Tuesday, February 3, 2015

7 Amazing Tools To Embrace DevOps During Software Development

There was a time when developers and operations used to have a hate-hate relationship. Production code update was never done benefiting developers and they also used to suffer a lot in hands of administrators who are in charge of running the servers smoothly. Since DevOps has arrived on the board, the battleground has been silent as the DevOps tools have bridged the gaps at large. Here are seven best DevOps tools which are promising enough to make life easier for developers as well as sysadmins:




1. Atlas: 

This tool has been introduced recently to provide visibility into infrastructure like servers, containers and virtual machines. Atlas is built on open source projects like Vagrant, Packer, Serf, Consul and Terraform and this tool enables DevOps across cloud platforms like AWS, Google Compute Engine, Azure and OpenStack. Atlas tool is getting considered at companies to become a part of customer engagement platform.

2. Chef: 

This is a systems and cloud infrastructure framework for automation of building, deploying and management of infrastructure. The tool uses short scripts called 'recipes'. But if its pluggable configuration modules are used, then only the real power of the tool can be realised. Chef is mostly used by Facebook and recently the internal Chef framework at Facebook has been open sourced too. The University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School also uses Chef tool. It opens the door for more collaboration and efficiency across organisations.

3. Docker: 

Docker is used to bring portability to applications through its popular containerisation technology. Though this tool, applications can run in self-contained units which can be shifted across platforms. A Docker Engine is also present which is actually a lightweight runtime and packaging tool and Docker Hub is the cloud service used for application sharing and workflow automation.

4. Puppet: 

Puppet Enterprise offers data center orchestration as it automates configuration and management of machines and software. Puppet has recently released its Version 3.7 which features Puppet Apps, applications for IT automation and so on. An open source version of Puppet is also available. The open source version is being used by Stanford University which is helpful in bridging the gap between software development and system administration teams. Now developers are getting more involved with system administration while sysadmins are also more involved with software development these days, enabling quicker development of applications.

5. SaltStack: 

It provides system management for data automation, server provisioning, cloud building and application configuration. SaltStack is being used to automate the environment where virtual machines are mostly relied upon for a production and staging environment. SaltStack is a common language to manage servers.

6. ScriptRock GuardRail: 

This tool is effectively used for configuration monitoring and it also helps users to ensure that the production environment is similar to QA, test and dev environments. This tool is effective in configuration drifting and it can also create human-readable tests.

7. Splunk: 

This tool can detect and fix issues in real time across the application lifecycle. Developers can visualise data from production environments even without any access to production machines. With Splunk, users can take help from DevOps processes like integration and deployment. Splunk is widely used which can change the operations of the production systems.

Courtesy Java World

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