Everything about Web and Network Monitoring
Everything about Web and Network Monitoring
If your organization is going to succeed at DevOps then investing in automation tools is critical. Automation makes your infrastructure faster and more efficient while also providing shareable and traceable paths. Fortunately, a considerable number of new open source and enterprise tools have emerged in recent years that can automate your build, test, and development processes and assist with configuration management.
Let’s continue where we left off in our strategies discussion by looking at how automation can provide business value, as well as some of the top tools on the market today.
Automate, Automate, Automate!
The benefit of automating the testing and deployment process hardly needs explanation. With just a few clicks a continuous integration tool will run a series of unit tests, deploy the code to a new server, and then carry out a series of integration tests. The obvious takeaway is that continuous integration automation reduces cost and increases efficiency so that developers can spend their time writing code instead of tracking and fixing bugs.
Developing the ability to automate an organization’s infrastructure may seem like the most daunting of tasks, and it’s at this point that companies usually become their own worst enemy. There are significant numbers of automation tools on the market now that can help make your build, test, monitoring, and deployment process efficient and effective.
The following represents a list of over 25 of the most notable DevOps platforms on the market:
AnsibleWorks: provides IT orchestration engine that makes applications and systems easier to deploy
AppFirst: delivers SaaS-based application monitoring dashboard for full-stack visibility into systems, applications, and business metrics
Atlassian: offers a number of DevOps tools including Bamboo, which connects issues, commits, test results, and deploys so the whole picture is available to your entire product team
Capistrano: open source remote server automation and deployment tool written in Ruby
CA Technogies: offers a suite of enterprise multi-release solutions to enable continuous delivery across the application lifecycle
Fabric: open source Python library and command-line tool for streamlining the use of SSH for application deployment or systems administration tasks
Gigaspace: company’s Cloudify helps to setup, deploy, monitor, auto-repair, and scale applications
Inedo: company’s BuildMaster solution provides release management, automatic deployment, and continuous integration solutions for the enterprise
Jenkins: one of the most popular automated continuous integration service platforms available today. It’s open source, easily extendible, and supported by over 800 plugins
Kiuwan: cloud-based measuring and analysis solution
Leroy: new fast, lean-threaded free deployment automation engine written in C++ that helps make software deployment and configuration management more streamlined and centralized
MaestroDev: provides continuous delivery solutions in a multi-source DevOps environment
MidVision: provides application release automation software and management solutions across complex multi-tier environments
New Relic : real-time web and mobile app monitoring with extensive plugins for PaaS/cloud services, caching, database, web servers, and queuing
Opscode: maker of Chef, an automation platform that transforms infrastructure into code
Puppet Labs : open source configuration management ecosystem
RightScale: offers deployment, continuous build, test, and monitoring services for the Cloud
SaltStack: open source software for configuration management, infrastructure automation, and cloud orchestration
Sauce Labs: leading platform for Selenium testing, manual testing, and JavaScript unit testing of web and mobile apps
Serena Software: provides process-based solutions for managing and automating application development, DevOps, and IT operations
SmartFrog: open source Java-based software framework for configuring, deploying, and managing distributed software systems
Solar Winds: provider of IT infrastructure management software including DevOps
SonarSource: provides applications and services for continuous inspection of code quality
Stackdriver: monitoring-as-a-service solution that uses advanced analytics to proactively identify performance issues and bottlenecks within distributed applications
TeamCity: all-in-one, extensible, Java-based continuous integration server, which is supported in other frameworks and languages by 100 ready to use plugins
UrbanCode: improves time to market and overall quality through enterprise build and deployment automation
XebiaLabs: enterprise-level build, deployment, provisioning, and delivery automation
In the final part of this series we’ll pull together the main takeaways we’ve learned so far into a set of best practices that can guide your DevOps strategy moving forward.
