A curated list of awesome DevOps tools, technologies, platforms and resources. Things to help/grow you in DevOps or SRE area.
- Awesome DevOps
- Cloud Platforms
- Open Source Cloud Platforms
- Operating Systems
- Distributed Filesystems
- Applications Platforms
- Container Image Registry
- Automation & Orchestration
- Continuous Integration & Delivery
- Source Code Management
- Web Servers
- SSL
- Databases
- Observability and Monitoring
- Service Discovery & Service Mesh
- Chaos Engineering
- API Gateway
- Code review
- Distributed messaging
- Programming Languages
- Chat and ChatOps
- Secret Management
- Sharing
- VPN
- Resources
- Contributing
- Authors
Public and Private Cloud Platforms.
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) - Cloud Computing Services.
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP) - Cloud Computing Services.
- Azure - Cloud Computing Platform & Services.
- Alibaba Cloud - integrated suite of cloud products and services.
- Oracle Cloud - comprehensive and fully integrated stack of cloud applications and platform services.
- DigitalOcean - helping developers easily build, test, manage, and scale applications of any size.
- Scaleway - single way to create, deploy and scale your infrastructure in the cloud.
- Vultr - easily deploy cloud servers, bare metal, and storage worldwide.
- VMware Cloud - run, manage, connect and protect all of your apps on any cloud.
- IBM Cloud - tools, data & APIs to make AI real now.
- Stackpath - platform of computing infrastructure and services built at the edge of the cloud.
- Linode - accelerate innovation in the cloud, virtual computing must be more accessible, affordable, and simple.
Private, Public and Hybrid open source Cloud Platforms.
- Openstack - open source software for creating private and public clouds.
- Apache CloudStack - designed to deploy and manage large networks of virtual machines.
- OpenNebula - build Private Clouds and manage Data Center virtualization based on KVM, LXD and VMware.
- Eucalyptus - building AWS-compatible private and hybrid clouds.
- DC/OS - distributed operating system based on the Apache Mesos distributed systems kernel.
- Apache Mesos - program against your datacenter like it’s a single pool of resources.
- Localstack - fully functional local AWS cloud stack. Develop and test your cloud & Serverless apps offline.
Operating Systems - Server Platform.
- Ubuntu
- CentOS
- CoreOS - the pioneering lightweight container host.
- OSv - versatile modular unikernel designed to run unmodified Linux applications securely on micro-VMs in the cloud.
- Rancher OS - a lightweight, secure Linux distribution, built from containers to run containers well.
- Atomic - use immutable infrastructure to deploy and scale your containerized applications.
- Photon - Linux container host optimized for cloud-native applications, cloud platforms, and VMware infrastructure.
Network distributed filesystems.
- Ceph - highly scalable object, block and file-based storage under one whole system.
- Gluster - free and open source software scalable network filesystem.
- LINBIT - create, remove, and replicate block storage devices for datacenter scale environments.
- XtreemFS - fault-tolerant distributed file system for all storage needs.
- min.io - high performance, distributed object storage system.
Applications management platforms, Containers platform and Containers management.
- Openshift - the Kubernetes platform for big ideas.
- Dokku - helps you build and manage the lifecycle of applications.
- Flynn - open source platform (PaaS) for running applications in production.
- Docker - create, deploy, and run applications by using containers.
- Docker Compose - define and run multi-container applications with Docker.
- Docker Swarm - Docker-native clustering system.
- Kubernetes - automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.
- LXC - lets Linux users easily create and manage system or application containers.
- Rancher - lets you deliver Kubernetes-as-a-Service.
- OpenVz - container-based virtualization for Linux.
- Singularity - run the application from the local environment to the cloud.
- AppScale - easy-to-manage serverless platform for building and running scalable web and mobile applications.
- Kata Containers - building lightweight virtual machines that seamlessly plug into the containers ecosystem.
- K3S - The certified Kubernetes distribution built for IoT and Edge computing.
- Podman - a tool for managing OCI containers and pods.
Container Image registry.
- Quay - container image registry that enables you to build, organize, distribute, and deploy containers.
- Dockyard - Container & Artifact Repository.
- Harbor - an open source trusted cloud native registry project that stores, signs, and scans content.
Tools for automation, orchestration, deployment, provisioning and configuration management.
- Ansible - simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy.
- Salt - automate the management and configuration of any infrastructure or application at scale.
- Puppet - unparalleled infrastructure automation and delivery.
- Chef - automate infrastructure and applications.
- Juju - simplifies how you configure, scale and operate today's complex software.
