DevOps Tools

Planning Tools

Communication and collaboration are the essentials of the DevOps culture. Following Agile software development practices, the DevOps environment requires tools that empower sprint planning for release management features, iterations, and issue tracking. Continuous planning tool to consider: JIRA JIRA is a tool developed by Atlassian. It is used for issue tracking, bug tracking, and project management. JIRA is an Agile-friendly planning tool. It supports sprint planning with customizable Kanban and Scrum workflows. The JIRA dashboard consists of many useful features and functions which make handling of issues easy.

Other Continuous planning tools are:

• Rally
• Redmine
• Trac
• Asana
• Calrizen

Source Code Management Tools

In a DevOps world, Everything is treated as a code (configurations, code, etc.,) Source Code Management is used to keep track of any changes in code. It is also known as Version Control.

Popular source Code Management tools are:

• Git
• Subversion
• Github
• BitBucket
• CVS
• SVN
• Mercurial

Continuous Integration Tools

Continuous Integration is automated build scripts to detect changes in Source Code Management (SCM) like Github, Git Popular Continuous Integration tools are:

• Jenkins
• Travis
• TeamCity
• CircleCI
• Codeship
• GitLab CI
• Buddy
• Wrecker
• Semaphore
• Solano Labs
• AppVeyor
• Assertible
• Shippable
• NeverCode
• Bamboo

Building Tool

Build tools are known as software that automates the process of building an executable application from source code. The building process includes compiling, packaging the code into an executable form.

Other Continuous building tools are:

• Ant
• Gradle
• Maven
• Rake
• MSBuild
• Broccoli
• BuildMaster
• Finalbuilder
• Buildr
• CMake
• Visual Build

Repository Tools

Any Binary has to be deployed should be stored and versioned in a central location

Popular repository tools are:

• Nexus
• Artifactory
• Archiva
• Package Drone

Performance Testing / Test Automation Tools:

Popular Testing tools are:

• UFT
• Selenium
• Jmeter
• Appium
• Load runner
• HP UFT
• Junit
• SonarQube
• Cucumber
• Parasoft Environment Manager

Continuous Deployment

Deployment handles the application or software releases in an efficient way

Popular tools of Continuous deployment are:

• Octopus
• AWS CodeDeploy
• PDQ Deploy,
• Go
• uDeploy
• XL Deploy

DevOps release management tools are:

• XL Release
• Serena
• LaunchDarkly
• BMC release Process Management
• CA Nolio
• CA Release Automation

Continuous Monitoring/ Infrastructure Logging/ Visualization Tools

For any environment or application, logging and monitoring is must to avoid system failure

Popular tools for Monitoring are:

• ELK Stack
• Sensu
• Nagios
• Data Dog
• New Relic
• App Dynamics
• Zabbix
• Sumologic
• Splunk
• Big Panda
• Grafana
• PagerDuty
• DevOps Log Management are:
• Graylog
• Log sense
• Loggly
• Sumo logic

DevOps process supervisor tools are:

• God
• Monit
• Upstart
• Systemd

Containerization Tools

DevOps Container tools are:

• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Apache Mesos
• Cloud slang
• Containership
• Linux Containers
• Packer
• Rancher
• Solaris container
• Swarm
• DevOps Virtualization tools are:
• KVM
• Vagrant
• Virtual Box
• VMware
• Xen
• CA Service virtualization
• Delphix

Cloud Computing Tools

DevOps Cloud Computing Tools are:

• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Fabric
• Microsoft Azure
• Google Cloud Platform
• Open Stack
• Rackspace
• Pivotal Cloud Foundry
• CenturyLink ElasticBox

Security Tools:

DevOps security Tools are:

• Arachni
• Brakeman
• Code Climate
• CyberArk
• Fortify
• Nmap
• Sneaker
• SecureAssist
• Vault

DevOps for Data Analytics

DevOps data and Business intelligence management tools are:

• Datadog
• Datical
• Flyway
• Kibana
• Tableau
• Liquibase
• Idera
• jKool

Feedback Tools

DevOps feedback tools are:

• GetFeedback
• Hipchat
• Jira Service Desk
• Slack
• SurveyMonkey
• Team Foundation Server
• ServiceNow

Popular tools of Infrastructure as code are:

• Terraform
• Ansible
• Chef
• Puppet
• Saltstack