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DebOps

Your Debian-based data center in a box

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DebOps is a free and open source toolset for bootstrapping and managing IT infrastructure built on Debian or Ubuntu. It uses Ansible as its configuration management platform, providing a collection of Ansible roles and playbooks that work together in an integrated environment. It can manage a single host, a group of Debian or Ubuntu hosts, or an entire data center, with hosts running as physical or virtual machines or as LXC/Docker containers.

The roles cover services including X.509 certificate management with Let's Encrypt support, a GitLab-based git hosting platform, host and network monitoring through LibreNMS, and cloud file hosting with Nextcloud or ownCloud. DebOps can be tried without local installation using Docker or Vagrant, or installed as a set of scripts for managing multiple separate infrastructure environments. The project documentation includes a quick start, user manual, developer guide, and community resources.

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    Covers 3 of 15 key features and has a free plan.

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    Covers 3 of 15 key features.

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  4. Proxmox

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    Free planOpen source
    62 out of 100 matchContact sales

  5. Apache CloudStack

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  7. OpenStack

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    Covers 6 of 15 key features and has a free plan.

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  9. Terraform

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    Covers 3 of 15 key features and has a free plan.

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  10. Kubernetes

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    Covers 4 of 15 key features and has a free plan.

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    Covers 4 of 15 key features and has a free plan.

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  12. Bitnami

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