- Rundeck - Runbook Automation For Modernizing Your Operations.
- StackStorm - connects all your apps, services, and workflows. Automate DevOps your way.
- Bosh - release engineering, deployment, and lifecycle management of complex distributed systems.
- Cloudify - Connect, Control, & Automate from core to edge: unlimited locations, clouds and devices.
- Tsuru - an extensible and open source Platform as a Service software.
- Fabric - high level Python library designed to execute shell commands remotely over SSH.
- Capistrano - A remote server automation and deployment tool.
- Mina - really fast deployer and server automation tool.
- Terraform - use Infrastructure as Code to provision and manage any cloud, infrastructure, or service.
- Pulumi - modern infrastructure as code platform that allows you to use familiar programming languages and tools to build, deploy, and manage cloud infrastructure.
- Packer - build Automated Machine Images.
- Vagrant - Development Environments Made Easy.
- Foreman - complete lifecycle management tool for physical and virtual servers.
- Nomad - deploy and Manage Any Containerized, Legacy, or Batch Application.
- Marathon - a production-grade container orchestration platform for DC/OS and Apache Mesos.
- Atlantis - Terraform Pull Request Automation.
- OctoDNS - managing DNS across multiple providers. DNS as code.
- ManageIQ - Manage containers, virtual machines, networks, and storage from a single platform.
- Ignite - Open Source Virtual Machine (VM) manager with a container UX and built-in GitOps management.
- Spacelift - Flexible orchestration solution for IaC development.
- Atlantis - Terraform Pull Request Automation.
- Stacktape - Developer-friendly Infrastructure as a Code framework built on top of AWS.
- Score - Open Source developer-centric and platform-agnostic workload specification.
Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery and Continuous Delivery. GitOps
- On premises
- Buildbot - automate all aspects of the software development cycle.
- Gitlab CI - pipelines build, test, deploy, and monitor your code as part of a single, integrated workflow.
- Jenkins - automation server for building, deploying and automating any project.
- Drone - a Container-Native, Continuous Delivery Platform.
- Concourse - pipeline-based continuous thing-doer.
- Spinnaker - fast, safe, repeatable deployments for every Enterprise.
- goCD - Delivery and Release Automation server.
- Teamcity - enterprise-level CI and CD.
- Bamboo - tie automated builds, tests, and releases together in a single workflow.
- Integrity - Continuous Integration server.
- Zuul - drives continuous integration, delivery, and deployment systems with a focus on project gating.
- Argo - Open Source Kubernetes native workflows, events, CI and CD.
- Strider - Continuous Deployment/Continuous Integration platform.
- Evergreen - A Distributed Continuous Integration System from MongoDB.
- werf - Open Source CI/CD tool for building Docker images & deploying them to Kubernetes using a GitOps approach.
- Flux - automatically ensures that the state of your Kubernetes cluster matches the configuration you’ve supplied in Git.
- Flagger - progressive delivery Kubernetes operator (Canary, A/B Testing and Blue/Green deployments).
- Tekton - powerful and flexible open-source framework for creating CI/CD systems.
- PipeCD - Continuous Delivery for Declarative Kubernetes, Serverless and Infrastructure Applications.
- Gitploy - Build the deployment system around GitHub in minutes.
- Public Services
- Travis CI - easily sync your projects, you’ll be testing your code in minutes.
- Circle CI - powerful CI/CD pipelines that keep code moving.
- Bitrise - CI/CD for mobile applications.
- Buildkite - run fast, secure, and scalable continuous integration pipelines on your own infrastructure.
- Cirrus CI - continuous integration system built for the era of cloud computing.
- Codefresh - GitOps automation platform for Kubernetes apps.
- Github actions - GitHub Actions makes it easy to automate all your software workflows, now with world-class CI/CD.
- Kraken CI - modern CI/CD, open-source, on-premise system that is highly scalable and focused on testing.
- Earthly - Develop CI/CD pipelines locally and run them anywhere.
Source Code management, Git-repository manager, Version Control. Some of them include Code review.
- Github - helps developers store and manage their code, as well as track and control changes to their code.
- Gitlab - entire DevOps lifecycle in one application.
- Bitbucket - gives teams one place to plan projects, collaborate on code, test, and deploy
- Phabricator - a collection of web applications which help software companies build better software.
- Gogs - a painless self-hosted Git service.
- Gitea - a painless self-hosted Git service.
- Gitblit - pure Java Git solution for managing, viewing, and serving Git repositories.
Web servers and reverse proxy.
- Nginx - high performance load balancer, web server and reverse proxy.
- Apache - web server and reverse proxy.
