Ansible
Open source IT automation for provisioning and configuration
24 tools in our directory are marked as best for System administrators, from 7 sections: Dev Utilities (11), Cloud Platforms (4), DevOps (3), Hosting & Deploy (3) and 3 more sections.

Open source IT automation for provisioning and configuration

Deduplicating backup tool with compression and encryption

Terminal resource monitor for CPU, memory, disks and network

Free tool that gets and renews Let's Encrypt HTTPS certificates





Open source real-time web server log analyzer with live dashboards

Free collection of online tools for developers and IT work


GPU-based terminal emulator with image display and remote control

Terminal log viewer that merges, filters and queries log files

Self-hosted mail server suite with webmail, spam filtering and Docker

Free open source monitoring for servers, networks and services

Web server, reverse proxy, load balancer and cache


Command-line tool to sync and mount files across cloud storage

Encrypted backup program that runs as a single executable

Open source automation for remote execution and configuration

Minimal, fast shell prompt that works with most shells

Terminal multiplexer for splitting and detaching shell sessions


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