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Enterprise-Grade Monitoring - Zero CompromisesManaging a large, distributed IT environment demands more than basic monitoring. PRTG provides a unified view of your entire infrastructure - across sites, clouds, and hybrid setups. Advanced analytics, customizable dashboards, and granular access controls empower your team to detect issues early and respond fast. Automate reporting, ensure compliance, and scale effortlessly as your network grows. With PRTG, you get reliability, flexibility, and the insights you need to keep your business running at peak performance.
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Build Securely on Azure with Proven FrameworksMoving to the cloud brings new challenges. How can you manage a larger attack surface while ensuring great network performance? Turn to Fortinet’s Tested Reference Architectures, blueprints for designing and securing cloud environments built by cybersecurity experts. Learn more and explore use cases in this white paper.
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WindTerm
A professional cross-platform SSH/Sftp/Shell/Telnet/Serial terminal
A Quicker and better SSH/Telnet/Serial/Shell/Sftp client for DevOps. WindTerm is a partial open source project, and the source will be gradually opened. Open source code includes, but is not limited to, the classes that can be used independently, such as functional, algorithms, GUI widgets, etc., as well as functional libraries, such as networks, protocols, etc., as well as all types that require open source according to the license. SSH v2, Telnet, Raw TCP, Serial, Shell protocols were implemented. Supports SSH auto-execution when the session is authenticated. Integrated local file manager, supports the move to, copy to, copy from, remove, rename, make new file/directory and so on. Supports Windows Cmd, PowerShell and Cmd, PowerShell as administrator. Supports Linux bash, zsh, PowerShell core, and so on. Supports MacOS bash, zsh, PowerShell core, and so on. -
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Git Credential Manager
Secure, cross-platform Git credential storage with authentication
Git Credential Manager (GCM) is a secure Git credential helper built on .NET that runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux. It aims to provide a consistent and secure authentication experience, including multi-factor auth, to every major source control hosting service and platform. GCM supports (in alphabetical order) Azure DevOps, Azure DevOps Server (formerly Team Foundation Server), Bitbucket, GitHub, and GitLab. Compare to Git's built-in credential helpers (Windows: wincred, macOS: osxkeychain, Linux: gnome-keyring/libsecret), which provide single-factor authentication support for username/password only. GCM replaces both the .NET Framework-based Git Credential Manager for Windows and the Java-based Git Credential Manager for Mac and Linux. Git Credential Manager is currently available for Windows, macOS, and Linux*. GCM only works with HTTP(S) remotes; you can still use Git with SSH. -
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SonarQube
Continuous inspection
SonarQube empowers all developers to write cleaner and safer code. Thousands of automated Static Code Analysis rules, protecting your app on multiple fronts, and guiding your team. Catch tricky bugs to prevent undefined behavior from impacting end-users. Fix vulnerabilities that compromise your app, and learn AppSec along the way with Security Hotspots. Make sure your codebase is clean and maintainable, to increase developer velocity! We embrace progress - whether it's multi-language applications, teams composed of different backgrounds or a workflow that's a mix of modern and legacy, SonarQube has you covered. SonarQube fits with your existing tools and pro-actively raises a hand when the quality or security of your codebase is at risk. SonarQube can analyse branches of your repo, and notify you directly in your Pull Requests! -
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SaltStack
Automate the management and configuration of any infrastructure
Software to automate the management and configuration of any infrastructure or application at scale. The Salt Project is an approach to infrastructure management built on a dynamic communication bus. Salt can be used for data-driven orchestration, remote execution for any infrastructure, configuration management for any app stack, and much more. Running commands on remote systems is the core function of Salt. Salt can execute commands across thousands of systems in seconds. Salt is built around an event infrastructure that can drive reactive provisioning, configuration, and management across all systems in your infrastructure. Salt contains a robust and flexible configuration management framework that allows effortless, simultaneous configuration of tens of thousands of systems. Learn about the fundamental components and concepts that you need to understand to use Salt. -
The All-in-One Commerce Platform for Businesses - ShopifyShopify is a leading all-in-one commerce platform that enables businesses to start, build, and grow their online and physical stores. It offers tools to create customized websites, manage inventory, process payments, and sell across multiple channels including online, in-person, wholesale, and global markets. The platform includes integrated marketing tools, analytics, and customer engagement features to help merchants reach and retain customers. Shopify supports thousands of third-party apps and offers developer-friendly APIs for custom solutions. With world-class checkout technology, Shopify powers over 150 million high-intent shoppers worldwide. Its reliable, scalable infrastructure ensures fast performance and seamless operations at any business size.
