Operations/Tools
The following is a list of external tools that we have used for supporting OpenStack infrastructures. Please note that this list is by no means complete.
Contents
Automation
- Chef: http://www.opscode.com/chef
- Cobbler: http://cobbler.github.com
- Puppet: https://puppetlabs.com
Collaboration
- MediaWiki: http://www.mediawiki.org
- Redmine: http://www.redmine.org
- RT: http://bestpractical.com/rt
File Systems
- Gluster: http://www.gluster.org
- Ceph: http://ceph.com
Logging
- OpenStack Logging Tools: https://github.com/osops/tools-logging
- Rsyslog: http://www.rsyslog.com
- Logstash: http://www.logstash.net
- Sample Logstash configuration: https://github.com/OpenStratus/openstack-logstash
- StackTach: event-based monitoring, usage and billing (arguably could go under Monitoring)
- overview: http://www.sandywalsh.com/2012/10/debugging-openstack-with-stacktach-and.html
- repository git://git.openstack.org/stackforge/stacktach
- stackforge https://git.openstack.org/cgit/stackforge/stacktach
- older repository is on https://github.com/rackerlabs
Network
- OpenVPN: http://openvpn.net
- tcpdump: http://www.tcpdump.org
- WireShark: http://www.wireshark.org
Monitoring and Trending
- collectd: http://collectd.org
- Ganglia: http://ganglia.sourceforge.net/
- Groundwork: http://www.gwos.com
- Nagios: http://www.nagios.org
- Munin: http://munin-monitoring.org
Repositories with monitoring scripts and checks:
- Tools to monitor OpenStack: https://github.com/osops/tools-monitoring
- Rackspace private cloud monitoring scripts: https://github.com/rcbops/rpc-maas
- https://github.com/stackforge/monitoring-for-openstack
- https://github.com/sensu/sensu-community-plugins/tree/master/plugins/openstack
- https://github.com/cirrax/openstack-nagios-plugins
- http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=nagios-plugins-openstack
Database
- Percona Toolkit: http://www.percona.com/software/percona-toolkit
Other tools
- Generic operations tools for OpenStack: https://github.com/osops/tools-generic
- CERN Tools repositories: https://github.com/cernops