As we close out 2021, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the eighth in our series of the Best of 2021.
DevOps isn’t just a cultural shift — it requires great tools to come to fruition. Below, we’ve pulled together a list of some of the most well-loved DevOps tools available today. But, throwing loads of money into fancy SaaS solutions can quickly gobble up the cloud budget. These DevOps tools all are open source, and enable everything from container builds and orchestration to microservices networking, configuration management, CI/CD automation, full-stack monitoring and more. Here are some of our favorite open source DevOps tools for 2021.
1. CNCF).2. open source container auditing tools like Docker Bench or Kuma as viable open source service mesh alternatives.4. Jenkins is an open source automation server with hundreds of plugins to automate the building, deployment and testing of software projects. Although GitHub Actions could theoretically GitLab Community Edition still are preferred by many DevOps teams.6. Awesome Prometheus list for Prometheus introductions and additional resources.7. Terraform
4. Jenkins is an open source automation server with hundreds of plugins to automate the building, deployment and testing of software projects. Although GitHub Actions could theoretically GitLab Community Edition still are preferred by many DevOps teams.6. Awesome Prometheus list for Prometheus introductions and additional resources.7. Terraform
7. Terraform
Terraform is another IaC tool that can be used for initiation of building, versioning and further automation using configuration files. “Terraform is a tool for building, changing and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently,” ELK Stack
no-code and low-code platforms are opening up DevOps capabilities to non-programmers, albeit from a proprietary perspective.
It’s also helpful to note that some popular open source DevOps tools have been acquired — like Docker and Chef — blurring the lines between their business and their open source roots. When it comes to open source tools, it’s a good practice to adopt vendor-neutral tools with benefits outweigh the time-to-onboard as well as the operational overhead of self-hosting.
DevOps tools are beneficial to automate software deployment. Here, we’ve attempted to list some of the most exciting tools to help automate that process. Of course, many new tools are emerging in the DevOps space, and we have hardly scratched the surface. Do you have a favorite DevOps tool that’s not mentioned above? Let us know in the comments below!
