Avoiding DevOps tool hell

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  • Vault

    A tool for secrets management, encryption as a service, and privileged access management

  • Security: All forms of data can be lost without security in applications. Using a tool such as Vault from Hashicorp can be helpful.

  • hcl

    HCL is the HashiCorp configuration language.

  • The Hashicorp corporation has made a huge impact in providing valuable tools and platforms in the cloud ecosystem. The advantage of using the tools they provide, such as Terraform, Vault, and Packer, is that they all have the same language, Hashicorp Configuration Language (HCL). This means you can easily pick up any of these tools by learning HCL, which is similar to JSON. This approach can be useful when choosing tools to learn or use for a project.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • terraform

    Terraform enables you to safely and predictably create, change, and improve infrastructure. It is a source-available tool that codifies APIs into declarative configuration files that can be shared amongst team members, treated as code, edited, reviewed, and versioned.

  • Infrastructure management: To automate the process of setting up and managing cloud infrastructure, a tool like Terraform is king!

  • Packer

    Packer is a tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration.

  • Server templating: Using Packer has never been easier to create reusable server configurations in a platform-independent and documented manner.

  • consul-template

    Template rendering, notifier, and supervisor for @HashiCorp Consul and Vault data.

  • The Hashicorp corporation has made a huge impact in providing valuable tools and platforms in the cloud ecosystem. The advantage of using the tools they provide, such as Terraform, Vault, and Packer, is that they all have the same language, Hashicorp Configuration Language (HCL). This means you can easily pick up any of these tools by learning HCL, which is similar to JSON. This approach can be useful when choosing tools to learn or use for a project.

  • docker

    Docker - the open-source application container engine (by microsoft)

  • Containers and Container Orchestration: Packaging applications and their respective dependencies have never been easier using Docker while orchestrating container infrastructure with an effective tool such as Kubernetes.

  • prometheus

    The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database.

  • Monitoring and Logging: Monitoring statistics and obtaining logs from applications can be done using tools such as Prometheus and Grafana.

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • kubernetes

    Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management

  • Containers and Container Orchestration: Packaging applications and their respective dependencies have never been easier using Docker while orchestrating container infrastructure with an effective tool such as Kubernetes.

  • Grafana

    The open and composable observability and data visualization platform. Visualize metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources like Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Postgres and many more.

  • Monitoring and Logging: Monitoring statistics and obtaining logs from applications can be done using tools such as Prometheus and Grafana.

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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