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Consul
Service networking solution to connect applications across any cloud
Automate network configurations, discover services, and enable secure connectivity across any cloud or runtime. Quickly deploy Consul on Kubernetes leveraging Helm. Automatically inject sidecars for Kubernetes resources. Federate multiple clusters into a single service mesh. Deploy service mesh within any runtime or infrastructure - Bare Metal, Virtual Machines, and Kubernetes clusters, across any cloud. Resolve discovered services through integrated DNS. Automate 3rd party load balancers (F5, NGINX, HAProxy). Eliminate manual configuration of network devices. Secure services running in any environment leveraging intention based policies and automatic mTLS encryption between service mesh resources. Consul enables detecting the deployment of new services, changes to existing ones, and provides real time agent health to reduce downtime. Consul offers support for and integrations with many popular DevOps and Networking tools. -
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Gardener
Kubernetes-native system managing the full lifecycle of Kubernetes
Kubernetes-native system managing the full lifecycle of conformant Kubernetes clusters as a service on Alicloud, AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenStack, EquinixMetal, vSphere, MetalStack, and Kubevirt with minimal TCO. Kubernetes is a cloud-native enabler built around the principles of a resilient, manageable, observable, highly automated, loosely coupled system. Gardener is a standard Kubernetes extension and adheres to the same concepts by design. The Gardener project is committed to fostering an open community of collaborators and adopters. We aim to deliver a standard solution that meets the needs of our entire community and ecosystem. Gardener was born as a solution for actual and common problems such as control on the Kubernetes stack, minimizing the TCO, infrastructures pervasiveness, operating in restricted/regulated environments or bare metal, at a massive scale. -
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Gogs
A painless self-hosted Git service
Gogs is a simple, stable, self-hosted Git service that is easy to install and setup. All you have to do is run the binary on any platform that Go supports: Linux, macOS and Windows. You may also install from source, from packages, or ship with Docker or Vagrant. Gogs is very lightweight with minimal hardware requirements, running on Raspberry Pi and even on NAS devices. Gogs offers plenty of great features, including various access repositories, repository and organization webhooks, repository Git hooks, repository management and so much more. It also offers software, service and product support for various areas such as project management (Kanboard, Taiga), DevOps (Fabric8) and team communication (BearyChat). -
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Devtron
Tool integration platform for Kubernetes
Devtron deeply integrates with products across the lifecycle of microservices,i.e., CI, CD, security, cost, debugging, and observability via an intuitive web interface. Devtron is designed to be modular, and its functionality can be easily extended with the help of integrations. Devtron CI/CD with GitOps integration is used to automate the builds and deployments and enables the software development teams to focus on meeting the business requirements, code quality, and security. Devtron leverages Kubernetes auto-scaling and centralized caching to give you unlimited cost-efficient CI workers. Supports pre-CI and post-CI integrations for code quality monitoring. Provides deployment metrics like; deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, and mean-time recovery. Seamlessly integrates with Grafana for continuous application metrics like CPU and memory usage, status code, throughput, and latency on the dashboard. -
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Porter
Kubernetes powered PaaS that runs in your own cloud
Porter is a fully-managed PaaS that lets teams automate DevOps. Deploy and manage apps within AWS, GCP, DO, and more. Porter manages and scales services in your existing cloud so you can focus on building products. Deploy in seconds from a Git repo or Docker registry. Porter simplifies service management while still offering the flexibility of a fully-featured DevOps platform when you need it. Use your existing AWS, GCP, or DO cloud as a hosting backend. They host your apps, Porter manages them. Automate your cloud management and focus on what matters. A traditional PaaS like Heroku is great for minimizing unnecessary DevOps work but doesn't offer enough flexibility as your applications grow. Custom network rules, resource constraints, and cost are common reasons developers move their applications off Heroku beyond a certain scale. Porter brings the simplicity of a traditional PaaS to your own cloud provider while preserving the configurability of Kubernetes. -
Powerful Website Security | Continuous Web Threat PlatformReflectiz is a comprehensive web exposure management platform that helps organizations proactively identify, monitor, and mitigate security, privacy, and compliance risks across their online environments. Designed to address the growing complexity of modern websites, Reflectiz provides full visibility and control over first, third, and even fourth-party components, such as scripts, trackers, and open-source libraries that often evade traditional security tools.
