In this tutorial, we’ll list and explain the top 10 DevOps tools for automation that are highly used in Infrastructure automation.
Top 10 DevOps Tools for Automation
DevOps tool is used to speed up our work with some kind of procedure, and there is no single tool that can full fill all kinds of our automation requirements such as provision, auto-deploy, code deployment, and configuration.
We have listed some of the top 10 DevOps tools for Automation, from this some of them you already know.
Ansible tool
Ansible is basically used for server/configuration management and it is an agent-less configuration. Here we call configuration modules playbooks that are written in “yaml” format. Ansible can be used for both local and cloud provisioning.
Terraform
Terraform is used for the Infrastructure configuration tool, It is written in Go and developed by Hashicorp. Terraform use state files from which it will maintain the state of infrastructure. Terraform is very easy to understand and implement.
Packer tool
Packer is used to automate the creation of any type of machine image. Nowadays packer is used on AWS Cloud. It provides high-end configuration management for you to use automated scripts to install and configure the software within your packer-made images. It supports building images for Amazon EC2, CloudStack, DigitalOcean, VMware, VirtualBox, Docker, GCE, Azure.
Docker
Docker is used to creating isolated environments for applications called containers. Docker is also called as next step of virtualization. Nowadays in all DevOps tools, Docker is highly used in virtualization.
Chef tool
The chef is a DevOps Popular tool which is a ruby based configuration tool. Chef has the concept of cookbooks where you code your infrastructure in a domain-specific language (DSL) with a little bit of programming which is also known as “Infrastructure as code”. Chef provision the machine according to the cookbook but you need to set up an agent on all servers. The agent will be responsible to pull the cookbooks from the chef master and runs on the server.
Puppet
Puppet tool is also a ruby based configuration management tool such as chef. More or less it works similarly to the chef’s works. In puppet configuration code is written in puppet DSL as a module. There is a puppet agent that needs to run on all servers. Puppet agent pulls the module from the puppet server and installs packages specified in the module.
Saltstack
Saltstack tool is an open configuration management tool – it is python based which supports remote execution of commands. In chef and puppet, there is an agent that pulls configuration from the server but in Saltstack you can push too many nodes simultaneously. Saltstack is very fast in code compilation and configuration.
Jenkins
Jenkins is a CI/CD Opensource tool that is used for faster delivery of the application. Jenkins needs to configure with version control such as GitHub or SVN. Jenkins can be used for building pipelines for the application provisioning and deployment, it is also called a pipeline as a code.
When we push any code then the Jenkins server builds and test the latest/new code and notifies the team with result and changes.
Vagrant
Vagrant is used for a development environment for configuring virtual machines. Vagrant works one step up than the VM solutions such as Virtualbox, VMware, Hyper-V, etc. In Vagrant configuration file is called Vagrantfile, which contains all the parameters which are needed to VM. Vagrant can be used for Cloud Provisioning, configure tool, and docker.
New Relic
A new Relic is a cloud-based Software as a Service (SaaS) solution for monitoring such as applications. It supports various applications which are PHP, Ruby, Java, NodeJS, etc. New Relic monitors real-time about the application running. To monitor any of the applications we need the installed agent on the application to get real-time data. Similar to this there is other monitor tool such as Sensu, datadog and etc…
Sensu is used to monitor framework and it is an Opensource which is written in Ruby. Datadog is a server monitoring solution.
These are the Top 10 DevOps Tools for Automation.
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