Tools and Technologies An Aspiring DevOps Engineer Should Know: A Comprehensive Guide
DevOps role has to do more with managing infrastructure, automating tasks, and ensuring that software is delivered quickly and efficiently. To succeed in this role, DevOps engineers must be familiar with various tools and technologies.
In this blog post, we will see essential tools and technologies a DevOps engineer should know.
DevOps Tech Stack:
Version Control Systems: Git, SVN, and Mercurial are essential tools for managing code changes. DevOps engineers must be proficient in at least one of these systems to manage changes, collaborate and keep track of code versions.
Configuration Management: Ansible, Chef, and Puppet are Configuration management tools that allow automating the provisioning and configuration of infrastructure. These tools enable engineers to manage infrastructure as code, ensuring that deployments are consistent and repeatable.
Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD): Spacelift, Jenkins, CircleCI, and GitLab-CI tools allow to automate the software build, test, and deployment processes. These tools integrate with version control systems and enable you to deliver software quickly.
Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift Containerization technologies help to deploy applications in a portable and scalable manner in a variety of environments.
Cloud Platforms: AWS, Azure, GCP, IBM Cloud, and Oracle Cloud are the Cloud platforms that provide a scalable and flexible infrastructure for deploying applications. These platforms provide a variety of services, including computing, storage, and networking, enabling you to build and deploy applications quickly and cost-effectively.
Monitoring and Logging: Prometheus, Grafana, and Nagios are monitoring and logging tools to monitor the performance and health of applications and infrastructure. These tools provide real-time insights into system performance.
Collaboration and Project Management: JIRA, Asana, Trello, and Slack Collaboration and project management tools let you collaborate with other team members to work together efficiently and effectively, ensuring that software is delivered on time and within budget.
Scripting: Python, Bash, and PowerShell Scripting languages to automate tasks and build tools for creating automation scripts and tools, that helps you to work more efficiently.
Infrastructure as a Code (IaaC): Terraform, Spacelift, CloudFormation, Ansible, Chef, and Puppet tools to manage infrastructure as code. With these tools you can manage your infrastructure in a declarative manner, making it easy to deploy and manage in one click.
Operating System: DevOps focuses on collaboration, communication, and automation, regardless of the operating system being used. However, Linux is a popular operating system among DevOps engineers because it is open-source, more secure, and has a big community contributing to its development. Linux is also used extensively in cloud computing and containerization, which are essential aspects of DevOps.
Continuous Integration and Delivery Tool: Spacelift is a sophisticated and compliant infrastructure delivery platform for Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, Kubernetes, and Ansible.
Spacelift is a cloud-agnostic collaborative CI/CD platform for managing infrastructure provisioning workflows. It supports popular IaC tools like Terraform and Pulumi, as well as cloud-specific IaC features like AWS CloudFormation and Azure ARM templates. Spacelift provides automated workflows, GitOps native support, and features like drift detection, guardrails, collaboration, and auditing.
Specialized CI/CD platform for Infrastructure | Spacelift
Summary:
DevOps engineers must be familiar with various tools and technologies and usages specific tools will vary as per project needs. So one must start learning them strategically. Starting with an operating system is the first step towards this DevOps journey. As Linux is the most popular operating system amongst DevOps engineers, You must master it!
See you on my next blog with "Linux for DevOps" and will keep sharing my learnings and knowledge here with you.
Thank you,
Chaitannyaa Gaikwad