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Atlantis
Terraform Pull Request Automation
Bring the benefits of code review to your operations workflow. Catch errors in the Terraform plan output before it's applied. Ensure that you apply changes before merging to main. Put the Dev back into DevOps. Empower your developers to write Terraform. Safely. Developers can submit Terraform pull requests without needing credentials. Operators can require approvals prior to allowing an apply. Instant Audit Logs And Compliance. Pass audits without compromising your workflow. Each pull request now holds a detailed log of what infrastructure changes were made and when; along with who made the change and who approved it. Atlantis can be configured to require approvals on every production change. Used by one of the world's top companies to manage over 600 Terraform repos with 300 developers. -
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BDFramework
Simple and powerful Unity3d game workflow!
Simple and powerful Unity3d game workflow! Simple, efficient and highly industrialized commercial-grade unity3d workflow. The design concept of BDFramework is always: industrialization, assembly line, and specialization! Always be committed to creating an efficient commercial game workflow. Most of the functional development of BDFramework revolves around a whole workflow and is released in the form of Pipeline. It is also the same for the use of third-party libraries For in-depth customization of the Pipeline, a lot of Editor codes are often written for some user experience optimization. BDFramework doesn’t have any cool-looking functions. Persistence will lead to the emergence of this framework. For some special reasons, only the implementation of some game infrastructure solutions Pipeline will be released, and there will be no solution to specific business logic. program, so the whole set of workflow is more like a set of game development scaffolding. -
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Boost Note
Boost Note is a document driven project management tool
Boost Note is a document-driven project management tool that maximizes remote DevOps team velocity. Write overviews of systems including concepts, terminology definitions and descriptions of how these concepts work together. Having a 'living document' to help drive dialogue and exchange of ideas through collaboration helps this process significantly. Organize your dev team's sprint backlog and visualize them with status, assignees, reviewers, due date and everything you need. Reduce repeated progress updates in the company chat and standup meetings. It’s time to aggregate your knowledge in a single place. Build a team-wide knowledge management system to solve the information silos. Maximize the developer team's velocity with a document-centric workflow. Collaborate with your teammates in a doc with Boost Note's real-time editing. Boost Note's editor makes it easy to write a tech spec with Charts.js, Mermaid, Latex, PlantUML and so on. -
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Git Credential Manager for Windows
Secure Git credential storage for Windows for Visual Studio
Git Credential Manager for Windows is no longer being maintained. The cross-platform Git Credential Manager Core (GCM Core) is the official replacement. GCM Core is included as an optional component of Git for Windows 2.28 and will be made the default credential helper as of Git for Windows 2.29. GitHub will disable password-based authentication on APIs Git Credential Manager for Windows uses to create tokens. As a result, GCM for Windows will no longer be able to create new access tokens for GitHub. Git Credential Manager Core (GCM Core) supports OAuth-based authentication with GitHub and is the replacement for GCM for Windows. The Git Credential Manager for Windows (GCM) provides secure Git credential storage for Windows. It's the successor to the Windows Credential Store for Git (git-credential-winstore), which is no longer maintained. Compared to Git's built-in credential storage for Windows (wincred). -
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OTOMI
Self-hosted DevOps Platform for Kubernetes
Otomi is an open source self-hosted PaaS to run on top of any Kubernetes cluster and is placed in the CNCF landscape under the PaaS/Container Service section. A PaaS attempts to connect many of the technologies found in the CNCF landscape in a way to provide direct value. Deploy containerized apps with a few click without writing any K8s YAML manifests. Get access to logs and metrics of deployed apps. Store charts and images in a private registry. Build and run custom CI pipelines. Enable declarative end-to-end app lifecycle management. Configure ingress for apps with a single click. Manage your own secrets. Onboard development teams on shared clusters in a comprehensive multi-tenant setup. Get all the required observability tools in an integrated way. Ensure governance with security policies. Implement zero-trust networking with east-west and north-south network control within K8s. Provide self-service features to development teams. -
