awesome-foss/awesome-sysadmin

A curated list of amazingly awesome open-source sysadmin resources.

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[](https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome) [](https://github.com/awesome-foss/awesome-sysadmin-data/issues/1) [](https://github.com/awesome-foss/awesome-sysadmin-data/issues/1) A curated list of amazingly awesome Free and Open-Source sysadmin resources. Please read the Contributing if you wish to add software and consider donating to the FLOSS projects you use regularly. Please consider contributing to fix one of the pinned issues if your time allows. HTML version (recommended), Markdown version (legacy). See Contributing. ^ back to top ^ Build automation. ^ back to top ^ Backup software. See also: Restic's list of Linux backup software ^ back to top ^ Build and software organization tools. ^ back to top ^ Conversation-driven development and management. See also: /r/chatops ^ back to top ^ Cloud computing is the on-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage (cloud storage) and computing power, without direct active management by the user. Please visit Cloud Native Software Landscape ^ back to top ^ Code review is a software quality assurance activity in…

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A curated list of amazingly awesome open-source sysadmin resources.

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Owner: awesome-foss
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Stars: 35,568
Forks: 2,127
Open issues + pull requests: 0
License: Other
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Default branch: master
Created: 2014-12-23T08:41:22.000Z
Last push: 2026-10-22T11:46:19.000Z

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