DevOps is more than just a techy-sounding buzzword; it’s a business development trend that IT professionals should be familiar with as more businesses move to this kind of framework.
What are DevOps tools?
Amazon notes that, “DevOps is the combination of cultural philosophies, practices, and tools that increases an organization’s ability to deliver applications and services at high velocity: evolving and improving products at a faster pace than organizations using traditional software development and infrastructure management processes. This speed enables organizations to better serve their customers and compete more effectively in the market. Under a DevOps model, development and operations teams are no longer ‘siloed.’ Sometimes, these two teams are merged into a single team where the engineers work across the entire application lifecycle, from development and test to deployment to operations, and develop a range of skills not limited to a single function.”
The merging of these functions has substantial business benefits, and developing the skills and training to work in this area can be a significant step forward in your career.
Best DevOps tools
What are the best DevOps tools to get familiar with to help you excel in a DevOps career or readily contribute to a DevOps team?
- Slack: Believe it or not, the popular chat and collaboration tool is a powerful DevOps tool. It gives team members a clear insight into the workflow. It also allows developers to collaborate using toolchains in the same space they’re communicating with other maintenance and service members for full transparency and superior communication.
- Ansible: This tool is often featured on best-of lists for DevOps tools. It’s a simple and effective IT orchestration and configuration management tool that helps push new changes within the existing system and configure newly deployed machines. It’s a great tool for businesses looking to lower the costs of infrastructure and quickly scale projects without straining resources.
- GitHub: This is a longstanding favorite of developers. It allows developers to make rapid versions of code and instantly notifies team members to the change. Because it has a branched history of revisions stored in the tool, it also allows for immediate rollback to previous versions in case of error or fallout.
- Sentry: This tool is used by Uber and Microsoft and is useful for error and bug detection. It’s a free tool that supports a host of languages, including Ruby, IOS, JavaScript, and others; plus, it also features inbuilt SDKs for customized support of most languages and frameworks. It continuously scans lines of code and sends notifications if it finds an error or problem; when it highlights the problem, it offers a choice of possible solutions that can be incorporated in a click.
All of these tools are popular, powerful options that help DevOps teams do their best work. Aspiring and current developers should pay attention to these tools to grow their careers.
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