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Rancher UI
Rancher UI
Rancher is a complete software stack for teams adopting containers. It addresses the operational and security challenges of managing multiple Kubernetes clusters across any infrastructure while providing DevOps teams with integrated tools for running containerized workloads. We highly suggest making customizations as an ember-cli addon rather than forking this repo, making a bunch of changes and then fighting conflicts to keep it up to date with upstream forever. ui-example-addon-machine is an example addon that adds a custom screen for a docker-machine driver. If there is no way for you to get to what you want to change from an addon, PRs to this repo that add generalized hooks so that you can are accepted. Rancher UI uses Ember CLI Pods for its project structure. We suggest reading the documentation if you have questions about the layout of the Rancher UI project. -
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RancherOS
Tiny Linux distro that runs the entire OS as Docker containers
RancherOS is the smallest, easiest way to run Docker in production. Every process in RancherOS is a container managed by Docker. This includes system services such as udev and syslog. Because it only includes the services necessary to run Docker, RancherOS is significantly smaller than most traditional operating systems. By removing unnecessary libraries and services, requirements for security patches and other maintenance are also reduced. This is possible because, with Docker, users typically package all necessary libraries into their containers. Another way in which RancherOS is designed specifically for running Docker is that it always runs the latest version of Docker. This allows users to take advantage of the latest Docker capabilities and bug fixes. Like other minimalist Linux distributions, RancherOS boots incredibly quickly. Starting Docker containers is nearly instant, similar to starting any other process. -
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Weave GitOps
Weave GitOps provides insights into your application deployments
Weave GitOps is a simple, open source developer platform for people who want cloud-native applications but who don't have Kubernetes expertise. Experience how easy it is to enable GitOps and run your apps in a cluster. Use Git to collaborate with team members making new deployments easy and secure. Start with what developers need to run apps, and then easily extend to define and run your own enterprise platform. Our vision is that all cloud-native applications should be easy for developers and that operations should be automated and secure. Weave GitOps is a highly extensible tool to achieve this by placing Kubernetes and GitOps at the core and building a platform around that. -
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Blue Whale Configuration Platform
Blue Whale smart cloud configuration platform
Has accumulated experience in supporting hundreds of Tencent businesses, compatible with various complex system architectures, born in operation and maintenance, and proficient in operation and maintenance. From configuration management to job execution, task scheduling and monitoring self-healing, and then through operation and maintenance big data analysis to assist operational decision-making, it covers the full-cycle assurance management of business operations in a comprehensive manner. The open PaaS has a powerful development framework and scheduling engine, as well as a complete operation and maintenance development training system, which helps the rapid transformation and upgrading of operation and maintenance. Through the Blue Whale intelligent cloud system, it can help enterprises quickly realize the automation of basic operation and maintenance services, thereby accelerating the transformation of DevOps, realizing a tool culture, and maximizing operational efficiency. -
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DevOps Bash Tools
800+ DevOps Bash Scripts - AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, APIs
Scripts for many popular DevOps technologies, see Inventory below for more details. Advanced configs for common tools like Git, vim, screen, tmux, PostgreSQL psql etc. CI configs for most major Continuous Integration products (see CI builds page) CI scripts for a drop-in framework of standard checks to run in all CI builds, CI detection, accounting for installation differences across CI environments, root vs user, virtualenvs etc. API scripts auto-handling authentication, tokens and other details to quickly query popular APIs with a few keystrokes just supplying the /path/endpoint. Advanced Bash environment - .bashrc + .bash.d/*.sh - aliases, functions, colouring, dynamic Git & shell behaviour enhancements, automatic pathing for installations and major languages like Python, Perl, Ruby, NodeJS, Golang across Linux distributions and Mac. See .bash.d/README.md. Installs the best systems packages. -
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Erda
An enterprise-grade Cloud-Native application platform for Kubernetes