- Caddy - web server with automatic HTTPS.
- Cherokee - highly concurrent secured web applications.
- Lighttpd - optimized for speed-critical environments while remaining standards-compliant, secure and flexible.
- Uwsgi - application server container.
Tools for automating the management of SSL certificates.
- Certbot - automate using Let’s Encrypt certificates on manually-managed websites to enable HTTPS.
- Let’s Encrypt - free, automated, and open Certificate Authority.
- Cert Manager - K8S add-on to automate the management and issuance of TLS certificates from various issuing sources.
Relational (SQL) and non-relational (NoSQL) databases.
- Relational (SQL)
- PostgreSQL - powerful, open source object-relational database system.
- MySQL - open-source relational database management system.
- MariaDB - fast, scalable and robust, with a rich ecosystem of storage engines, plugins and many other tools.
- SQLite - small, fast, self-contained, high-reliability, full-featured, SQL database engine.
- Non-relational (NoSQL)
- Cassandra - manage massive amounts of data, fast, without losing sleep.
- Apache HBase - distributed, versioned, non-relational database.
- Couchdb - database that completely embraces the web.
- Elasticsearch - distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine capable of addressing a growing number of use cases.
- MongoDB - general purpose, document-based, distributed database built for modern applications.
- Rethinkdb - open-source database for the realtime web.
- Key-Value
- Couchbase - distributed multi-model NoSQL document-oriented database that is optimized for interactive applications.
- Leveldb - fast key-value storage library.
- Redis - in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache and message broker.
- RocksDB - a library that provides an embeddable, persistent key-value store for fast storage.
- Etcd - distributed reliable key-value store for the most critical data of a distributed system.
Observability, Monitoring, Metrics/Metrics collection and Alerting tools.
- Sensu - Simple. Scalable. Multi-cloud monitoring.
- Alerta - scalable, minimal configuration and visualization monitoring system.
- Cabot - self-hosted, easily-deployable monitoring and alerts service.
- Amon - modern server monitoring platform.
- Flapjack - monitoring notification routing + event processing system.
- Icinga - monitors availability and performance, gives you simple access to relevant data and raises alerts.
- Monit - managing and monitoring Unix systems.
- Naemon - fast, stable and innovative while giving you a clear view of the state of your network and applications.
- Nagios - computer-software application that monitors systems, networks and infrastructure.
- Sentry - error monitoring that helps all software teams discover, triage, and prioritize errors in real-time.
- Shinken - monitoring framework.
- Zabbix - mature and effortless monitoring solution for network monitoring and application monitoring.
- Glances - monitoring information through a curses or Web based interface.
- Healthchecks - cron monitoring tool.
- Bolo - building distributed, scalable monitoring systems.
- cAdvisor - analyzes resource usage and performance characteristics of running containers.
- ElastiFlow - network flow monitoring (Netflow, sFlow and IPFIX) with the Elastic Stack.
- Co-Pilot - system performance analysis toolkit.
- Metrics/Metrics collection
- Thundra Foresight - visibility into CI pipeline by spotting test failures in no time.
- Prometheus - power your metrics and alerting with a leading open-source monitoring solution.
- Collectd - the system statistics collection daemon.
- Facette - time series data visualization software.
- Grafana - analytics & monitoring solution for every database.
- Graphite - store numeric time-series data and render graphs of this data on demand.
- Influxdata - time series database.
- Netdata - instantly diagnose slowdowns and anomalies in your infrastructure.
- Freeboard - real-time dashboard builder for IOT and other web mashups.
- Logs Management
- Anthracite - an event/change logging/management app.
- Graylog - free and open source log management.
- Logstash - collect, parse, transform logs.
- Fluentd - data collector for unified logging layer.
- Flume - distributed, reliable, and available service for efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving logs.
- Heka - stream processing software system.
- Kibana - explore, visualize, discover data.
- Loki - horizontally-scalable, highly-available, multi-tenant log aggregation system inspired by Prometheus.
- Status
- Cachet - beautiful and powerful open source status page system.
Service Discovery, Service Mesh and Failure detection tools.
- Consul - connect and secure any service.
- Serf - decentralized cluster membership, failure detection, and orchestration.
- Doozerd - a consistent distributed data store.
- Zookeeper - centralized service for configuration, naming, providing distributed synchronization, and more.
- Etcd - distributed, reliable key-value store for the most critical data of a distributed system.
- Istio - connect, secure, control, and observe services.
- Kong - deliver performance needed for microservices, service mesh, and cloud native deployments.
