data.yml

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# yaml-language-server: $schema=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/steinzi/network-automation-landscape/main/schemas/landscape2-data-schema.json
# Landscape2 data
#
# This file contains the data that will be used to generate the landscape.
#
# Reference documentation: https://github.com/cncf/landscape2/blob/main/docs/config/data.yml

# Note: The strangest thing we are doing is using a item's maturity value to describe the software business model and or licence.
# This is not the best way to do this but it is the way we are doing it for now.

categories:
  - name: Network state
    subcategories:
      - name: Network Source of Truth
        items:
          - name: Netbox Community
            # project: This maps to the settings.yml featured_items maturity options.
            # To describe the software business model and or licence.
            project: full-open-source
            crunchbase: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/netbox-labs
            description: NetBox is the leading solution for modeling and documenting modern networks.
            homepage_url: https://netboxlabs.com
            logo: netbox_logo.svg
            repo_url: https://github.com/netbox-community/netbox
            twitter: https://twitter.com/NetBoxOfficial
            extra:
              accepted: "2024-05-14"
              summary_intro_url: https://youtu.be/jr9Pxx0NkTc
              summary_integration: "IP Fabric, Slurpit"
              youtube_url: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs5FgE5p03tP-8InKVIojdw
              documentation_url: https://netboxlabs.com/docs/netbox/en/stable/
              tag: nsot
              summary_tags: "ipam, dcim, nsot, database"
              blog_url: https://netboxlabs.com/blog/
              docker_url: https://hub.docker.com/r/netboxcommunity/netbox/
              summary_business_use_case: "Provides centralized network intended state and documentation as well as IPAM and DCIM and scripting functionality."

          - name: InfraHub
            project: full-open-source
            description: Infrahub from OpsMill is taking a new approach to Infrastructure Management by providing a new generation of datastore to organize and control all the data that defines how an infrastructure should run. Infrahub offers a central hub to manage the data, templates and playbooks that powers your infrastructure by combining the version control and branch management capabilities of Git with the flexible data model and UI of a graph database.
            homepage_url: https://www.opsmill.com
            logo: infrahub.svg
            repo_url: https://github.com/opsmill/infrahub
            extra:
              key_features: "Infrastructure modeling, version control, API-first design"
              summary_use_case: "Network infrastructure modeling, automation integration"

          - name: Nautobot
            project: full-open-source
            description: Nautobot is a Network Source of Truth and Network Automation Platform.
            homepage_url: https://nautobot.com/
            logo: nautobot.png
            repo_url: https://github.com/nautobot/nautobot
            extra:
              documentation_url: https://docs.nautobot.com/
              github_discussions_url: https://github.com/nautobot/nautobot/discussions
              summary_use_case: "Provides a centralized network inventory management and automation platform with extensible data models and Git-based version control"
              summary_tags: "network inventory, configuration management, automation platform, API-first, extensible"
              summary_business_use_case: "Improves network operations efficiency and reduces errors through centralized network management and automation"
              summary_integration: "Integrates with various automation tools and supports custom plugins"
              blog_url: https://blog.networktocode.com
              summary_personas: "Network Engineers, DevOps Engineers, Network Architects"
              summary_release_rate: "Regular releases with long-term support versions"
              youtube_url: https://www.youtube.com/@networktocode6721

          - name: Peering Manager
            project: full-open-source
            description: Peering Manager is a BGP management tool
            homepage_url: https://peering-manager.net/
            logo: peering-manager.svg
            repo_url: https://github.com/peering-manager/peering-manager
            extra:
              documentation_url: https://docs.peering-manager.net/
              tag: nsot
              docker_url: https://hub.docker.com/r/peeringmanager/peering-manager
              github_discussions_url: https://github.com/peering-manager/peering-manager/discussions
              summary_use_case: "Provides a source of truth and configuration management for external BGP sessions of all kind (transit, customers, peering, …)"
              summary_tags: "BGP inventory, configuration management, API-first"
              summary_business_use_case: "Improves BGP peering with other networks and reduces errors through automation"
              summary_personas: "Network Engineers, Network Architects"

      - name: Network Discovery/Assurance
        items:
          - name: Forward Networks
            project: enterprise
            description: Forward Networks' flagship software, Forward Enterprise, delivers the best digital twin technology to the world's largest networks.
            homepage_url: https://forwardnetworks.com
            logo: forwardnetworks.png
            extra:
              summary_use_case: "Network assurance, verification, troubleshooting"
              summary_integration: "Netbox"
              summary_business_use_case: "Network verification and troubleshooting for brownfield networks"
              summary_tags: "network assurance, network verification, network troubleshooting"

          - name: NetBrain
            project: enterprise
            description: NetBrain is a network automation and visibility platform that provides dynamic network mapping, automated network documentation, and intelligent troubleshooting capabilities for enterprise networks.
            homepage_url: https://www.netbraintech.com/
            logo: netbrain.png
            crunchbase: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/netbrain-technologies
            extra:
              summary_use_case: "Dynamic network mapping, automated network documentation, intelligent troubleshooting, and network automation"
              summary_business_use_case: "Enhances network visibility, accelerates problem resolution, and improves operational efficiency through automation of network documentation and troubleshooting processes"
              summary_integration: "Integrates with various IT service management (ITSM) tools, security information and event management (SIEM) systems, and network monitoring platforms"
              summary_tags: "network automation, network visibility, dynamic mapping, troubleshooting, intent-based networking"
              summary_personas: "Network Engineers, Network Architects, IT Operations, NOC Teams"
              summary_release_rate: "Regular releases for both on-premises and cloud versions"
              blog_url: https://www.netbraintech.com/blog/
              summary_features: "Dynamic Network Mapping, Runbook Automation, Intent-Based Automation, Network Digital Twin, Adaptive Network Automation"

          - name: IP Fabric
            project: enterprise
            crunchbase: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/ip-fabric
            description: IP Fabric is a network infrastructure visibility and analytics solution helping enterprise network&security teams deliver network assurance and automation.
            homepage_url: https://ipfabric.io
            logo: ipfabric.svg
            twitter: https://x.com/IPFabric
            extra:
              summary_use_case: "Discovery and modeling and assurance of network infrastructure with multivendor support allowing you to view the high level network design and drill down to the device or technology level."
              summary_integration: "Ansible, Itential, Nautobot, Netbox, Nornir, Splunk, Zabbix"
              summary_business_use_case: "Visibility for brownfield network assurance by discovering and modeling the network infrastructure by collecting data from the devices using credentials and APIs."
              summary_tags: "network assurance, network visibility, network analytics, network discovery, network modeling"

          - name: Slurpit
            project: freemium
            crunchbase: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/cloud-native-computing-foundation
            description: Slurp’it is a powerful and easy-to-use network discovery solution that offers 100% accurate network inventory. No coding required.
            homepage_url: https://slurpit.io
            logo: slurpit.png
            extra:
              summary_integration: "Netbox"
              summary_use_case: "discovery and inventory with a focus on ease of use and accuracy. No coding required."
              summary_business_use_case: "[10 free licence shenanigans] Provides a network inventory and discovery solution that is easy to use and accurate."