Erda is an open-source platform created by Terminus to ensure the development of microservice applications. It provides DevOps, microservice governance, and multi-cloud management capabilities. The multi-cloud architecture based on Kubernetes and application-centric DevOps and microservice governance can make the development, operation, monitoring, and problem diagnosis of complex business applications simpler and more efficient. erda is the core repository that implements all the RESTful and gRPC interfaces of the backend services of Erda platform by multiple components in a microservice architecture. It is the graphical user portal of Erda platform built with React with the help of which users can work upon Erda platform very easily. It talks with erda backend services in RESTful APIs. -
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Rancher
Complete container management platform
From datacenter to cloud to edge, Rancher lets you deliver Kubernetes-as-a-Service. Rancher is a complete software stack for teams adopting containers. It addresses the operational and security challenges of managing multiple Kubernetes clusters, while providing DevOps teams with integrated tools for running containerized workloads. From datacenter to cloud to edge, Rancher's open source software lets you run Kubernetes everywhere. You don’t need to figure Kubernetes out all on your own. Rancher is open source software, with an enormous community of users. Managing Kubernetes installed in your local or remote development environment is so much easier with Rancher. Now with full support for Windows containers, Istio service mesh, and enhanced security for cloud-native workloads, Rancher helps developers innovate faster and with greater confidence. -
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NoOra is a database deployment tool which can be used to automate the database deployment cycle and is designed for agile and or devops teams. The supported database platforms are Oracle and Mysql. The support for Postgresql is work in progress. Feedback is more then welcome.
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Ostara
Ostara is an admin app for Spring Boot applications
Ostara is a modern desktop app for managing and monitoring Spring Boot applications with actuator API, similar to Spring Boot Admin. Our goal is to make the process more user-friendly and straightforward. With Ostara we wanted to create a tool that just works out of the box, without the need for anything besides a functioning Actuator API on the other end. Ostara allows you to gain insights into the performance and health of your applications by providing real-time data of metrics such as CPU and memory usage, app and system properties, beans and their dependencies, and much more. In addition the app allows you to perform actions on your applications like changing log levels and evict caches. Ostara is open source and free to use. We would greatly appreciate any feedback, recommendations and/or requests. -
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90DaysOfDevOps
The journey towards a better foundational knowledge of DevOps
This repository is used to document my journey on getting a better foundational knowledge of DevOps. I will be starting this journey on the 1st January 2022 but the idea is that we take 90 days which just so happens to be January 1st to March 31st. The reason for documenting these days is so that others can take something from it and also hopefully enhance the resources. The goal is to take 90 days, 1 hour a day, to tackle over 13 areas of DevOps to foundational knowledge. This will not cover all things DevOps but it will cover the areas that I feel will benefit my learning and understanding overall. What is and why do we use DevOps. Learning a Programming Language. Knowing Linux Basics. Understand Networking. Stick to one Cloud Provider. Use Git Effectively. Automate Configuration Management. Learn Infrastructure as Code. And much more! -
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AWS Toolkit for Azure DevOps
AWS Toolkit for Azure DevOps
The AWS Toolkit for Azure DevOps adds tasks to easily enable build and release pipelines in Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS) and Azure DevOps Server (previously known as Team Foundation Server (TFS)) to work with AWS services including Amazon S3, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS CodeDeploy, AWS Lambda, AWS CloudFormation, Amazon Simple Queue Service and Amazon Simple Notification Service, and run commands using the AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell module and the AWS CLI. This is an open source project because we want you to be involved. We love issues, feature requests, code reviews, pull requests or any positive contribution. To enable tasks to call AWS services when run as part of your build or release pipelines AWS credentials need to have been configured for the tasks or be available in the host process for the build agent. Note that the credentials are used specifically by the tasks when run in a build agent process, they are not related to end-user logins to your Azure DevOps instance.
