What are Devops Tools?
The main reason to implement DevOps is to improve the delivery pipeline and integration process by automating these activities. As a result, the product gets a shorter time-to-market. To achieve this automated release pipeline, the team must acquire specific tools instead of building them from scratch.
Currently, existing DevOps tools cover almost all stages of continuous delivery, starting from continuous integration environments and ending with containerization and deployment. While today some of the processes are still automated with custom scripts, mostly DevOps engineers use various open source products. Let’s have a look at the most popular ones:
1. Jenkins
It is a tool to use either as a server for continuous integration or a continuous delivery hub that comes with lots of additional plugins to tweak continuous delivery workflow.
Besides Jenkins, there’re many proprietary continuous integration tools. If you’d like to see these options as well, check our corresponding article where we compare the major CI tools on today’s market.
2. Selenium
It is an automated browser that allows QA teams to write scripts and test web products. It’s compatible with eight popular programming languages.
3. Git
It is a Version Control System with a repository for source code management that enables working online and offline.
4. Chef
Chef is a tool for infrastructure as code management that runs both on cloud and hardware servers. Another popular tool in this category is Ansible that automates configuration management, cloud provisioning, and application deployment.
5. Docker
It is an instrument that helps with packaging code into self-contained units, i.e. containers.
6. Nagios
It is an infrastructure monitoring tool that presents analytics in visual reports.
What devops engineer do?
A DevOps engineer is an IT professional who works with software developers, system operators (SysOps) and other production IT staff to oversee code releases and deployments. The role calls for someone who has relevant hard and soft skills to overcome the traditional barriers between software development, QA, testing and IT operations teams and foster a collaborative, holistic environment.