Boxstarter

Repeatable, reboot resilient windows environment installations made easy using Chocolatey packages. When its time to repave either bare metal or virtualized instances, locally or on a remote machine, Boxstarter can automate both trivial and highly complex installations. Compatible with all Windows versions from Windows 7/2008 R2 forward.

     

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Chocolatey

Chocolatey is like apt-get for Windows. It can install packages and dependencies over the command line.

     

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FAI

Fully Automatic Installation (FAI) is a tool for mass unattended deployment of Linux. You can take one or more virgin PCs, turn on the power, and after a few minutes, the systems are installed and completely configured.

     

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Monit

An open source utility for managing and monitoring processes, programs, files, directories and filesystems

     

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Rex

A agent-less server orchestration tool built on Perl

     

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Sunzi

A shell-based pure provisioning tool which doesn’t try to do anything else. Has no dependencies other than the shell

     

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