- Linkerd - service mesh for Kubernetes and beyond.
The discipline of experimenting on a distributed system in order to build confidence in the system's capability to withstand turbulent conditions in production.
- Chaos Toolkit - the Open Source Platform for Chaos Engineering.
- Chaos Monkey - a resiliency tool that helps applications tolerate random instance failures.
- Toxiproxy - simulate network and system conditions for chaos and resiliency testing.
- Pumba - chaos testing, network emulation and stress testing tool for containers.
- Chaos Mesh - A Chaos Engineering Platform for Kubernetes.
- Litmus - Litmus enables teams to identify weaknesses in infrastructures.
API Gateway, Service Proxy and Service Management tools.
- API Umbrella - proxy that sits in front of your APIs.
- Ambassador - Kubernetes-Native API Gateway built on the Envoy Proxy.
- Kong - connect all your microservices and APIs with the industry’s most performant, scalable and flexible API platform.
- Tyk - API and service management platform.
- Cilium - API aware networking and security using BPF and XDP.
- Gloo - feature-rich, Kubernetes-native ingress controller, and next-generation API gateway.
- Envoy - cloud-native high-performance edge/middle/service proxy.
- Traefik - reverse proxy and load balancer for HTTP and TCP-based applications.
- Nginx - high performance reverse proxy.
Code review. A few of the Source Code Management tools have built-in code review features.
- Gerrit - web-based team code collaboration tool.
- Review Board - web-based collaborative code review tool.
Distributed messaging platforms and Queues software.
- Rabbitmq - message broker.
- Kafka - building real-time data pipelines and streaming apps.
- Activemq - Multi-Protocol messaging.
- Beanstalkd - simple, fast work queue.
- NSQ - realtime distributed messaging platform.
- Celery - asynchronous task queue/job queue based on distributed message passing.
- Faktory - repository for background jobs within your application.
- Nats - simple, secure and high performance open source messaging system.
- RestMQ - message queue which uses HTTP as transport.
- Dkron - distributed, fault tolerant job scheduling system.
- KubeMQ - Kubernetes-native messaging platform.
Programming languages.
- Python - programming language that lets you work quickly and integrate systems more effectively.
- Ruby - a dynamic, open source programming language with a focus on simplicity and productivity.
- Go - an open source programming language that makes it easy to build simple, reliable, and efficient software.
Chat and ChatOps.
- Rocket - open source team communication.
- Mattermost - messaging platform that enables secure team collaboration.
- Zulip - real-time chat with an email threading model.
- Riot - a universal secure chat app entirely under your control.
- ChatOps:
Security as code, sensitive credentials and secrets need to be managed, security, maintained and rotated using automation.
- Sops - simple and flexible tool for managing secrets.
- Vault - manage secrets and protect sensitive data.
- Keybase - end-to-end encrypted chat and cloud storage system.
- Vault Secrets Operator - create Kubernetes secrets from Vault for a secure GitOps based workflow.
- Git Secret - a bash-tool to store your private data inside a git repository.
A collection of tools to help with sharing knowledge and telling the story.
- Gitbook - modern documentation format and toolchain using Git and Markdown.
- Docusaurus - easy to maintain open source documentation websites.
- Docsify - a magical documentation site generator.
- MkDocs - project documentation with Markdown.
VPN, routing and firewall.
- OpenVPN - flexible VPN solutions to secure your data communications, whether it's for Internet privacy,
- Pritunl - enterprise Distributed OpenVPN and IPsec Server.
- VyOS - open source network OS that runs on a wide range of hardware, virtual machines, and cloud providers.
- Algo - set up a personal VPN in the cloud.
- Streisand - sets up a new VPN service nearly automatically.
- Freelan - a peer-to-peer, secure, easy-to-setup, multi-platform, open-source, highly-configurable VPN software.
- Sshuttle - transparent proxy server that works as a poor man's VPN.
- SoftEther - An Open-Source Free Cross-platform Multi-protocol VPN Program, as an academic project from University of Tsukuba, under the Apache License 2.0.
- Firezone - Self-hosted VPN server using WireGuard. Supports MFA, SSO, and has easy deployment options.
Books focused on DevOps, DevSecOps and Site Reliability Engineering.
- Effective DevOps: Building a Culture of Collaboration, Affinity, and Tooling at Scale
- Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation
- Hands-On Security in DevOps
- Site Reliability Engineering
- The Site Reliability Workbook
- Infrastructure as Code: Managing Servers in the Cloud
- The DevOps Handbook
Basic understanding and what you should know to become a DevOps Engineer, check the roadmap here.
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