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.
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.