DevOps / Systems Engineering Tools

Originally posted at iHusyn

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

CI Tools

• TeamCity Open source, free 3 agent & 100 Build Configs
• BuildKite Simpler then old school CI Servers. UI as SaaS. Agents are loosly coupled
• TravisCI / CircleCI
• Bamboo Atlassian product. Gels well with Bitbucket and JIRA
• Jenkins Would not use this if absolute necessary!

CD Tools

• CodeDeploy Deployment on AWS Cloud
• Spinnaker Continuous Delivery for Enterprise (same as CodeDeploy). Fits in K8s eco system

(Code) Quality

• SonarQube Source Code scanning (Continuous Inspection)
• VeraCode Focused on security
• SNYK

Monitoring

• Aplas Maps software applications on Map like canvas
• Graphite Dashboard (visualisation) tool
• Dynatrace
• AppDynamics

Infrastructure as 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/ It’s more of a communication tool in an organisation.
• 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
• Istio
• EurekaNetflix’s Service registry/discovery
• Linkerd Ultralight service mesh for Kubernetes and beyond

Feature Toggle

• Unleash
• Launch Darkly

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
• WebPageTest

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