure configuration & deployment DSL specifically targeted (not limited) to Windows platform.
 - [CMB(Cloud Message Bus)](https://github.com/Comcast/cmb) - A highly available, horizontally scalable queuing & notification service compatible to AWS SQS, SNS.

# D
 - [Docker](https://www.docker.com/) - Package an application with all of its dependencies into a standardized unit for software development. Build, Ship, Run.
 - [Deis](http://deis.io/) - Open Source Application Platform For Public and Private Clouds. Its built on Docker & CoreOs.
 - [Drone](https://drone.io) - A Continuous Integration platform built on Docker, written in Go.
 - [Dokku](https://github.com/dokku/dokku) - Docker powered mini-Heroku, a smallest PaaS implementation you've ever seen around 100 lines of Bash.
 - [Deploykit](https://github.com/FuturePublishing/future-deploykit) - Collection of Ruby daemons flying in close formation. AKA our startling message-based deploy environment.
 - [Djangy](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/djangy) - An open source cloud hosting service for Python/Django web apps. Its like Heroku for Python/Django.
 - [Diamond](http://diamond.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) - Diamond is a python daemon that collects system metrics and publishes them to Graphite (and others).

# E
 - [Etcd](https://github.com/coreos/etcd) - A highly-available key value store for shared configuration and service discovery.
 - [Eucalyptus](http://www8.hp.com/us/en/cloud/helion-eucalyptus-overview.html) - An open source software for building AWS - compatible private and hybrid clouds.

# F
 - [Fig](https://github.com/mfoemmel/fig) - A package management tool, similar to APT, language agnostic, faster and works well with both executable and libraries.
 - [Foreman](theforeman.org/) - A complete lifecycle management tool for physical and virtual servers.
 - [Fpm](https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm) - Effing package management! Build packages for multiple platforms (deb, rpm, etc) with great ease and sanity.
 - [Flynn](https://flynn.io/) - An open source PaaS platform built on Docker awesomely manages deploying, scaling your applications.
 - [Fabric](www.fabfile.org/) - A command-line tool for streamlining use of SSH for application deployment or systems administration tasks.
 - [FAI Fully Automatic Installer](fai-project.org/) - Tool for mass unattained deployments of Linux.
 - [Flannel](https://coreos.com/flannel) - etcd backed network fabric for containers

# G
 - [Git](https://git-scm.com/) - An awesome tool to version your source code and collaborate.
 - [Graphite](graphite.wikidot.com/) - A visualization tool for statistics. One can create customizable reports and dashboards.
 - [Ganglia](ganglia.info/) - A salable distributed monitoring system for high-performance computing systems such as clusters & grids.
 - [Gradle](gradle.org/) -  A project automation tool that builds upon the concepts of #Apache Ant and Apache Maven.
 - [Grafana](grafana.org/) - An open source feature rich metrics dashboard and graph editor for Graphite, InfluxDB & OpenTSDB.
 - [GoCD](https://www.go.cd/) - release management tool,build from ground up with pipelines in mind & makes easy to model complex deployment work-flow.

# H
 - [Heroku](https://www.heroku.com/) - Platform as a service (PaaS) that enables developers to build and run applications entirely in the cloud.

# I
 - [Icinga](https://www.icinga.org/) - A monitoring system checking hosts & services you specify & notifying when things go wrong & they recover.

# J
 - [Jenkins](https://jenkins-ci.org/) - It is an open-source, lightweight CI tool written in Java, with high extensibility and a fast release cycle.
 - [Jcloud](https://jclouds.apache.org/) - Apache jclouds, an open source multi-cloud toolkit for the Java platform, apps are portable across clouds.
 - [Juju](https://jujucharms.com/) - An orchestration tool allows software to be quickly deployed, integrated & scaled public/private/hybrid cloud.

# K
 - [Kubernetes](http://kubernetes.io/) - An opensource system for managing containerized applications providing deployment & scaling of apps.
 - [Kickstart](http://kickstart-tools.sourceforge.net) - Uses bash scripts to provision machines over ssh, with no client installation on the target.
 - [Kibana](https://www.elastic.co/products/kibana) - an open source (Apache Licensed), browser based analytic and search dashboard for Elasticsearch.
 - [Kafka](http://kafka.apache.org/) -  distributed, partitioned, replicated commit log service.

# L
 - [Logstash](https://www.elastic.co/products/logstash) - A data pipeline that helps you process logs and other event data from a variety of systems.
 - [Log.io](http://log.io/) - A Real-time log monitoring in your browser. Broadcasting logs to the web clients.
 - [Loom](https://github.com/bfirsh/loom) - Does stuff Puppet doesn't do well or at all bootstrapping machines deploying code & installing reusable modules.
 - [Logster](https://github.com/etsy/logster) - Utility for reading logs & generating metrics to configurable outputs. Graphite, CloudWatch, Nagios & stdout.

# M
 - [Memcached](memcached.org/) - An open-source high performance, distributed memory object caching system.
 - [Mcollective](https://puppetlabs.com/mcollective) - A framework for building server orchestration or parallel job execution systems.
 - [Mina](nadarei.co/mina/) - Deployment tool, lets you build and run scripts to manage your app deployments on servers via SSH.

# N
 - [Nomad](https://www.nomadproject.io/) - A Hashicorp product; is a cluster manager & scheduler designed for microservices and batch workloads.

