Top 10 tools for DevOps success
DevOps is a set of practices which combines software development and IT operations with the aim to shorten the system development life cycle. It is an organization approach which enables faster development of applications and easier maintenance of existing deployments. The approach promotes shorter, more controllable iterations, automations and new tools.
DevOps is not just a technology, it covers everything from organization culture, processes and tools. It is a cultural change that allows the organization to break down the barrier between the development team and operations teams. DevOps includes continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD), real-time monitoring, incident response systems and collaboration platforms.
DevOps is the catalyst to start this cultural shift and bring the whole IT team together in the agile mindset to improve the deployment frequency, allowing a faster time to market, a lower failure rate of new releases, shortened lead team and faster mean time recovery.
Despite DevOps being a cultural shift for an organization, the approach requires teams to adopt and use certain tools which would help the team to automate and enhance their processes.
Tools for DevOps:
GIT
GIT is a version control system which allows you to track changes in your file. Through this tool, the work could be easily coordinated amongst the team members. It is a free-open source tool, features branch workflow, allows distributed development, supports pull request and enables faster release cycle
Jenkins
Jenkins is a tool from developers for developers. It is a continuous integration server written in Java. Teams can use it for testing and reporting changes in near real time. Being a developer, it will help them to find and solve bugs in codes rapidly and automate the testing of their build.
It is a free- open source tool which integrates all your DevOps stages with the help of around 1000 plugins, scripts your pipeline having one or more build jobs into a single workflow. It also provides multiple ways of communication: web based GUI, CLI and Rest API.
Selenium
Selenium is a portable software testing framework for web applications. It provides the team with an easy interface for developing automated tests. It is a free-open source tool which helps in creating robust, browser based regression automation suites and tests, writing test scripts in multiple languages like Java, Python, C#, Ruby, Perl, Php, JavaScript, supports multiple platform for testing like iOS and android and easy to build a keyword driven framework for a web driver.
Docker
Docker is a lightweight tool which uses containers to package up an application with all the requirements and dependencies before shipping the complete container as one package. User docker container with any language, ship the container wherever you want, be it QA, your team or even the cloud, scale up to 1000’s node, update with zero downtime.
Puppet
Puppet is an open-source configuration management tool to deploy, configure and manage your servers. It is used to automate the method of inspecting, delivering and operating your software across the entire lifecycle with platform independency. It is based on master-slave architecture and long commercial track record
Chef
Chef is a powerful configuration management automation tool used to manage your data, attributes, roles, environments and cookbooks. It helps to transform the infrastructure to code. It is an Open-source configuration management tool which supports multiple platforms like AIX, RHEL/CentOS, FreeBSD and is easy to integrate with cloud-based platforms, active, smart and fast-growing community support.
Ansible
Ansible is an open-source tool which helps in managing your data, attributes, roles, environments and cookbooks. It helps in providing one of the simplest ways to automate your apps and IT infrastructures such as network configuration, cloud deployments and creation of development environments. It supports push configuration, based on master-slave architecture, completely agentless and simple syntax written YAML.
Nagios
Nagios is a powerful monitoring system which enables you and your organization to identify and resolve IT infrastructure problems before they affect critical business processes. It monitors and troubleshoot server performance issues, plans infrastructure upgrades before outdated systems cause failures and automatically fix problems when detected.
ELK Stack
ELK Stack is a combination of three powerful, open source tools: Elasticsearch, Log stash and Kibana used to collect insights out of your logs or data. It is a lightweight open source tool with multiple plugins, which is easy to deploy, perform search in near-real time, collects and analyzes logs from an excel file to a database or server, active and supportive discussion forum.
Splunk
Splunk is a software platform to search, analyze and visualize the machine-generated data for logs gathered from the websites, applications, sensors, devices etc which make up your IT infrastructure and business. It stores, searches, analyzes and visualizes the machine-generated data, ingests data in multiple file formats, creates knowledge objects for operational intelligence and monitors business metrics to get log insights.