      - name: Testing, Compliance & Querying
        items:
          # TODO add the enterprise version
          - name: SuzieQ
            project: freemium
            description: An open-source, multivendor network observability platform for cloud-first networks.
            homepage_url: https://www.suzieq.io/
            logo: suzieq.png
            repo_url: https://github.com/netenglabs/suzieq
            extra:
              documentation_url: https://suzieq.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
              summary_use_case: "Provides comprehensive network state analysis, troubleshooting, change validation, and intent verification for multivendor networks"
              summary_tags: "network observability, multivendor, agentless, cloud-first, network state analysis"
              summary_business_use_case: "Improves network reliability and reduces downtime by providing deep insights into network state and behavior"
              summary_integration: "Supports various network operating systems and cloud platforms"
              blog_url: https://www.stardustsystems.net/blog
              summary_personas: "Network Engineers, Cloud Architects, DevOps Engineers"
              summary_release_rate: "yearly updates"

          - name: Netpicker
            project: freemium
            description: Test the design, security and compliance of your network, A Python-based testing platform for your network
            homepage_url: https://netpicker.io
            logo: netpicker.png
            extra:
              summary_tags: "network testing, device_backup, change-validation, compliance, configuration security"
              summary_use_case: "[free 10 device Shenanigans licence] Network configuration testing, Configuration backups and compliance with a hardening config and security angle. Needs 3rd party discovery tool or manual add devices"
              summary_integration: "Netbox, Slurpit"
              summary_business_use_case: "Enhances network security and compliance while reducing manual configuration errors"
              # bad url on site
              documentation_url: https://netpicker.io/documentation/
              summary_release_rate: "Regularly updated"
              summary_personas: "Network Engineers, Security Analysts, Compliance Officers"

          - name: Batfish
            project: full-open-source
            description: A network configuration analysis tool that builds a mathematical model of network behavior, allowing for advanced querying and validation.
            homepage_url: https://www.batfish.org/
            logo: batfish.png
            repo_url: https://github.com/batfish/batfish
            extra:
              documentation_url: https://pybatfish.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
              summary_use_case: "Performs network configuration analysis, validation, and troubleshooting without the need for live network access"
              summary_tags: "network analysis, configuration validation, security policy checking, troubleshooting"
              summary_business_use_case: "Reduces network outages and security vulnerabilities by catching misconfigurations before deployment"
              summary_integration: "Ansible, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines"

          - name: anta
            project: full-open-source
            description: "Arista Network Test Automation (ANTA) Framework is a Python framework that automates tests for Arista devices."
            homepage_url: https://anta.arista.com/stable/
            logo: anta.png
            repo_url: https://github.com/aristanetworks/anta
            extra:
              documentation_url: https://anta.arista.com/stable/
              summary_use_case: "Provides a Python-based framework for automating tests on Arista network devices, enabling efficient validation of network configurations and operations"
              summary_tags: "network automation, testing, Arista, Python, network validation"
              summary_business_use_case: "Improves network reliability and reduces operational costs by automating the testing and validation of Arista network infrastructures"
              summary_integration: "Integrates with Arista EOS (Extensible Operating System) and supports various testing scenarios"
              summary_personas: "Network Engineers, DevOps Engineers, Test Engineers, Arista Network Administrators"
              summary_release_rate: "Regularly updated with new features and improvements"

          - name: Ondatra
            project: full-open-source
            description: "Ondatra (Open Network Device Automated Test Runner and API) is a framework for writing and running tests against both real and containerized network devices."
            homepage_url: https://github.com/openconfig/ondatra
            logo: ondatra.png
            repo_url: https://github.com/openconfig/ondatra
            extra:
              documentation_url: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/openconfig/ondatra
              summary_use_case: "Enables writing and running automated tests for network devices, supporting both physical and containerized environments"
              summary_tags: "network testing, automation, GoLang, OpenConfig, containerized testing"
              summary_business_use_case: "Improves network reliability and reduces time-to-market for network changes by facilitating comprehensive automated testing"
              summary_integration: "Compatible with OpenConfig data models and various network device platforms"
              summary_personas: "Network Engineers, DevOps Engineers, Test Engineers"
              summary_release_rate: "Actively maintained and updated"

          - name: pyATS
            project: full-open-source
            description: "Cisco pyATS is a Network Test and Automation Solution that was developed for internal Cisco engineering use, and it is now freely available."
            homepage_url: https://developer.cisco.com/pyats/
            logo: pyats.png
            repo_url: https://github.com/CiscoTestAutomation/pyats
            extra:
              documentation_url: https://developer.cisco.com/docs/pyats/
              summary_use_case: "Provides a powerful framework for network automation, testing, and validation, originally developed for Cisco's internal use"
              summary_tags: "network automation, testing, validation, Cisco, Python"
              summary_business_use_case: "Accelerates network testing and validation processes, reducing time-to-market for network changes and improving overall network reliability"
              summary_integration: "Integrates with various Cisco platforms and supports multi-vendor environments"
              summary_personas: "Network Engineers, DevOps Engineers, Test Engineers"
              summary_release_rate: "Regularly updated with new features and bug fixes"
              blog_url: https://blogs.cisco.com/tag/pyats

          - name: NUTS
            project: full-open-source
            description: "NUTS (Network Unit Testing System) is a Pytest plugin enabling network testing using YAML files."
            homepage_url: https://nuts.readthedocs.io/
            logo: nuts.png
            repo_url: https://github.com/network-unit-testing-system/nuts
            extra:
              documentation_url: https://nuts.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
              github_discussions_url: https://github.com/network-unit-testing-system/nuts/discussions
              summary_use_case: "Simplifies network testing by allowing engineers to write tests in YAML format using a PyTest plugin"
              summary_tags: "network testing, pytest plugin, yaml, vendor-neutral"
              summary_business_use_case: "Improves network reliability and reduces downtime by enabling comprehensive and easy-to-write network tests"
              summary_integration: "PyTest"
              summary_personas: "Network Engineers, DevOps Engineers, QA Engineers"
              summary_release_rate: "Regularly updated"

  - name: Telemetry and observability
    subcategories:
      # TODO: Figure out better names and layout for this section
      - name: Observability
        items:
          - name: Kentik
            project: saas
            description: Kentik is a network observability platform that uses big data and AI to provide real-time network analytics, DDoS protection, and traffic optimization.
            homepage_url: https://www.kentik.com/
            logo: kentik.png
            extra:
              summary_use_case: "Network traffic analysis, DDoS detection and mitigation, capacity planning, and performance optimization"
              summary_business_use_case: "Enhances network visibility, improves security posture, and optimizes network performance for better user experience and reduced operational costs"
              summary_integration: "Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), network devices, firewalls, and CDNs"
              summary_tags: "network analytics, DDoS protection, traffic optimization, cloud networking, AI-driven insights"
              summary_personas: "Network Engineers, Security Analysts, Cloud Architects, IT Operations"
              summary_release_rate: "Continuous updates (SaaS model)"
              blog_url: https://www.kentik.com/blog/
              documentation_url: https://kb.kentik.com/
              linkedin_url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/kentik/
              youtube_url: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsTYhGUm81x6m6lQ-QUwfKA
              twitter: https://twitter.com/kentikinc

