DevOps / Systems Engineering Tools

These are some of the tools which I have used or considered for my projects as DevOps practitioner / SRE implementer

CI Tools

• TeamCity CI server. open source, free 3 agent & 100 Build Configs
• BuildKite Simpler then old school CI Servers.
• TravisCI
• CircleCI
• Jenkins Would not use this if absolute necessary!
• Bamboo

Quality

• https://www.sonarqube.org Source Code scanning (continuous inspection)

CD Tools

• CodeDeploy Deployment on AWS Cloud
• Spinnaker Continuous Delivery for Enterprise (same as CodeDeploy)

Management

• https://www.scalr.com Enterprise CMP (Cloud Management Platform)
• kops Management of Kubernetes itself

Monitoring

• https://www.zabbix.com Monitoring tool & SLA tracking
• Packer Build Automated Machine Images
• Dynatrace
• Aplas Maps software applications on Map like canvas
• Graphite Dashboard (visualisation) tool

Infra as a Code

• Terraform create and maintain infrastructure as a code. (multi-cloud, external CDN & DNS)
• AWS CDK Programming language based CloudFormation abstraction

Practices

DevOps is a set of practices and/or mindset which demands more than tools and their automated usage. Some of the practices which I follow or plan to follow is below:

• Versioning how to version software releases
• TechRadar A library that generates an interactive radar, inspired by http://thoughtworks.com/radar/
• CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation)’s trail map for companies starting on Cloud

BigData

• Presto Distributed SQL Query Engine for Big Data
• Apache Avro Apache Avro™ is a data serialization system

Data format

• Apache Parquet
• YML
• KDL

Microservices

• Docker
• Kubernetes
• https://istio.io
• Netflix’s Eureka Service registry/discovery
• Linkerd Ultralight service mesh for Kubernetes and beyond

Feature Toggle:

• Unleash
• https://launchdarkly.com

Secrets Management:

• SOPS Created by Mozilla, uses AWS KMS for the master key to encrypt files based on yml configurations
• Hashicorp Vault
• Shush AWS KMS based encryption and command shim

Performance Measure

• GTmetrix
• Pingdom
• https://www.webpagetest.org/

Documentation

• mermaid Generation of diagram and flowchart from text in a similar manner as markdown
• Diagram As Code Python based tool to create cloud diagrams

Specialised Tools

• ProxySQL layer 7 SQL-aware load balancer for MySQL
• Reliability Calculator a simple calculator which shows the rating of Reliability of a System
• DevOps Calculator Google Cloud based calculator which is based on DORA

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