# O
 - [Openstack](https://www.openstack.org/) - An open source, massively salable cloud operating system used for building private & public cloud.
 - [Opsbot](https://opsbot.com/) - A pluggable, configurable bot for improving communication in operations.
 - [OpsGenie](https://www.opsgenie.com/) - Tools you need to design meaningful, actionable alerts and ensure the right people are notified.
 - [OSV](http://osv.io) - An operating System for lightweight virtual machines, designed for ground up to run single application, similar to CoreOS.
 - [Otto](https://www.ottoproject.io/) - successor to Vagrant is single solution to develop, deploy application with firstclass support to microservices.
 - [Orc](https://github.com/tim-group/orc) - A model driven orchestration tool for the deployment of application clusters written in Ruby.
 - [Opskelaton](https://github.com/opskeleton/opskeleton) - Bootstrap DevOps infra with some opinionated defaults(vagrant chef puppet) standard development guidelines.
 - [Overcast](https://github.com/andrewchilds/overcast) - CLI for ease to spinup configure & manage clusters without learning curve or complexity of existing management tools.
 - [Openshift](https://www.openshift.com/) - Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) that allows developers to quickly develop, host, and scale applications in a cloud environment.

# P
 - [Packer](https://www.packer.io/) - A tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration
 - [Pagerduty](https://www.pagerduty.com/) - A tool which would help us to increase the uptime of our apps, services, and infrastructure.
 - [Poni](http://melor.github.io/poni/) - Systems management tool for defining, deploying and verifying complex multi-node computer systems.
 - [Pulp](www.pulpproject.org/) - A platform for managing repositories of content, such as software packages.
 - [Prometheus](http://prometheus.io/) - open-source service monitoring system and time series database.

# Q

# R
 - [RabbitMQ](https://www.rabbitmq.com/) - RabbitMQ is a queuing tool for DevOps engineers. Supports a large no. of development platforms.
 - [Rundeck](rundeck.org/) - A cross-platform opensource software, helps automate ad-hoc & routine procedures in data-center or cloud environment.
 - [rkt](https://github.com/coreos/rkt) - CLI for running app containers on Linux. rkt is designed to be composable, secure, and fast.
 - [Rudder](www.rudder-project.org/) - An easy to use, web-driven, role-based solution for IT Infrastructure Automation.
 - [Rex](https://www.rexify.org/) - An agent less orchestration tool written in simple perl.
 - [Riemann](http://riemann.io/) - Riemann monitors distributed systems.

# S
 - [Sensu](https://sensuapp.org/) - A simple & scalable monitoring framework which is designed for cloud.
 - [Simian Army](https://github.com/Netflix/SimianArmy) - A tool for testing & promoting infrastructure tolerance & high availability.
 - [Snort](https://www.snort.org/) - An open-source IPS. It provides real-time traffic analysis and packet logging for DevOps engineers.
 - [SumoLogic](https://www.sumologic.com/) - Centralized Log Analysis tool, which scale to any data volume and query performance.
 - [Serf](https://www.serfdom.io/) - A lightweight & decentralized solution for cluster membership, failure detection & orchestration.
 - [SaltStack](http://saltstack.com/) - Configuration Management software, delivers fast, scalable event-driven infrastructure automation & predictive cloud orchestration.
 - [Slaughter](https://github.com/skx/slaughter) - A perl tool for automating configuration maintenance & management of large number of systems.
 - [StackStorm](https://stackstorm.com/) - Event-driven automation used for auto-healing, security responses, troubleshooting, complex deployments.
 - [Sequencer](pv-bull.github.io/sequencer/) - Open-Source Software that can ping, power off and power on your whole cluster.
 - [Sunzi](https://github.com/kenn/sunzi) - Shell-based provisioning tool which does not try to do anything else. Has no dependency other than shell.
 - [Sysdig](www.sysdig.org/) - An open source, system level exploration: capture system state & activity in linux instance save, filter & analyze.
 - [Semaphore](https://semaphoreci.com/) - A hosted continuous integration and deployment service for open source and private projects.
 - [Sublime-Text](https://www.sublimetext.com/) - Sublime Text is a cross-platform source code editor with a Python application programming interface (API). It natively supports many programming languages and markup languages, and its functionality can be extended by users with plugins, typically community-built.
 - [SignalFx](https://signalfx.com/) - Monitoring and Operational Intelligence for the Cloud.

# T
 - [Terraform](https://www.terraform.io/) - A tool used in building, changing, and versioning the infrastructure across platforms.
 - [Test Kitchen](kitchen.ci/ ) - A test harness tool to execute your configured code on one or more platforms in isolation.
 - [Tsuru](https://tsuru.io/) - An extensible and open source Platform as a Service; that uses Docker to make deploys simple & fast.
 - [TeamCity](https://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/) - A feature packed CI tool with out-of-the-box support for java, ruby .Net, & many other languages.
 - [Travis CI](https://travis-ci.org/) - A Continuos Integration tool easy to integrate with Github Projects

# U

# V
 - [Vagrant](https://www.vagrantup.com/) - It is a cross platform tool to create, boot, configure and destroy development environments.
 - [Veewee](https://github.com/jedi4ever/veewee) - A tool for easily & repeatedly building custom Vagrant base boxes, KVMs, & virtual machine images.
 - [Vagrant-lxc](https://github.com/fgrehm/vagrant-lxc) - Vagrant plugin that allows it to control and provision Linux Containers as an alternative to the built in VirtualBox provider for Linux host.
 - [Vaurien](https://github.com/mozilla-services/vaurien) - A Chaos Monkey for TCP conn. Randomly disconnects/stalls TCP connections in app to test tolerance and HA.
 - [VMFest](hackersome.com/p/arohner/vmfest) - a PalletOps project turns VirtualBox into light-weight cloud provider. Useful in developing cloud automation.

# W
 - [Weave](https://github.com/weaveworks/weave) - Virtual network that connects Docker containers deployed across multiple hosts & enables automatic discovery.

# X

# Y

# Z
 - [Zabbix](www.zabbix.com/) - An opensource, enterprise-class network monitoring framework.
 - Zookeeper - A centralized service for maintaining configuration information, naming, providing group services etc.

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