      - name: Monitoring & Alerting
        items:
          # ... (previous items remain unchanged)

          - name: Orb Community
            project: full-open-source
            description: Orb is an open-source observability platform that provides a unified view of metrics, logs, and traces. It aims to simplify the complexities of observability by offering an integrated solution for monitoring and troubleshooting distributed systems.
            homepage_url: https://orb.community/
            logo: orb-community.png
            repo_url: https://github.com/orb-community/orb
            extra:
              summary_use_case: "Unified observability platform for metrics, logs, and traces in distributed systems"
              summary_business_use_case: "Enables organizations to gain comprehensive insights into their systems' performance and behavior, reducing mean time to detection and resolution of issues"
              summary_integration: "Supports various data sources and protocols including Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and InfluxDB"
              summary_tags: "observability, open-source, metrics, logs, traces, distributed systems"
              summary_personas: "DevOps Engineers, Site Reliability Engineers, Software Developers, IT Operations"
              summary_release_rate: "Ongoing development with community-driven updates"
              documentation_url: https://orb.community/documentation/running_orb_agent/
              github_discussions_url: https://github.com/orb-community/orb/discussions
              summary_features: "Unified dashboard for metrics, logs, and traces; multi-tenancy support; plugin system for extensibility"

          - name: Elastic Stack (ELK)
            project: hybrid
            description: Elastic Stack, formerly known as ELK Stack, is a group of open source products from Elastic designed to help users take data from any type of source and in any format and search, analyze, and visualize it in real time.
            homepage_url: https://www.elastic.co/elastic-stack/
            logo: elastic-stack.png
            crunchbase: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/elastic
            extra:
              twitter: https://twitter.com/elastic
              summary_use_case: "Log analysis, application performance monitoring, security information and event management (SIEM)"
              summary_business_use_case: "Provides comprehensive data analysis and visualization capabilities, enabling organizations to gain insights from their data, improve operational efficiency, and enhance security posture"
              summary_integration: "Various data sources, Logstash plugins, Beats data shippers, cloud platforms"
              summary_tags: "log analysis, data visualization, full-text search, real-time analytics, observability"
              summary_personas: "DevOps Engineers, Data Analysts, Security Analysts, IT Operations"
              summary_release_rate: "Major releases approximately every quarter"
              blog_url: https://www.elastic.co/blog/
              documentation_url: https://www.elastic.co/guide/index.html
              linkedin_url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/elastic-co/
              youtube_url: https://www.youtube.com/user/elasticsearch
              stack_overflow_url: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/elasticsearch
              summary_components: "Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Beats"

          - name: Datadog
            project: saas
            description: Datadog is a monitoring and analytics platform for large-scale applications. It brings together data from servers, containers, databases, and third-party services to make your stack entirely observable.
            homepage_url: https://www.datadoghq.com/
            logo: datadog.png
            crunchbase: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/datadog
            extra:
              twitter: https://twitter.com/datadoghq
              summary_use_case: "Infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring, log management, user experience monitoring, and security monitoring"
              summary_business_use_case: "Provides end-to-end observability for cloud environments, helping organizations troubleshoot issues faster, optimize application performance, and make data-driven decisions"
              summary_integration: "400+ built-in integrations including AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, databases, and various DevOps tools"
              summary_tags: "cloud monitoring, APM, log management, real-time analytics, distributed tracing"
              summary_personas: "DevOps Engineers, Site Reliability Engineers, Software Developers, IT Operations, Security Analysts"
              summary_release_rate: "Continuous updates (SaaS model)"
              blog_url: https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/
              documentation_url: https://docs.datadoghq.com/
              github_discussions_url: https://github.com/DataDog/datadog-agent/discussions
              linkedin_url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/datadog/
              youtube_url: https://www.youtube.com/user/DatadogHQ
              stack_overflow_url: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/datadog
              summary_features: "Real-time dashboards, alerts, APM, log correlation, machine learning-based anomaly detection"

          - name: Splunk
            project: hybrid
            description: Splunk [a Cisco company] is a software platform for searching, monitoring, and analyzing machine-generated big data, via a web-style interface. It captures, indexes, and correlates real-time data in a searchable repository, from which it can generate graphs, reports, alerts, dashboards, and visualizations.
            homepage_url: https://www.splunk.com/
            logo: splunk.svg
            crunchbase: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/splunk
            extra:
              twitter: https://twitter.com/splunk
              summary_use_case: "Log management, security information and event management (SIEM), application performance monitoring, IT operations management, business analytics"
              summary_business_use_case: "Enables organizations to search, monitor, analyze and visualize machine-generated big data, providing operational intelligence, proactive monitoring, and comprehensive security analytics"
              summary_integration: "Extensive app ecosystem, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), networking equipment, security tools, and custom data sources"
              summary_tags: "log analysis, SIEM, real-time analytics, machine learning, predictive analytics, IT operations"
              summary_personas: "IT Operations, Security Analysts, DevOps Engineers, Business Analysts, Data Scientists"
              summary_release_rate: "Major releases typically twice a year, with frequent updates for cloud offerings"
              blog_url: https://www.splunk.com/en_us/blog.html
              documentation_url: https://docs.splunk.com/
              linkedin_url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/splunk/
              youtube_url: https://www.youtube.com/user/splunkvideos
              stack_overflow_url: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/splunk
              summary_features: "Real-time data indexing, powerful search processing language (SPL), machine learning capabilities, customizable dashboards and visualizations"

          - name: Icinga
            project: full-open-source
            description: Monitoring system which checks the availability of your network resources, notifies users of outages, and generates performance data for reporting.
            homepage_url: https://icinga.com
            logo: icinga.png
            repo_url: https://github.com/Icinga/icinga2
            extra:
              documentation_url: https://icinga.com/docs/
              blog_url: https://icinga.com/blog/
              summary_use_case: "Provides comprehensive monitoring for network resources, services, and applications"
              summary_tags: "monitoring, alerting, network, infrastructure"
              summary_business_use_case: "Ensures high availability and performance of IT infrastructure"
              docker_url: https://hub.docker.com/u/icinga

