20 Tools to Implement Best Practices for DevOps
In the IT ecosystem, there is more pressure than ever to be agile, without compromising with the security and reliability. For a consistent product development cycle, people, processes, and tools need to be streamlined effectively. This is where DevOps come into picture, addressing to the stumbling blocks of continuous integration, testing, and deployment in the software development cycle.
For automating various tasks involved in development cycle, there are various tools that aids the team DevOps. Here, we discuss a few of them, categorized according to every phase of development.
For Development
1. Git
Git is a source code management platform. Developers can make the most of this version control system for software development. However, it can be used to keep a record of changes done to any set of files. It aims at maintaining data integrity and works for both distributed and non-linear workflows.
2. PERFORCE
Perforce can aid in efficient development by providing a set of solutions, which includes version control, developer collaboration, Agile project management, repository management, audit and compliance and more.
For Testing
3. Jenkins
Jenkins is an open-source automation server for Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) of a project. This DevOps tool offers hundreds of plugins to the DevOps specialists, enabling them to build, deploy, and automate a number of tasks in a project. It can be easily setup and configured using the web interface and is available with packages for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux-like Operating Systems. With Jenkins, the DevOps team can easily distribute the work across multiple machines, can help in more than one build, enables test and deployment across multiple platforms possible and fast.
4. Maven
Maven is a build lifecycle framework for developers. It enable the developer’s team to automate the project’s build infrastructure by using a standard directory layout. It also includes a default build lifecycle. With this all-in-one DevOps tool, developers can create reports, heck, build, and testing while automation setup.
5. Gradle
Gradle enables to build, automate, and deliver the product, faster. For mobile app development to microservices, this build tool will open ways for both startups and enterprises to speed up product development. With Maven, you can write in Java, C++, Python, and many other languages that you feel comfortable with.
For Deployment
6. Capistrano
Capistrano is an open-source, remote server automation tool. Written in Ruby and supported to Linux, MacOS X, and OpenBSD, this tool allows running scripts on multiple servers and is primarily used for deploying web applications. It automates the making of new version of an app that’s available on more than one web servers, which may include tasks like changes in databases.
Team Foundation Server (TFS) offers a set of development tools that can be integrated with Eclipse, Xcode, Visual Studio or any other IDE/editor of a developer’s choice. It provides a platform for cross-functional teams to work upon software development project of any scale. It includes version control systems, tools for Agile teams (Kanban, Scrum, Dashboard), tools for Continuous Integration (build, package, test, release, repeat), option to include custom tool or third party service to TFS etc. TFS by Microsoft have its support for both web and mobile languages like PHP, C++, Java, Python, Swift, Go, and many more.
For Monitoring
8. Nagios
Nagios is a an open-source tool for monitoring networks, systems, and even infrastructure. It provides services to monitor the servers, switches, applications and pass an alert if anything goes wrong. While it’s originally made to run on Linux, you can use it on Unix Variants as well. Alongside this, the Nagios users can also design and develop their own service checks, according to the set of requirements they have by using languages luke Ruby, Perl, C++, C#, Shell Scripts etc.
9. New Relic
Mobile apps, browsers, infrastructure. This tool can help you to monitor and optimize all of these. You can view and analyze the data, have actionable insights in real-time (for operations, development, and management teams), with no additional hardware cost as the tools is delivered in SAAS model.
10. Ganglia
Ganglia is a distributed monitoring system, specially meant for high performance computing systems like Grids and Clusters. With Ganglia, you can ether view live or recorded stats that includes metrics like network utilization by nodes, average CPU load etc.
11. Sensu
A DevOps team can make the most of this monitoring tool as it allow to keep tabs on servers, services, state of an application, the KPIs for seamless functionality of a business, and more. The tool notifies about any unusual behaviour of servers (VMware, AWS, bare metal), Network Devices (Routers, Switches, SANs), Services (Databases, Warehouses), Containers (Docker, RKT, LXC), Remote resources (external APIs) etc.
For Configuration Management
12. Puppet Labs
Puppet is a software configuration management tool. It’s an open-source DevOps tool that runs on Windows and Unix-like systems. It offer solutions for simplified development to production cycle, automated testing for continuous delivery, configurations that can be onced defined and used on multiple physical environments (physical, cloud, virtual) etc.
13. Docker
Docker offers a rescue system to the developers from ‘it works on my machine’ problem by doing away with the portability and predictability during the development, testing, and deployment phase. This DevOps tool isolate the apps in container to minimize conflicts and improve the security system.
14. CF Engine
This open source (as well as a commercial) solution that provides automated configuration and maintenance of systems like servers, desktops, embedded networked devices, tablets, smartphones etc. This DevOps tool for configuration management helps in seamless IT infrastructure automation, continuous operations, and at the same time maintains service levels and compliance.
For Log Management
15. GrayLog
This DevOps tool is a syslog manager that helps the team to collect, index, and analyze the syslog, all at one space. It enable the developers to set parsing for their messages, route the messages to their workstation for easy debugging etc.
16. Loggly
Loggly is a cloud based, log management and analytics service provider. It integrates into the continuous deployment practices, ultimately reducing the Mean Time to Repair, augment innovation, and ascertain that the resources are used for development.
For Security
17. Tripwire
DevOps team can make the most of this security and data integrity tool to monitor and then alert them about any modification or intrusion being done to the files, on a number of systems. Primarily, it is a host based intrusion detection system that detects the intrusion on the file system objects. It scans the entire file system and then record the information about every file in the database. This is done with the help of cryptographic hash.
18. Threat Stack
Threat Stack is a cloud security management tool that detects unusual behaviour across an infrastructure. This tool for DevOps team will pass an alert when there is anything risky, unusual, or malicious. With this SAAS base security model, the development team can integrate safety models that the Operations team are already using.
Collaboration Platforms
19. Slack
Slack is a tool for collaborative working of a team. For the DevOps team to work on one or multiple projects with seamless connection, this tool has got a number of tools and services. You can have chat rooms for discussions on a certain topic, direct messaging service, searchable content like files, people, conversations etc. To make the experience more user friendly, Slack can be integrated with third party tools, services, and communities like Google Drive, GitHub, Zendesk, Dropbox, Trello, and many others.
20. Trello
Trello is another project management application that enable team to collaborate. You can create projects, update status, have conversations, and more. It has got an alive and extremely simple interface that helps the developers to stay connected and streamline a project functionality.
Did we miss some amazing tools for the DevOps team here? If you know other tools that can be of help to the DevOps team, then share them in the comments below.
Originally published at appdevelopment.daffodilsw.com.
