DevOps can be defined as the collaborative practice between operations and development engineers throughout the entire life cycle working with Agile and Lean methodologies. DevOps fully supports seamless collaborative processes between teams to increase efficiency and productivity during a project.
DevOps also supports service-oriented solutions and helps businesses deliver software applications and services at a fast pace, increasing productivity levels by improving product delivery through an agile infrastructure.
The right tools for DevOps
There are several types of tools that DevOps professionals work with on a daily basis, thus becoming more productive and effective. Let's take a look at the most popular ones at the moment and all the benefits they have to offer:
Jenkins
This automation tool is very popular for being open source. It allows the user to automate software development processes, as well as facilitating CI/CD and testing before and during release.
It is a tool that facilitates the supervision of tasks and the integration of changes. Also, Jenkins can support up to 100 plugins. Among its other benefits is that it is a stand-alone program written in java and works on Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Docker
Docker is one of the most used technological tools in the world. More than 11 million developers make daily use of this software countering technology. DevOps specifically make use of Docker to easily package and run code.
One of the greatest benefits of Docker is that it eliminates repetitive configuration activities and encourages teamwork. Also, the team ensures that they have the same development environment throughout the DevOps process, through execution and production.
CircleCI
CircleCI is one of the most effective and popular CI/CD tools today. CI/CD refers to continuous integration and delivery/continuous deployment. Simply put, it is common DevOps practice to make code changes frequently and safely.
CircleCI manages all sources of change so teams can have confidence in their code. That confidence is the foundation of speed. CircleCI focuses on detecting any flaws in the code and then makes the application or website run effectively.
Bamboo
Another of the continuous integration tools that every DevOps team should know and handle perfectly. Created by Atlassian, Bamboo is available in two versions, cloud and server, giving it a versatility appreciated by modern development teams.
Assists DevOps teams in creating build plans, setting triggers, and assigning agents for critical project builds and developments. It has an intuitive user interface, as well as being able to integrate with other Tools such as Git, Mercurial, JIRA, Bitbucket and Crucible.
Git
Git was initially designed and developed by Linus Torvalds for Linux kernel development in 2005. It is a distributed revision control system that emphasizes speed, data integrity, and support for distributed and non-linear workflows.
As with most other distributed version control systems, and unlike most client-server systems, each Git working directory is a full repository with full version history and tracking capabilities, independently access to the network or a central server. Like the Linux kernel, Git is free software distributed under the GNU General Public License version 2.
Kubernetes
Developed by Google and later donated to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, Kubernetes is a portable, extensible, and open source platform for managing containerized workloads and services that operates at the container level. Some of the most recognized Kubernetes technologies are Amazon, Azure, Digital Ocean, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), and Red Hat. Kubernetes can meet your technology needs if your application uses a microservice architecture, suffers from slow development and deployment, or is looking to reduce infrastructure costs.
These are the most important tools for any DevOps team today. At Rootstack, our experts know how to use this set of tools and many others when applying this methodology in their technological projects. Contact us so that we can start working together, integrating the technological trends of the moment into your company.
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