          - name: LibreNMS
            project: full-open-source
            description: A fully featured network monitoring system that provides a wealth of features and device support.
            homepage_url: https://www.librenms.org
            logo: librenms.png
            repo_url: https://github.com/librenms/librenms
            extra:
              documentation_url: https://docs.librenms.org/
              summary_use_case: "Network device monitoring, performance tracking, alerting, and reporting"
              summary_business_use_case: "Provides comprehensive network visibility and monitoring, enabling organizations to proactively manage their network infrastructure and quickly identify and resolve issues"
              summary_integration: "Oxidized, Smokeping, NFSen, Weathermap"
              summary_tags: "network monitoring, SNMP, syslog, autodiscovery, alerting, reporting"
              summary_personas: "Network Engineers, System Administrators, IT Operations Teams"
              summary_release_rate: "Monthly releases with frequent updates"
              blog_url: https://community.librenms.org/c/blog/8
              twitter: https://twitter.com/librenms
              discord_url: https://discord.gg/librenms

          - name: eNMS
            project: full-open-source
            description: eNMS is a vendor-agnostic NMS designed for building workflow-based network automation solutions, with a focus on visualization, inventory management, and service scheduling.
            homepage_url: https://github.com/eNMS-automation/eNMS
            logo: enms.png
            repo_url: https://github.com/eNMS-automation/eNMS
            extra:
              documentation_url: https://enms.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
              summary_use_case: "Network automation, workflow management, network visualization, and inventory management"
              summary_business_use_case: "Streamlines network operations by providing a centralized platform for network automation, visualization, and management, improving efficiency and reducing manual errors"
              summary_integration: "Supports integration with various network devices and protocols, as well as external services like Ansible, Netmiko, and NAPALM"
              summary_tags: "network automation, workflow management, inventory management, visualization, open-source"
              summary_personas: "Network Engineers, DevOps Engineers, Network Automation Specialists"
              summary_release_rate: "Regular updates with new features and improvements"
              github_discussions_url: https://github.com/eNMS-automation/eNMS/discussions

          - name: Observium
            project: hybrid
            description: "Observium is a low-maintenance auto-discovering network monitoring platform supporting a wide range of device types, platforms and operating systems."
            homepage_url: https://www.observium.org/
            logo: observium.png
            repo_url: https://github.com/observium/docker-observium
            extra:
              documentation_url: https://docs.observium.org/
              summary_use_case: "Provides comprehensive network monitoring and management with auto-discovery capabilities, supporting a wide range of devices and platforms"
              summary_tags: "network monitoring, auto-discovery, multi-vendor, SNMP, Syslog, alerting"
              summary_business_use_case: "Enhances network visibility and reduces downtime by providing real-time monitoring, alerting, and historical data analysis for network infrastructure"
              summary_integration: "Supports various network devices, servers, and applications through SNMP, Syslog, and other protocols"
              summary_personas: "Network Administrators, System Administrators, IT Operations Teams"
              summary_release_rate: "Regular releases with community and professional editions"
              twitter: https://twitter.com/observium

          - name: Prometheus
            project: full-open-source
            description: An open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit, popular in cloud-native environments but also very applicable to network monitoring.
            homepage_url: https://prometheus.io/
            logo: prometheus.png
            repo_url: https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus
            extra:
              documentation_url: https://prometheus.io/docs/introduction/overview/
              github_discussions_url: https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/discussions
              summary_use_case: "Network performance monitoring, alerting, service level indicator (SLI) tracking"
              summary_business_use_case: "Enables organizations to gain real-time insights into system performance, detect anomalies quickly, and maintain high service reliability"
              summary_integration: "Grafana, Alertmanager, various exporters for different systems and services"
              summary_tags: "monitoring, metrics, alerting, time series database, cloud-native"
              summary_personas: "Site Reliability Engineers, DevOps Engineers, System Administrators, Network Engineers"
              summary_release_rate: "Major releases approximately every 6-8 weeks"
              blog_url: https://prometheus.io/blog/
              twitter: https://twitter.com/PrometheusIO
              youtube_url: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4pLFely0-Odea4B2NL1nWA
              slack_url: https://slack.cncf.io/
              clomonitor_name: "prometheus"
              dev_stats_url: https://prometheus.devstats.cncf.io/

          - name: Grafana
            project: hybrid
            description: The open source graphical analytics & monitoring solution default. Often used in conjunction with Prometheus for network monitoring visualization.
            homepage_url: https://grafana.com/
            logo: grafana.png
            repo_url: https://github.com/grafana/grafana
            extra:
              documentation_url: https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/
              summary_use_case: "Network performance visualization, capacity planning, troubleshooting"
              summary_business_use_case: "Provides intuitive, customizable dashboards for real-time data visualization, enabling better decision-making and faster problem resolution across various IT domains"
              summary_integration: "Prometheus, InfluxDB, Loki, Elasticsearch, MySQL, PostgreSQL"
              summary_tags: "data visualization, monitoring, analytics, dashboards, observability"
              summary_personas: "DevOps Engineers, Site Reliability Engineers, Network Engineers, Data Analysts"
              summary_release_rate: "Major releases approximately every 2-3 months, with minor releases more frequently"
              blog_url: https://grafana.com/blog/
              twitter: https://twitter.com/grafana
              linkedin_url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/grafana-labs/

          - name: Zabbix
            project: full-open-source
            description: An enterprise-class open source distributed monitoring solution for networks and applications.
            homepage_url: https://www.zabbix.com/
            logo: zabbix.png
            repo_url: https://github.com/zabbix/zabbix
            extra:
              documentation_url: https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/current/en/manual
              summary_use_case: "Network device monitoring, performance tracking, capacity planning"
              summary_business_use_case: "Provides comprehensive infrastructure monitoring, helping organizations detect and resolve IT issues quickly, optimize performance, and plan for future growth"
              summary_integration: "SNMP, IPMI, JMX, VMware monitoring"
              summary_tags: "monitoring, alerting, trending, network monitoring, application monitoring, open-source"
              summary_personas: "System Administrators, Network Engineers, DevOps Engineers, IT Operations"
              summary_release_rate: "Major releases annually, with minor releases more frequently"
              blog_url: https://blog.zabbix.com/
              twitter: https://twitter.com/zabbix
              linkedin_url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/zabbix/
              youtube_url: https://www.youtube.com/user/ZabbixSIA
              slack_url: https://zabbix.com/community
              mailing_list_url: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/zabbix-users

