A K12sysadmin’s Musings and Recap of the Past Few Years

• Ansible

  390 61,137 9.8 Python

  Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.

  

Now more than ever, we should be considering using Free and Open Source technologies before rushing out and buying products and services. Automation tools like Ansible, or software management tools like Munki are high quality and free. Even traditional needs like storage and firewalling can be augmented with high quality open source products like PFSense or TrueNAS. Hell, Packet Fence can even give you an extremely competitive product to Cisco ISE for free. Remember your annual renewal for Track-IT or whatever ticketing system you are using? Maybe you should consider using osTicket. Even FOSS virtualization platforms like XCP-NG and Proxmox are really coming to their own. With all of the instability over at VMWare, being bought by Dell, spun off, and now bought by Broadcom, I don’t know what I am going to do.

• middleware

  171 2,204 9.9 Python

  TrueNAS CORE/Enterprise/SCALE Middleware Git Repository

  

Now more than ever, we should be considering using Free and Open Source technologies before rushing out and buying products and services. Automation tools like Ansible, or software management tools like Munki are high quality and free. Even traditional needs like storage and firewalling can be augmented with high quality open source products like PFSense or TrueNAS. Hell, Packet Fence can even give you an extremely competitive product to Cisco ISE for free. Remember your annual renewal for Track-IT or whatever ticketing system you are using? Maybe you should consider using osTicket. Even FOSS virtualization platforms like XCP-NG and Proxmox are really coming to their own. With all of the instability over at VMWare, being bought by Dell, spun off, and now bought by Broadcom, I don’t know what I am going to do.

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• pfSense

  186 4,624 9.5 PHP

  Main repository for pfSense

  

Now more than ever, we should be considering using Free and Open Source technologies before rushing out and buying products and services. Automation tools like Ansible, or software management tools like Munki are high quality and free. Even traditional needs like storage and firewalling can be augmented with high quality open source products like PFSense or TrueNAS. Hell, Packet Fence can even give you an extremely competitive product to Cisco ISE for free. Remember your annual renewal for Track-IT or whatever ticketing system you are using? Maybe you should consider using osTicket. Even FOSS virtualization platforms like XCP-NG and Proxmox are really coming to their own. With all of the instability over at VMWare, being bought by Dell, spun off, and now bought by Broadcom, I don’t know what I am going to do.

• munki

  44 3,006 8.5 Python

  Managed software installation for macOS —

  

Now more than ever, we should be considering using Free and Open Source technologies before rushing out and buying products and services. Automation tools like Ansible, or software management tools like Munki are high quality and free. Even traditional needs like storage and firewalling can be augmented with high quality open source products like PFSense or TrueNAS. Hell, Packet Fence can even give you an extremely competitive product to Cisco ISE for free. Remember your annual renewal for Track-IT or whatever ticketing system you are using? Maybe you should consider using osTicket. Even FOSS virtualization platforms like XCP-NG and Proxmox are really coming to their own. With all of the instability over at VMWare, being bought by Dell, spun off, and now bought by Broadcom, I don’t know what I am going to do.

• osTicket

  65 3,062 7.3 PHP

  The osTicket open source ticketing system official project repository, for versions 1.8 and later

  

Now more than ever, we should be considering using Free and Open Source technologies before rushing out and buying products and services. Automation tools like Ansible, or software management tools like Munki are high quality and free. Even traditional needs like storage and firewalling can be augmented with high quality open source products like PFSense or TrueNAS. Hell, Packet Fence can even give you an extremely competitive product to Cisco ISE for free. Remember your annual renewal for Track-IT or whatever ticketing system you are using? Maybe you should consider using osTicket. Even FOSS virtualization platforms like XCP-NG and Proxmox are really coming to their own. With all of the instability over at VMWare, being bought by Dell, spun off, and now bought by Broadcom, I don’t know what I am going to do.

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

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