sysadmin — independent software & tools

8 independent sysadmin listings the big search engines bury.

• portside

  github · Free · by mcglothi

  A fast, beautiful, native macOS workbench for people who live on SSH.

• portato

  github · Free · by portuber

  SSH port-forwarding manager with a TUI — toggle local, remote and SOCKS5 tunnels from one screen. Single Go binary, background daemon, autostart.

• relay-shell

  github · Free · by rmednitzer

  Model Context Protocol server for full shell and SSH fleet operation, with audit, tiered authority, and resource bounds

• oss-stack

  github · Free · by runtechx

  oss-stack is a collection of scripts, blocklists, and labs you can run to self-host your own professional IT infrastructure.

• webterm

  github · Free · by sm26449

  Self-hosted web terminal & bastion for your whole fleet. Sessions live in tmux on the host and survive everything above them — plus telnet/serial consoles, file transfer, port forwarding, session sharing and 2FA. xterm.js + FastAPI + a signed per-host agent.

• maniat1k.github.io

  github · Free · by maniat1k

  My digital workshop: DevOps, SysAdmin, PowerShell, automation and technical projects.

• shell-toolkit

  github · Free · by rebootless

  A collection of standalone Bash utilities and reusable workflows for Debian- and Ubuntu-based systems. Focused on system administration and automation.

• susshi

  github · Free · by yatoub

  Terminal SSH manager with YAML inventories, jump hosts, Wallix bastion, tunnels and SCP — written in Rust