      - name: Telemetry & Data Collection
        items:
          - name: Telegraf
            project: full-open-source
            description: "Telegraf is a plugin-driven server agent for collecting and reporting metrics. It has integrations to source a variety of metrics, events, and logs directly from containers and systems it's running on, as well as pulling metrics from third-party APIs."
            homepage_url: https://www.influxdata.com/time-series-platform/telegraf/
            logo: telegraf.png
            repo_url: https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf
            extra:
              documentation_url: https://docs.influxdata.com/telegraf/
              github_discussions_url: https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/discussions
              summary_use_case: "Collects metrics from a wide variety of sources and writes them to various destinations, enabling comprehensive monitoring and observability of systems and applications"
              summary_tags: "metrics collection, monitoring, time series data, plugin-driven, multi-platform"
              summary_business_use_case: "Enhances system and application observability by providing a flexible, extensible solution for collecting and forwarding metrics, enabling better decision-making and faster problem resolution"
              summary_integration: "Integrates with numerous input sources (e.g., systems, containers, APIs) and output destinations (e.g., InfluxDB, Prometheus, Kafka)"
              summary_personas: "DevOps Engineers, System Administrators, Site Reliability Engineers, Data Engineers"
              summary_release_rate: "Regular releases with new features, plugins, and bug fixes"
              twitter: https://twitter.com/influxdb
              blog_url: https://www.influxdata.com/blog/
              youtube_url: https://www.youtube.com/influxdata
          - name: gNMIc
            project: full-open-source
            description: gNMIc is a full-featured gNMI-focused streaming telemetry collector with rich data processing capabilities and high-availability support.
            homepage_url: https://gnmic.openconfig.net/
            logo: gnmic.svg
            repo_url: https://github.com/openconfig/gnmic
            extra:
              documentation_url: https://gnmic.openconfig.net/
              summary_use_case: "gNMI-based network device management, telemetry collection"
              summary_tags: "gNMI, network automation, telemetry, Go"
              summary_personas: "Network Engineers, SREs, Network Automation Specialists"
              summary_features: "gNMI client, telemetry collection, configuration management"


  - name: Virtualization
    subcategories:
      - name: Network virtualization platforms
        items:
          - name: eve-ng
            project: freemium
            description: EVE-NG is a network emulator that supports virtualized network environments.
            homepage_url: https://www.eve-ng.net
            logo: eve-ng.png
          - name: GNS3
            project: full-open-source
            description: GNS3 is a network software emulator that allows the combination of virtual and real devices.
            homepage_url: https://www.gns3.com
            repo_url: https://github.com/GNS3/gns3-gui
            logo: gns3.png
          - name: Containerlab
            project: full-open-source
            description: Nokia Containerlab is a container-based network emulation tool that allows you to define and deploy complex network topologies.
            homepage_url: https://containerlab.srlinux.dev
            repo_url: https://github.com/srl-labs/containerlab
            logo: containerlab.png
          - name: Cisco Modeling Labs
            project: commercial-only
            description: Cisco Modeling Labs is a network simulation platform that allows you to design, build, and test network topologies.
            homepage_url: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/cloud-systems-management/modeling-labs/index.html
            logo: cisco-modeling-labs.png
          - name: netlab
            project: full-open-source
            description: "netlab is a network lab builder and CLI tool that creates virtual network labs using libvirt, Docker, or Podman containers. It supports multiple virtualization providers and network operating systems."
            homepage_url: https://netlab.tools/
            logo: ipspace-netlab.png
            repo_url: https://github.com/ipspace/netlab
            extra:
              documentation_url: https://netlab.tools/docs/
              github_discussions_url: https://github.com/ipspace/netlab/discussions
              summary_use_case: "Enables network engineers and developers to quickly create and manage virtual network topologies for testing, development, and learning purposes"
              summary_tags: "network virtualization, lab automation, multi-vendor, containerization, network simulation"
              summary_business_use_case: "Accelerates network testing and development processes by providing an easy-to-use platform for creating realistic network environments without the need for physical hardware"
              summary_integration: "Supports various virtualization providers (libvirt, Docker, Podman) and multiple network operating systems"
              summary_personas: "Network Engineers, DevOps Engineers, Network Architects, Network Security Professionals"
              summary_release_rate: "Regularly updated with new features and device support"
              blog_url: https://blog.ipspace.net/
              twitter: https://twitter.com/ioshints

  - name: Automation Tooling
    subcategories:
      - name: Continuous Configuration Automation (CCA)
        items:
          - name: Ansible
            project: full-open-source
            description: Ansible is a simple, agentless IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy. It's particularly popular in network automation for its ease of use and extensive module library.
            homepage_url: https://www.ansible.com
            logo: ansible.png
            repo_url: https://github.com/ansible/ansible
            extra:
              documentation_url: https://docs.ansible.com/
              summary_use_case: "Network configuration management, compliance automation, bulk changes"
              summary_business_use_case: "Simplifies complex IT workflows, reduces manual errors, and improves operational efficiency across diverse IT environments"
              summary_integration: "AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, VMware, Cisco, Juniper, F5, Arista"
              summary_tags: "automation, configuration management, orchestration, agentless, YAML-based"
              summary_personas: "System Administrators, Network Engineers, DevOps Engineers, Cloud Architects"
              summary_release_rate: "Major releases approximately every 6 months, with minor releases more frequently"
              blog_url: https://www.ansible.com/blog

          - name: Terraform
            project: hybrid
            description: Terraform is an open-source infrastructure as code software tool that provides a consistent CLI workflow to manage hundreds of cloud services. While primarily focused on cloud infrastructure, it's increasingly used for network automation, especially in cloud-native environments.
            homepage_url: https://www.terraform.io
            logo: terraform.png
            repo_url: https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform
            extra:
              documentation_url: https://www.terraform.io/docs
              summary_use_case: "Cloud network provisioning, multi-cloud networking, SDN configuration"
              summary_business_use_case: "Enables infrastructure as code, improving consistency, reducing errors, and speeding up deployment across multiple cloud providers and on-premises infrastructure"
              summary_integration: "AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, VMware, Cisco ACI, F5, Palo Alto Networks"
              summary_tags: "infrastructure as code, cloud provisioning, network automation, multi-cloud, state management"
              summary_personas: "DevOps Engineers, Cloud Architects, Network Engineers, Site Reliability Engineers"
              summary_release_rate: "Major releases approximately every 3-4 months, with minor releases more frequently"
              blog_url: https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/products/terraform
              youtube_url: https://www.youtube.com/hashicorp
              
          - name: OpenTofu
            project: full-open-source
            description: OpenTofu is an infrastructure as code tool that lets you define both cloud and on-prem resources in human-readable configuration files that you can version, reuse, and share.
            homepage_url: https://opentofu.org
            logo: opentofu.png
            repo_url: https://github.com/opentofu/opentofu
            extra:
              documentation_url: https://opentofu.org/docs
              summary_use_case: "Cloud network provisioning, multi-cloud networking, SDN configuration"
              summary_business_use_case: "Enables infrastructure as code, improving consistency, reducing errors, and speeding up deployment across multiple cloud providers and on-premises infrastructure"
              summary_integration: "AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, VMware, Cisco ACI, F5, Palo Alto Networks"
              summary_tags: "infrastructure as code, cloud provisioning, network automation, multi-cloud, state management"
              summary_personas: "DevOps Engineers, Cloud Architects, Network Engineers, Site Reliability Engineers"
              blog_url: https://opentofu.org/blog/

