Bento

A modularized collection of Packer definitions for building machine images. A good place to start with Packer.

     

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Foreman

A complete lifecycle management tool for servers, both self-hosted and in the cloud. It allows you to create and manage instances, build and deploy images, view and audit hosts, and much more! It works with Puppet or Chef, and has multiple interaction facilities like a web frontend, CLI and a RESTful API.

     

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Nebula

Nebula is a Docker orchestration tool designed to manage massive scale distributed clusters

     

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OSV

An operating system for lightweight virtual machines, designed from ground-up to run a single application, similar to CoreOS

     

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Supervisor

Supervisor can manage application processes. It can start and stop a group of processes, restart processes if any of them terminate (keep-alive), start multiple instances of the same process (process pooling), automatically manage PID files, and much more! Very useful if you need to manage multiple processes for your application.

     

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Vagrant

Vagrant is a cross platform tool to create, boot, configure and destroy development environments. It provides a simple configuration-based approach to take a base image, boot it up, provision it (using any other provisioners), SSH, port forward, and much more. It automates the process of booting up and configuring virtual machines. It supports various providers like VirtualBox, VMWare, AWS, LXC, etc.

     

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