Open Source DevOps Tools Guide
Open source DevOps tools are a powerful combination of software and processes that promote collaboration, information sharing, and speed in software development. Open source DevOps software offers developers the ability to develop faster, test more efficiently, and deploy with greater accuracy without incurring expensive proprietary licensing fees. Additionally, by lowering the cost of entry for individuals and companies, open source tools make it easier to experiment with new technologies without risking large sums of money.
Popular open source DevOps tools include automation platforms like Chef and Ansible; continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) solutions such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, CircleCI; infrastructure-as-code assemblers like Puppet or Terraform; monitoring solutions such as Prometheus or Nagios; container orchestration systems like Kubernetes; log management applications like ELK stack; testing frameworks such as Selenium or JUnit; code analysers such as SonarQube; version control systems like GitHub or Bitbucket. There are several other tools included in an open source DevOps toolbox designed to enable collaboration between groups of developers and operations professionals who strive towards efficient resource allocation project deployment cycle times within an organization
These tools can help organizations save both time and money while complying with strict process guidelines. They can also minimize risks associated with deployments e.g., data loss caused by manual errors during deployments which often result in costly rollbacks. Moreover, these open source DevOps tools boast popular features available for free alongside support from a diverse community which makes it much easier for developers to obtain feedback regarding their projects or to find other contributors when faced with sudden challenges at work.
Overall, implementing open source DevOps into any organization's workflow is always beneficial due to its low cost but highly valuable return on investment over time - from better efficiency due to automated tasks resulting in fewer mistakes being made during deployment cycles all the way through fast tracking innovation on experimental projects powered by crowdsourced insights from software engineering communities across the world wide web - making it one of the most powerful ways organizations can stay competitive while vastly cutting costs compared to implementing alternatives that require considerable investments upfront amongst other ongoing expenses.
What Features Do Open Source DevOps Tools Provide?
- Automation: Many open source DevOps tools provide automation capabilities, enabling users to automate tedious tasks and allow for faster implementations. This can include automatic provisioning of infrastructure, test automation, and deployment automation.
- Continuous Integration: Continuous integration is a critical part of the DevOps process, in which code changes are integrated into the existing codebase as quickly and often as possible. Open-source DevOps tools provide the ability to easily set up CI/CD pipelines that manage this process.
- Continuous Delivery/Deployment: Once code is checked through continuous integration, it needs to be deployed across different environments as needed. Open source DevOps tools provide features such as easy configuration of environments, automated builds and deployments of infrastructure configurations or application packages, rollback capabilities for failed deployments, etc.
- Infrastructure Configuration Management: Infrastructure configuration management (ICM) is an important aspect of any organization’s IT strategy. Open source DevOps tools can help you configure your servers quickly and efficiently with minimal manual effort. These tools can also monitor their health and report back on any errors or anomalies found during the ICM process.
- Monitoring & Logging: Monitoring applications for performance issues and tracking logs for potential issues requires a lot of manual effort if done manually—which is why open-source DevOps tools offer monitoring solutions that enable automated monitoring at scale so that teams can focus on other tasks instead of manually watching over every single metric or log entry all day long.
- Containerization & Orchestration:To increase flexibility, reduce complexity, and gain scalability benefits while deploying applications to production—especially when dealing with cloud Native architectures—containers are becoming an increasingly popular choice among development teams these days; with container orchestration being a necessary component when using containers at scale. Open source platforms like Kubernetes give developers access to advanced container orchestration features without having to pay extra costs associated with proprietary solution vendors’ offerings.