          - name: Pulumi
            project: hybrid
            description: Pulumi is an open-source infrastructure as code tool that allows you to use familiar programming languages like TypeScript, Python, Go, and .NET to define and manage cloud infrastructure across various providers.
            homepage_url: https://www.pulumi.com
            logo: pulumi.svg
            repo_url: https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi
            extra:
              documentation_url: https://www.pulumi.com/docs/
              summary_use_case: "Cloud infrastructure provisioning, multi-cloud resource management, serverless deployments"
              summary_business_use_case: "Enables developers to use familiar programming languages for infrastructure as code, improving productivity and reducing the learning curve for infrastructure management"
              summary_integration: "AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, Docker, and 60+ cloud and SaaS providers"
              summary_tags: "infrastructure as code, cloud provisioning, multi-cloud, programmable infrastructure, serverless"
              summary_personas: "Software Developers, DevOps Engineers, Cloud Architects, Site Reliability Engineers"
              summary_release_rate: "Major releases approximately every 3-4 months, with minor releases more frequently"
              blog_url: https://www.pulumi.com/blog/
              youtube_url: https://www.youtube.com/c/PulumiTV
              twitter: https://twitter.com/PulumiCorp
              linkedin_url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pulumi

          - name: Salt
            project: full-open-source
            description: Salt is a powerful and flexible open-source software for remote execution, configuration management, and infrastructure orchestration. It's gaining popularity in network automation for its speed and scalability.
            homepage_url: https://saltproject.io
            logo: salt.png
            repo_url: https://github.com/saltstack/salt
            extra:
              github_discussions_url: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/discussions
              documentation_url: https://docs.saltproject.io/
              blog_url: https://saltproject.io/blog/
              summary_business_use_case: "Provides scalable infrastructure automation and configuration management for large-scale network environments"
              summary_use_case: "Large-scale network configuration management, real-time system monitoring, and infrastructure orchestration"
              summary_tags: "configuration management, remote execution, infrastructure automation, network automation"
              summary_release_rate: "Major releases approximately every 6 months"
              summary_integration: "Ansible, Puppet, Docker, Kubernetes"
              summary_personas: "System Administrators, DevOps Engineers, Network Engineers"

      - name: Network Programmability Frameworks
        items:
          - name: NAPALM (Network Automation and Programmability Abstraction Layer with Multivendor support)
            project: full-open-source
            description: NAPALM is a Python library that implements a set of functions to interact with different network device Operating Systems using a unified API.
            homepage_url: https://napalm.readthedocs.io
            logo: napalm.png
            repo_url: https://github.com/napalm-automation/napalm
            extra:
              github_discussions_url: https://github.com/napalm-automation/napalm/discussions
              summary_use_case: "Network device configuration, state retrieval, configuration compliance"
              summary_business_use_case: "Simplifies multi-vendor network management, reduces complexity in network automation, and improves operational efficiency"
              summary_integration: "Ansible, Salt, Nornir, Netbox"
              summary_tags: "network automation, multi-vendor, configuration management, Python library, unified API"
              summary_personas: "Network Engineers, DevOps Engineers, Network Automation Specialists"
              summary_release_rate: "Yearly releases"

          - name: Nornir
            project: full-open-source
            description: Nornir is a pure Python automation framework that can be used for network automation tasks. It's designed to be fast, flexible, and easy to extend.
            homepage_url: https://nornir.readthedocs.io
            logo: nornir.jpg
            repo_url: https://github.com/nornir-automation/nornir
            extra:
              documentation_url: https://nornir.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
              github_discussions_url: https://github.com/nornir-automation/nornir/discussions
              summary_use_case: "Rapid network data collection, configuration deployment, custom automation workflows"
              summary_business_use_case: "Enables efficient and scalable network automation, reducing manual tasks and improving network management productivity"
              summary_integration: "NAPALM, Netmiko, Scrapli, Paramiko"
              summary_tags: "network automation, Python, multi-threading, inventory management, plugin system"
              summary_personas: "Network Engineers, DevOps Engineers, Network Automation Specialists"
              summary_release_rate: "Yearly releases"
              blog_url: https://nornir.tech/nornir/

      - name: Automation Platforms and Management
        items:
          - name: AWX
            project: full-open-source
            description: AWX is the open source upstream project for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. It provides a web-based user interface, REST API, and task engine for Ansible.
            homepage_url: https://github.com/ansible/awx
            logo: awx.svg
            repo_url: https://github.com/ansible/awx
            extra:
              documentation_url: https://docs.ansible.com/automation-controller/latest/html/userguide/index.html
              summary_use_case: "Centralized automation management, team collaboration, audit trails"
              summary_business_use_case: "Provides a user-friendly interface for managing Ansible automation, enabling easier adoption and management of automation across organizations"
              summary_integration: "Ansible, Git, various cloud platforms"
              summary_tags: "automation, orchestration, open-source, web UI, REST API"
              summary_personas: "DevOps Engineers, System Administrators, IT Operations Teams"
              summary_release_rate: "Regular releases, typically every month"
              blog_url: https://www.ansible.com/blog

          - name: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
            project: enterprise
            description: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is a foundation for building and operating automation at scale. It includes all the tools needed to implement enterprise-wide automation.
            homepage_url: https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/management/ansible
            logo: redhat-ansible.png
            extra:
              blog_url: https://www.ansible.com/blog
              documentation_url: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/index.html
              summary_use_case: "Enterprise-wide automation, compliance and governance, self-service IT"
              summary_business_use_case: "Streamlines IT operations, reduces manual errors, and improves efficiency across complex environments"
              summary_integration: "Red Hat OpenShift, VMware, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud"
              summary_tags: "automation, orchestration, configuration management, enterprise, hybrid cloud"
              summary_personas: "System Administrators, DevOps Engineers, Cloud Architects, Security Teams"
              summary_release_rate: "Quarterly updates with long-term support versions"
              twitter: https://twitter.com/ansible
              youtube_url: https://www.youtube.com/ansibleautomation

          - name: rConfig
            project: freemium
            description: rConfig is a free, open source network device configuration management utility for network engineers to take frequent configuration snapshots of their network devices.
            homepage_url: https://www.rconfig.com/
            logo: rconfig.png
            repo_url: https://github.com/rconfig/rconfig
            extra:
              summary_use_case: "Network device configuration backup, compliance monitoring, and change management"
              summary_business_use_case: "Improves network reliability and reduces downtime by providing comprehensive configuration management and change tracking for network devices"
              summary_integration: "Supports various network vendors including Cisco, Juniper, HP, and more"
              summary_tags: "network configuration management, device backup, compliance, change tracking"
              summary_personas: "Network Engineers, System Administrators, IT Operations Teams"
              summary_release_rate: "Regular updates with both community and commercial editions"

