Bento
A modularized collection of Packer definitions for building machine images. A good place to start with Packer.
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Berkshelf
A cookbook source structure manager for Chef, similar to Bundler for Ruby. Each Chef cookbook can be structured as an individual entity and can be pulled into your main Chef workflows.
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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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Fabric8
fabric8 is an end to end development platform spanning ideation to production for the creation of cloud native applications and microservices
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Gerrit
A Web based code review and project management system for Git projects
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Librarian-Puppet
Librarian-Puppet is a source structure and dependency manager for Puppet modules, similar to bundler for Ruby. Each Puppet module can be managed as a separate source repository with individual versioning, and can then be pulled into your Puppetfile.
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Netboot.xyz
Netboot.xyz is a preconfigured iPXE bootloader that completely eliminates the need for large ISO files for a vast range of operating systems.
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Ngrok
Ngrok provides secure, encrypted tunnels to local services with out the requirement for port forwarding.
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Packer
Packer is a tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms (like VirtualBox, VMWare, EC2, DigitalOcean, etc) from a single configuration file.
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r10k
r10k provides a general purpose toolset for deploying Puppet environments and modules. It implements the Puppetfile format and provides a native implementation of Puppet dynamic environments.
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Vagrant Cachier
A Vagrant plugin that helps you reduce the amount of coffee you drink while waiting for boxes to be provisioned by sharing a common package cache among similiar VM instances.
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Vagrant
Vagrant is a cross platform tool to create, boot, configure and destroy development environments. It provides a simple configuration-based approach to take a base image, boot it up, provision it (using any other provisioners), SSH, port forward, and much more. It automates the process of booting up and configuring virtual machines. It supports various providers like VirtualBox, VMWare, AWS, LXC, etc.
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Veewee
veewee is a great tool for building Virtual Machine images (aka base boxes). It automates most of the steps and allows you to easily create readymade images for VirtualBox/Vagrant, VMWare Fusion, KVM and Parallels. No longer need to shy away from building custom VM images!
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