Different Types of Open Source DevOps Tools
- Configuration Management Tools: These tools bring speed and reliability to the application deployment process by allowing for automation of infrastructure configuration. They provide repeatable processes for the development, testing and deployment of applications across a wide range of servers.
- Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) Tools: These tools streamline the workflow between developers and operations teams, enabling both sides to better collaborate in releasing software faster with greater quality assurance. They provide a suite of automated processes such as build testing, code review, package management, as well as streamlined analysis and reporting capabilities.
- Containerization Platforms: With containerization platforms, developers can package up their entire application along with all required dependencies into tiny packages that can be launched quickly on different environments. This helps accelerate development timeframes while improving scalability and portability.
- Monitoring & Logging Solutions: These solutions allow DevOps teams to keep an eye on system performance in order to identify any issues or bottlenecks before they become major problems. Using comprehensive metrics insights, alerts can be generated in advance to trigger further investigation or corrective action.
- Cloud Computing Platforms: Cloud computing provides DevOps teams with access to massive resources without the need for costly hardware investments. This makes it possible for organizations to quickly spin up new instances when needed and scale resources according to their needs – helping keep costs down while gaining more flexibility over development cycles.
What Are the Advantages Provided by Open Source DevOps Tools?
- Cost-Effective: Open source DevOps tools are free and require no license fees, making them a cost-effective choice for businesses. Additionally, open source software often receives a high level of community support, with frequent updates and bug fixes helping to reduce any long-term expenditures.
- Scalability: Open source DevOps tools offer great scalability options without the need for additional development or licensing costs. This allows organizations to easily scale operations quickly and efficiently as demands increase.
- Flexible: Open source DevOps tools can be easily customized based on an organization's specific requirements which makes them highly flexible and easy to use. As they are completely customizable with an array of applications, they allow teams to work with different frameworks in one single platform.
- Security & Reliability: A number of open source DevOps tools provide secure environments as well as reliable code backup systems that help protect an organization’s data in case changes need to be reverted back. Furthermore, the community of developers working on these projects usually prioritize security thus ensuring high levels of reliability over time.
- Faster Delivery Cycles: The combination of automation features available with open source DevOps tools helps make delivery cycles faster by combining multiple processes into simple commands that can be executed at once. This helps improve the organization’s overall productivity by reducing manual labor tasks and human errors at each stage throughout the process chain.
Who Uses Open Source DevOps Tools?
- Developers: developers are software professionals responsible for coding, debugging, and testing applications. They use open-source DevOps tools to ensure their code is robust and high performing.
- IT Professionals: IT professionals are responsible for maintaining the infrastructure and architecture of business systems. Open source DevOps tools help them track usage patterns, maintain security standards, automate processes, and manage resources.
- Data Scientists: data scientists use DevOps tools to analyze large datasets quickly in order to gain insights into customer behavior or find anomalies in a given system.
- Security Professionals: security professionals rely on open source DevOps tools to detect security threats early on, protect data from malicious actors, audit permission levels within teams and across organizations, identify vulnerable areas that need protection, and monitor user activity for suspicious requests or activities.
- System Administrators: system administrators use DevOps tools to automate maintenance tasks related to patching systems or deploying updates across environments with minimal downtime or disruption of services.
- Business Analysts: business analysts utilize open source DevOps tools to measure the overall performance of an organization’s assets—such as application uptime or network latency—and identify any potential issues before they become problems.
- Designers & Engineers: designers and engineers use open source DevOps platforms for continuous integration/continuous delivery pipelines that accelerate product deployment life cycles while helping them build more reliable applications faster than ever before.
How Much Do Open Source DevOps Tools Cost?
Open source DevOps tools cost nothing to download and use, making them an attractive option for companies that want to go the extra mile when it comes to their technology solutions. The main costs associated with open source DevOps tools are usually related to implementation, customization, support and maintenance. Depending on your specific requirements, you may need additional resources such as software engineers or consultants in order to get up and running with your solutions.