          - name: Gluware
            project: enterprise
            description: Gluware is an intelligent network automation platform that enables organizations to automate and orchestrate multi-vendor, multi-domain networks at scale, reducing complexity and accelerating time-to-value.
            homepage_url: https://www.gluware.com/
            logo: glueware.jpg
            crunchbase: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/gluware
            extra:
              summary_use_case: "Network automation, intent-based networking, configuration management, network discovery and inventory, and API-driven integrations"
              summary_business_use_case: "Reduces network complexity, improves agility, enhances security posture, and accelerates digital transformation through intelligent network automation"
              summary_integration: "Supports multi-vendor environments and integrates with various IT service management and security tools"
              summary_tags: "network automation, intent-based networking, configuration management, multi-vendor, orchestration"
              summary_personas: "Network Engineers, Network Architects, IT Operations, CIOs"
              summary_release_rate: "Regular releases for both on-premises and cloud versions"
              blog_url: https://www.gluware.com/blog/
              youtube_url: https://www.youtube.com/user/gluware
              summary_features: "Intent-Based Applications, Intelligent Model-Driven Orchestration, API-Driven Integrations, Pre-Built Automation, Network Discovery and Inventory"

          - name: ZPE Systems
            project: enterprise
            description: ZPE Systems provides innovative network infrastructure solutions, including the Nodegrid platform for out-of-band management, NetOps automation, and edge computing. Their solutions enable organizations to automate, secure, and manage critical network infrastructure.
            homepage_url: https://zpesystems.com/
            logo: zpe-systems.png
            extra:
              summary_use_case: "Out-of-band management, NetOps automation, edge computing, network infrastructure automation and orchestration"
              summary_business_use_case: "Enhances network resilience, improves operational efficiency, and enables secure remote management of distributed network infrastructure"
              summary_integration: "Supports various network devices, cloud platforms, and IT management tools"
              summary_tags: "out-of-band management, NetOps, edge computing, network automation, infrastructure orchestration"
              summary_personas: "Network Engineers, IT Operations, Data Center Managers, DevOps Engineers"
              summary_release_rate: "Regular releases for hardware and software components"
              blog_url: https://zpesystems.com/blog/
              documentation_url: https://support.zpesystems.com/
              linkedin_url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/zpe-systems/
              summary_features: "Nodegrid OS, Zero Touch Provisioning, Serial Console Server, NetOps Automation, Secure Access Service Edge (SASE)"

          - name: Pliant
            project: saas
            description: Pliant [an IBM company] is a low-code automation platform that enables teams to quickly build, deploy, and scale workflows across IT operations, DevOps, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) functions. It provides a unified interface for automating complex processes across diverse technology stacks.
            homepage_url: https://pliant.io/
            logo: pliant.png
            crunchbase: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/pliant
            extra:
              twitter: https://twitter.com/pliant_io
              summary_use_case: "Low-code IT automation, workflow orchestration, API integration, and process automation for IT operations, DevOps, and SRE teams"
              summary_business_use_case: "Accelerates digital transformation by enabling rapid automation of complex IT processes, reducing manual errors, and improving operational efficiency"
              summary_integration: "Supports integration with various IT systems, cloud platforms, and DevOps tools through pre-built actions and custom API integrations"
              summary_tags: "low-code automation, IT operations, DevOps, SRE, workflow orchestration, API integration"
              summary_personas: "IT Operations Managers, DevOps Engineers, Site Reliability Engineers, Automation Specialists"
              summary_release_rate: "Continuous updates (SaaS model)"
              blog_url: https://pliant.io/blog/
              documentation_url: https://docs.pliant.io/
              linkedin_url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pliant-io/
              summary_features: "Visual Workflow Builder, Pre-built Action Library, Custom API Integration, Role-Based Access Control, Audit Trails and Reporting"

          - name: Itential
            project: enterprise
            description: Itential is an enterprise-grade network automation platform that enables network engineers and IT teams to automate complex network operations across multi-domain and multi-vendor environments. It provides low-code automation capabilities, pre-built network automations, and integrations with various network systems and IT tools.
            homepage_url: https://www.itential.com/
            logo: itential.png
            crunchbase: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/itential
            extra:
              twitter: https://twitter.com/Itential
              summary_use_case: "Network automation, configuration management, network orchestration, and lifecycle management across multi-domain and multi-vendor environments"
              summary_business_use_case: "Accelerates network automation initiatives, reduces operational complexity, and improves network agility and reliability through low-code automation and pre-built network automations"
              summary_integration: "Integrates with various network controllers, orchestrators, SDN platforms, cloud services, and IT service management tools"
              summary_tags: "network automation, low-code, multi-domain, multi-vendor, network orchestration, configuration management"
              summary_personas: "Network Engineers, NetOps Teams, DevOps Engineers, Network Architects"
              summary_release_rate: "Regular releases with enterprise support"
              blog_url: https://www.itential.com/blog/
              documentation_url: https://www.itential.com/resources/
              linkedin_url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/itential/
              youtube_url: https://www.youtube.com/c/Itential
              summary_features: "Low-Code Automation Builder, Pre-Built Network Automations, Multi-Domain Orchestration, Configuration Management, Network Intelligence and Analytics"

          - name: Spacelift
            project: saas
            description: Spacelift is a sophisticated SaaS-delivered infrastructure management platform that enables infrastructure automation through software development practices.
            homepage_url: https://spacelift.io/
            logo: spacelift.png
            extra:
              blog_url: https://spacelift.io/blog
              documentation_url: https://docs.spacelift.io/
              summary_use_case: "GitOps workflows, collaborative infrastructure management, compliance enforcement"
              summary_business_use_case: "Streamlines infrastructure provisioning, enhances collaboration, and ensures compliance in cloud environments"
              summary_integration: "Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, Ansible"
              summary_tags: "infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, GitOps, policy-as-code, compliance"
              summary_personas: "DevOps Engineers, Cloud Architects, Site Reliability Engineers"
              linkedin_url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/spacelift-io/
              twitter: https://twitter.com/spaceliftio

          - name: BackBox
            project: enterprise
            description: BackBox is an intelligent automation platform that helps organizations manage complex networks by automating critical tasks such as configuration backup, compliance checks, and network inventory management.
            homepage_url: https://backbox.com/
            logo: backbox.jpg
            crunchbase: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/backbox
            extra:
              summary_use_case: "Network configuration backup, compliance and vulnerability management, inventory management, and network automation"
              summary_business_use_case: "Improves network reliability, enhances security posture, and increases operational efficiency through automated network management and security tasks"
              summary_integration: "Supports over 180 vendors and integrates with various security and network management tools"
              summary_tags: "network automation, configuration management, compliance, security, multi-vendor"
              summary_personas: "Network Engineers, Security Analysts, IT Operations, Compliance Officers"
              summary_release_rate: "Regular releases for both on-premises and cloud versions"
              blog_url: https://backbox.com/blog/
              documentation_url: https://backbox.com/resources/
              linkedin_url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/backbox/
              summary_features: "Automated Configuration Backup, Compliance Management, Intelligent Network Automation, Dynamic Network Mapping, Custom Automation Builder"

