Part 16 - Building Robust Enterprise Systems: An Introduction to Essential Technologies (DevOps Tools
Written by : Vimal Panchal
In our previous installments, we explored front-end, back-end, API, database technologies, and design tools, and how they all play a critical role in enterprise software development. Now, let's delve into another vital part of the software development process—DevOps
What is DevOps Tools ?
DevOps is the combination of cultural philosophies, practices, and tools that increases an organization’s ability to deliver applications and services at high velocity. It unifies software development (Dev) and software operation (Ops), aiming to shorten the system's development life cycle and provide continuous delivery with high software quality.
Here are twelve popular DevOps tools that enterprises often employ:
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JenkinsAn open-source automation server, Jenkins provides hundreds of plugins to support building, deploying, and automating any project.
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Docker
Docker is an open-source platform that automates the deployment, scaling, and management of applications. It uses containerization technology to bundle an app and its dependencies into a single object.
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Kubernetes
Kubernetes is an open-source platform designed to automate deploying, scaling, and operating application containers. It works perfectly with Docker.
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Ansible
Ansible is an open-source software provisioning, configuration management, and application-deployment tool.
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Git
Git is a free and open-source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
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Puppet
Puppet is an open-source software configuration management and deployment tool. It's most widely used on Linux and Windows to pull the strings on multiple application servers at once.
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Chef
Chef, like Puppet, is another useful configuration management tool used for streamlining the task of configuring and maintaining a company's servers.
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Nagios
Nagios is a powerful monitoring system that enables organizations to identify and resolve IT infrastructure problems before they affect critical business processes.
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ELK Stack
ELK Stack is a collection of three open-source products: Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana. They are used collectively for log parsing, data analysis, and visualization.
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Grafana
Grafana is a multi-platform open-source analytics and interactive visualization web application. It offers tools to turn your time-series database (TSDB) data into beautiful graphs and visualizations.
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Travis CI
Travis CI is a hosted continuous integration service used to build and test software projects hosted at GitHub and Bitbucket.
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Prometheus
Prometheus is an open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit originally built at SoundCloud. It is now a standalone open source project maintained independently of any company.
DevOps has fundamentally changed the way we look at software development by encouraging a culture of increased collaboration, early error detection, and smoother and quicker delivery of value. These tools are key enablers in that journey
In our next article, we will be delving into Monitoring and Logging tools. Stay tuned!
