JFrog announced that its DevOps Platform tools – JFrog Artifactory and JFrog Xray – are available with native deployment templates for customers using AWS GovCloud (US) and Azure Government clouds.
30 Must-Have Tools to Support DevOps - Part 2
March 15, 2016
DEVOPSdigest asked experts from across the industry for their recommendation on a key technology required for DevOps. Part 2 of the list covers automation and continuous integration.
Start with 30 Must-Have Tools to Support DevOps - Part 1
9. AUTOMATION
DevOps relies, technologically, on automation and socially, on collaboration. You can't empower development and operations to collaborate and move faster until the manual scripting and configuration tasks are automated. So automation truly is the tooling foundation of DevOps. In short, automation supports a workflow that provides speed, scale and consistency – the end-state anyone practicing DevOps is trying to achieve.
Lucas A. Welch
Director of Communications, Chef
The single most important tool for DevOps success is an automation tool that is capable of supporting a variety of technologies. Our customer base needs a complete big data stack automation tool that speeds the creation of big data clusters for hard-to-system-engineer, distributed processing applications. With this type of tool developers can gain access to a Hadoop cluster almost immediately – as opposed to the weeks or months it might take through conventional channels. This allows developers and data scientists to experiment and innovate rapidly.
Brad Kolarov
Managing Partner, B23
The true must-have tool to enable DevOps is a culture of collaboration. Without trusted and transparent interaction between Development and Operations, you can't enable DevOps. Concurrent with a shift in culture is the need for automated tooling at all levels: build, test, deploy, monitor and remediate.
Bill Berutti
President of the Cloud, Data Center and Performance Businesses at BMC Software
10. CONTINUOUS INTEGRATION
A continuous integration tool is vital to enabling DevOps. With the help of other tools, they form the automation backbone that consolidates developers’ code submissions, packages and tests releases, and deploys releases into production.
Krishnan Badrinarayanan
Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Riverbed
Tools alone will not drive DevOps transformations; however, if I had to pick one critical tool to DevOps, I would say it is the CI Server. If the service delivery pipeline is the blood of DevOps, then the CI Server is the heart.
John Willis
Director of Ecosystem Development, Docker
Continuous integration is the best way to tie your development, testing and deployment into a single end-to-end process that “just works”, allowing Development and Ops to focus on what they do best and deliver quality code to your users faster
Matt Solnit
CTO, SOASTA
11. BUILD AUTOMATION
Silicon Valley software teams increasingly look to Build Automation as the key to developer productivity – because it empowers developers to define the behavior of all the other downstream DevOps toolchain.
Miko Matsumura
CMO, Gradle
12. AUTOMATED CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT
In my opinion, integration testing is the most important phase of software development. This makes automated configuration management a must-have in the DevOps toolbox. The growth of containers and microservices makes it all the more critical to track components and ensure that the right version of components are being tested.
Gabe Lowy
Technology Analyst and Founder of TechTonics Advisors
Read Gabe Lowy's latest blog on DEVOPSdigest: The DevOps Payoff
13. SELENIUM GRID
One must-have tool to enable DevOps is a Selenium (or Appium) grid to support automated unit and functional tests that run whenever a new code is checked in via the CI server. Ideally, this grid is on a 3rd-party cloud service so that the DevOps team does not have to deal with maintaining an image library of the latest browser, OS, and device combinations, or the delays associated with false positives that may be introduced as the result of a testing infrastructure unreliability.
Lubos Parobek
VP of Products, Sauce Labs
Read 30 Must-Have Tools to Support DevOps - Part 3, covering continuous delivery.
Industry News
March 02, 2021
Spectro Cloud announced support for existing Kubernetes environments, including clusters on public cloud services such as Amazon EKS, Azure AKS and Google GKE, has been added to the Spectro Cloud Kubernetes management platform.
March 02, 2021
Idera announced the acquisition of PreEmptive Solutions, LLC, a provider of application protection and security.
March 01, 2021
CloudBolt Software announced the launch of OneFuse Community Edition, a free version of its codeless integration platform for automating, integrating, and extending private and hybrid cloud infrastructures.
March 01, 2021
DBmaestro launched support for Snowflake, the Data Cloud company.
March 01, 2021
Platform9 closed Series-D funding with an additional $12.5 million for a total of $37.5 million.
February 25, 2021
Red Hat announced Red Hat OpenShift 4.7, the latest version of the company’s enterprise Kubernetes platform.
February 25, 2021
Granulate announced the release of its open-source platform, the G-Profiler, a production profiling solution that measures the performance of code in production applications to facilitate compute optimization.
February 25, 2021
Checkmarx announced the launch of KICS (Keeping Infrastructure as Code Secure), an open source static analysis solution that enables developers to write more secure infrastructure as code (IaC).
February 24, 2021
Applause launched its Product Excellence Platform (PEP).
February 24, 2021
Mabl announced the beta release of their new native desktop application that empowers users to easily automate testing for browsers, mobile browsers, and APIs.
February 24, 2021
D2iQ announced the general availability of D2iQ Kaptain, the cloud native end-to-end platform for running ML workloads on Kubernetes.
February 23, 2021
Edge Delta announced new capabilities for dynamically processing and routing logs, metrics, and traces -- allowing DevOps, Security, and SRE teams to analyze large volumes of streaming data without the cost, delay, or complexity of requiring data to be indexed, helping customers decouple where machine data is analyzed from where it is stored.
February 23, 2021
env0 announced a remote run SaaS solution for the automation of Terragrunt workloads across multiple Terraform modules.
February 23, 2021
Platform9 closed its Series-D funding with an additional $12.5 million for a total of $37.5 million.