          - name: Rundeck
            project: hybrid
            description: Rundeck is an open source automation service with a web console, command line tools, and API. It lets you easily run automation tasks across a set of nodes.
            homepage_url: https://www.rundeck.com/
            logo: rundeck.svg
            repo_url: https://github.com/rundeck/rundeck
            extra:
              blog_url: https://www.rundeck.com/blog
              documentation_url: https://docs.rundeck.com/
              summary_use_case: "Self-service operations, incident management automation, routine task automation"
              summary_business_use_case: "Simplifies and automates routine IT tasks, reduces manual errors, and improves operational efficiency"
              summary_integration: "Ansible, Terraform"
              summary_tags: "automation, orchestration, job scheduling, workflow management"

          - name: Puppet Enterprise
            project: enterprise
            description: Puppet Enterprise is a configuration management platform that allows you to deliver and operate consistently secure infrastructure at scale.
            homepage_url: https://puppet.com/products/puppet-enterprise/
            logo: puppet-enterprise.svg
            extra:
              documentation_url: https://puppet.com/docs/pe/latest/pe_user_guide.html
              blog_url: https://puppet.com/blog/
              summary_business_use_case: "Provides scalable, automated infrastructure management and compliance for enterprise environments"
              summary_use_case: "Infrastructure as code, compliance automation, patch management, and configuration management across diverse IT environments"
              summary_tags: "configuration management, infrastructure as code, compliance automation, enterprise IT"
              summary_release_rate: "Major releases approximately every 6 months"
              summary_integration: "Git, Jenkins, Docker, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud"
              summary_personas: "System Administrators, DevOps Engineers, IT Operations Managers, Security Compliance Officers"
              youtube_url: https://www.youtube.com/user/PuppetLabsInc
              linkedin_url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/puppet/
              twitter: https://twitter.com/puppetize

          - name: torero.dev
            project: free-restrictive
            description: Closed source with restrictive EULA, proprietary network automation tool to launch python and ansible playbooks, I have no idea who would want this.
            homepage_url: https://torero.dev
            logo: torero.png
            extra:
              summary_use_case: "I don't know... Launch python and ansible playbooks.... and have a gun to your head for 'free'?"
              # Claimed
              summary_release_rate: "Every 3 months"

          - name: StackStorm
            project: full-open-source
            description: StackStorm (aka "IFTTT for Ops") is event-driven automation for auto-remediation, incident responses, troubleshooting, deployments, and more for DevOps and SREs
            homepage_url: https://stackstorm.com/
            logo: stackstorm.jpg
            repo_url: https://github.com/StackStorm/st2
            extra:
              key_features: "Actions, Worfklow, Trigger, Sensor, Rules"
              use_cases: "Self-hosted workflow engine, event-driven automation"
              integration: "160 integration packs with 6000+ actions (see https://exchange.stackstorm.org), ChatOps"
              community: "Linux Foundation Project"

      - name: Software Libraries
        items:
          - name: Scrapli
            project: full-open-source
            description: Scrapli is a Python library focused on connecting to network devices (routers/switches/firewalls/etc.) via Telnet or SSH. It aims to be fast, flexible, and easy to use for both synchronous and asynchronous operations.
            homepage_url: https://github.com/carlmontanari/scrapli
            logo: scrapli.svg
            repo_url: https://github.com/carlmontanari/scrapli
            extra:
              documentation_url: https://carlmontanari.github.io/scrapli/
              summary_use_case: "Network device automation, configuration management, data retrieval from network devices"
              summary_tags: "network automation, SSH, Telnet, async, Python"
              summary_personas: "Network Engineers, DevOps Engineers, Network Automation Specialists"
              summary_features: "Sync and async support, structured data parsing, multiple transport options"

          - name: Netmiko
            project: full-open-source
            description: Netmiko is a multi-vendor library to simplify Paramiko SSH connections to network devices. It provides a unified API to connect to various network devices.
            homepage_url: https://github.com/ktbyers/netmiko
            logo: netmiko.png
            repo_url: https://github.com/ktbyers/netmiko
            extra:
              documentation_url: https://ktbyers.github.io/netmiko/
              summary_use_case: "Network device connection and configuration, multi-vendor support"
              summary_tags: "network automation, SSH, multi-vendor, Python"
              summary_personas: "Network Engineers, Network Automation Engineers"
              summary_features: "Multi-vendor support, simplified SSH connections, configuration management"

          - name: gNMIc
            project: full-open-source
            description: gNMIc is a gNMI-focused software suite that provides a CLI client, a Go API for gNMI and a streaming telemetry collector implementation.
            homepage_url: https://gnmic.openconfig.net/
            logo: gnmic.svg
            repo_url: https://github.com/openconfig/gnmic
            extra:
              documentation_url: https://gnmic.openconfig.net/
              summary_use_case: "gNMI-based network device management, telemetry collection"
              summary_tags: "gNMI, network automation, telemetry, Go"
              summary_personas: "Network Engineers, SREs, Network Automation Specialists"
              summary_features: "gNMI client, telemetry collection, configuration management"

          - name: PyEZ
            project: full-open-source
            description: Juniper PyEZ is a Python library for managing and automating Juniper devices. It provides a Pythonic interface to the NETCONF API and other management interfaces.
            homepage_url: https://www.juniper.net/documentation/product/en_US/junos-pyez
            logo: pyez.png
            repo_url: https://github.com/Juniper/py-junos-eznc
            extra:
              documentation_url: https://www.juniper.net/documentation/product/en_US/junos-pyez
              summary_use_case: "Juniper device automation, configuration management, operational state retrieval"
              summary_tags: "Juniper, network automation, NETCONF, Python"
              summary_personas: "Network Engineers, Juniper Specialists, Automation Engineers"
              summary_features: "NETCONF support, Juniper-specific optimizations, configuration management"
          
          - name: NTC Templates
            project: full-open-source
            description: Repository of TextFSM Templates for Network Devices, and Python wrapper for TextFSM's CliTable. TextFSM is a tool to help make parsing cli commands more manageable.
            homepage_url: https://github.com/networktocode/ntc-templates
            logo: ntc_templates.png
            repo_url: https://github.com/networktocode/ntc-templates
            extra:
              documentation_url: https://ntc-templates.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
              summary_use_case: "Parsing outputs from network devices"
              summary_tags: "TextFSM, multi-vendor, CLI, Python"
              summary_personas: "Network Engineers, Automation Engineers"
              summary_features: "Multi-vendor support, command output parsing"
          
          - name: TTP
            project: full-open-source
            description: Template Text Parser is a Python library for semi-structured text parsing using templates.
            homepage_url: https://github.com/dmulyalin/ttp
            logo: ttp.png
            repo_url: https://github.com/dmulyalin/ttp
            extra:
              documentation_url: https://ttp.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
              summary_use_case: "Parsing outputs from semi-structured text"
              summary_tags: "screen-scraping, parsing, Python, template"
              summary_personas: "Network Engineers, Automation Engineers"
              summary_features: "Multi-vendor support, command output parsing"