The good news is that many popular open source DevOps tools are highly customizable, enabling users to tailor the platform to their needs without having to break the bank. Many open source projects offer a variety of community support channels where users can exchange ideas and ask questions about how best to configure their deployments according to their specific objectives. Additionally, some vendors provide professional services specifically tailored towards helping customers make full use of open source DevOps tools in production environments.
Overall, while there may be some costs associated with using open source DevOps tools depending upon how deeply you plan on integrating them into your organization’s processes or infrastructure, they remain an economical solution that many companies have found success with over time due in part to the dedicated communities behind each project’s development and widespread availability of technical expertise for when help is needed.
What Do Open Source DevOps Tools Integrate With?
Open source DevOps tools are designed to be able to integrate with a wide range of software types, allowing users to customize the tools to their own specific needs. This includes software such as configuration management tools like Chef and Puppet, container technology such as Docker, performance monitoring systems like Sensu and Prometheus, version control tools such as Git and Subversion, code testing solutions like Test Kitchen and Jenkins. Additionally, cloud-based solutions such as Amazon EC2 and Microsoft Azure can also work in tandem with open source DevOps tools. By integrating all of these different platforms together, users can build an efficient workflow that suits their specific requirements.
What Are the Trends Relating to Open Source DevOps Tools?
- Increased Demand for Open Source Tools: In recent years, there has been an increased demand for open source DevOps tools from businesses and developers alike. This demand is fueled by the need to reduce costs and the desire to have more control over projects.
- Ease of Use: Open source DevOps tools are typically easier to use than proprietary solutions. This is due to their modular design and extensive documentation, making them more accessible to users with a range of skill levels.
- Rapid Iterations: Open source DevOps tools are designed for rapid iteration, allowing developers to quickly test and deploy new features without waiting for a long release cycle. This speeds up development cycles, enabling companies to deliver products faster.
- Automation: Automation is an essential part of DevOps. Open source tools are often designed with automation in mind, allowing developers to quickly set up automated pipelines and performs tasks such as testing, deployment, and monitoring.
- Cross-Platform Support: Many open source DevOps tools are designed to work across multiple operating systems, making them ideal for organizations that use a mix of different platforms.
- Open Source Community: The open source community is one of the biggest advantages of using open source DevOps tools. Developers can share ideas and collaborate on projects, helping each other troubleshoot problems and improve their projects.
Getting Started With Open Source DevOps Tools
Getting started with open source DevOps tools can be a great way to reduce costs and increase efficiency in software development. Below are some steps users should take to get started:
- Research the Different Open Source Tools Available - There are many different types of open source DevOps tools available, so it’s important to do your research before selecting one or more specific tools. Consider researching popular open source project management and collaboration platforms such as Redmine, JIRA, and Phabricator; deployment frameworks such as Microsoft Release Management and Chef; and version control systems like Git or Subversion.
- Understand Your Organizational Needs - Once you know what kind of DevOps tool is best for your organization, you need to take into account things like scalability needs, security requirements, integration capabilities, budget constraints and performance goals when selecting the best solution. Make sure that any tool you select will meet your organizational needs both now and in the future.
- Find Resources For Installation & Training - Many open source projects offer resources such as installers, detailed user guide documents, support forums and training materials. These are all valuable resources when getting up-and-running with a new tool. Additionally, there are free online communities dedicated to discussing various aspects of the tool(s) you select – these can be invaluable sources of advice from experienced users who have already worked through common problems (and understand how to fix them).
- Setup Your Environment - This step involves installing software on servers or cloud environments (if needed) so that everything functions correctly on your environment/testbed before going live on production servers/infrastructure. With certain DevOps solutions this step may also require setting up build scripts or server configuration files for automation purposes.
- Test & Deploy - At this point the entire stack is ready for testing purposes in order to make sure everything works according to plan when deployed into production servers or cloud instances (this includes running automated tests if necessary). If everything looks good after testing then proceed with deploying it onto production. Be sure not forget about post-deployment maintenance tasks too – make sure backups are working properly, monitor logs regularly for errors/warnings etc., manage updates/upgrades as needed etc., depending upon what features each particular DevOps solution offers.