DevOps Tools Ecosystem Cheatsheet
Comprehensive guide to DevOps tools covering scripting/programming languages, cloud platforms, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), observability & monitoring, CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration, source control, and collaborative tools for modern DevOps practices. Essential for managing infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and deployments across your VPS infrastructure and cloud environments.
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Scripting & Programming
Essential programming and scripting languages for automation, tooling, and infrastructure management in DevOps workflows.
🐍 Python
Popular language for automation scripts, infrastructure tools, and cloud SDKs. Widely used in DevOps for its readability and extensive library ecosystem.
Official Documentation →🔷 Go (Golang)
Modern language designed for cloud-native applications. Powers tools like Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and many other DevOps platforms.
Official Documentation →📜 Groovy
Dynamic language for the JVM, primarily used for Jenkins pipeline scripts and Gradle build automation. Essential for CI/CD pipeline development.
Official Documentation →💻 Bash
Unix shell scripting language for automating system administration tasks, deployment scripts, and server configuration.
Official Documentation →Cloud Platforms
Leading cloud service providers offering infrastructure, platform, and software services for scalable application deployment. Compare real-world performance across providers using our VPS benchmarks.
☁️ Microsoft Azure
Microsoft's cloud platform offering compute, storage, databases, AI, and enterprise integration services. Strong for hybrid cloud and Windows workloads.
Official Documentation →🟠 Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Market-leading cloud provider with the most comprehensive service offerings including EC2, S3, Lambda, and 200+ services.
Official Documentation →🔵 Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Google's cloud infrastructure with strengths in machine learning, big data analytics, and Kubernetes (GKE). Known for developer-friendly tools.
Official Documentation →🌐 CircleCI
Cloud-based CI/CD platform for automated testing and deployment. Integrates with GitHub and Bitbucket for streamlined workflows.
Official Documentation →Infrastructure as Code (IaC) & IP
Tools for defining and managing infrastructure through code, enabling version control, automation, and consistent deployments.
🟣 Terraform
Leading IaC tool by HashiCorp for provisioning infrastructure across multiple cloud providers using declarative configuration files (HCL).
Official Documentation →🎭 Puppet
Configuration management tool for automating server provisioning, configuration, and management at scale using declarative language.
Official Documentation →🔴 Ansible
Agentless automation tool using YAML playbooks for configuration management, application deployment, and task automation.
Official Documentation →🌟 Pulumi
Modern IaC platform allowing infrastructure definition using general-purpose programming languages (Python, TypeScript, Go, C#).
Official Documentation →Observability & Monitoring
Essential tools for monitoring system health, collecting metrics, visualizing data, and alerting on issues in real-time.
🔄 New Relic
Full-stack observability platform for application performance monitoring (APM), infrastructure monitoring, and log management.
Official Documentation →📊 Grafana
Open-source analytics and visualization platform for creating dashboards and graphs from multiple data sources like Prometheus.
Official Documentation →🔥 Prometheus
Open-source monitoring system with a time-series database, powerful query language (PromQL), and alerting capabilities.
Official Documentation →⚡ Nagios
Veteran monitoring system for infrastructure, network, and application monitoring with extensive plugin ecosystem.
Official Documentation →Plan & Collaboration
Project management, documentation, and team communication tools for coordinating DevOps workflows and collaboration.
📋 Jira Software
Agile project management tool for tracking issues, sprints, and workflows. Integrates with CI/CD pipelines for end-to-end visibility.
Official Documentation →📚 Confluence
Team collaboration and documentation wiki. Perfect for creating runbooks, architecture diagrams, and technical documentation.
Official Documentation →💬 Slack
Real-time messaging platform for team communication. Integrates with DevOps tools for alerts, notifications, and ChatOps workflows.
Official Documentation →Source Control & Collaborative Coding
Git hosting platforms with collaboration features, CI/CD integration, and code review workflows.
🐙 GitHub
Leading Git hosting platform with GitHub Actions for CI/CD, pull requests for code review, and extensive integration ecosystem.
Official Documentation →🪣 Bitbucket
Git repository hosting by Atlassian with built-in CI/CD pipelines. Integrates seamlessly with Jira and Confluence.
Official Documentation →🦊 GitLab
Complete DevOps platform with Git hosting, built-in CI/CD, container registry, and security scanning all in one tool.
Official Documentation →Automated Testing
Testing frameworks and security scanning tools for ensuring code quality, security, and functionality in CI/CD pipelines.
🐕 Snyk
Developer-first security platform for finding and fixing vulnerabilities in code, dependencies, containers, and IaC.
Official Documentation →🌐 Selenium
Browser automation framework for web application testing. Supports multiple browsers and programming languages.
Official Documentation →📱 Appium
Mobile automation framework for testing iOS and Android applications using native, hybrid, or mobile web apps.
Official Documentation →Continuous Feedback
Tools for gathering user feedback, tracking issues, and enabling real-time communication for continuous improvement.
📋 Jira
Issue tracking and project management for collecting user feedback, bug reports, and feature requests in agile workflows.
Official Documentation →📊 Pendo
Product analytics and user feedback platform for understanding feature usage, user behavior, and collecting in-app feedback.
Official Documentation →💬 Slack
Real-time communication for instant feedback loops, incident response, and team collaboration across DevOps lifecycle.
Official Documentation →Container Orchestration
Platforms for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications in production environments. Need optimized servers for Kubernetes? Check our VPS comparison tool for container-ready hosts.
☸️ Kubernetes
Industry-standard container orchestration platform for automating deployment, scaling, and operations of application containers at scale.
Official Documentation →🐳 Docker Swarm
Native clustering and orchestration tool for Docker containers. Simpler alternative to Kubernetes for smaller deployments.
Official Documentation →Source Code Management
Version control systems for tracking code changes, collaboration, and maintaining code history across teams.
📂 Git
Distributed version control system for tracking changes, branching, merging, and collaborative software development. Industry standard.
Official Documentation →🔄 Subversion (SVN)
Centralized version control system. Legacy tool still used in some enterprises for binary asset management and simplified workflows.
Official Documentation →Operating Systems & Containers
Operating systems and container runtimes that form the foundation of modern DevOps infrastructure.
🐧 Linux
Open-source operating system dominating cloud infrastructure, containers, and server deployments. Essential for DevOps engineers.
Official Documentation →🪟 Windows
Microsoft's operating system with Windows Server for enterprise applications, .NET workloads, and hybrid cloud scenarios.
Official Documentation →🐳 Docker
Leading containerization platform for packaging applications with dependencies into portable containers for consistent deployments.
Official Documentation →📦 Podman
Daemonless container engine compatible with Docker. Rootless containers for enhanced security and OCI-compliant images.
Official Documentation →Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)
Automation platforms for building, testing, and deploying applications continuously with reliability and speed.
🎩 Jenkins
Open-source automation server for CI/CD pipelines. Highly extensible with 1800+ plugins for integrating with any tool in DevOps toolchain.
Official Documentation →🔵 CircleCI
Cloud-native CI/CD platform with Docker support, parallel job execution, and easy configuration through YAML files.
Official Documentation →🎋 Bamboo
Atlassian's CI/CD server with deep integration with Jira and Bitbucket for end-to-end traceability of builds and deployments.
Official Documentation →📦 Vagrant
Development environment automation tool for creating and configuring reproducible virtual machine environments with simple configuration.
Official Documentation →🦑 ArgoCD
GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes. Automatically syncs application state from Git repositories to Kubernetes clusters.
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