Let’s get this community popping with some useful information. Reddit’s sysadmin subreddit seemed like a place of complainers, I look forward to having actual productive conversation in this community.

  • @davidhun@lemmy.sdf.org
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    11 year ago

    For systems creation, provisioning and config management Hashicorp’s terraform and packer, and RedHat’s ansible are indispensable.

    govc for managing guests in vCenter.

    jq for parsing json.

    I like tmux better than screen, but use both.

    Not really a tool, per se, but Netbox is a great DCIM/IPAM application for managing your infrastructure.

    Just learned about it and am currently learning, but Apache JMeter looks like a useful tool for running automated load testing against different kinds of services.