DevOps Tools Ecosystem
Ansible
A configuration management tool to automate IT tasks.
Example: Automating server patching for 50+ Linux servers.
Terraform
An IaC tool to provision and manage cloud resources.
Example: Creating AWS EC2 instances and RDS databases using .tf files.
Git
A version control system for tracking code changes.
Example: Developers collaborating on a single codebase via GitHub.
Jenkins
A CI/CD tool for automating software builds and deployments.
Example: Automating the deployment of a Java application to a Kubernetes cluster.
Docker
A containerization platform to package applications with dependencies.
Example: Running a Python web app in isolated containers across environments.
Kubernetes
An orchestration platform to manage containerized workloads.
Example: Scaling microservices in production during high traffic.
SonarQube
A code quality tool for identifying bugs and vulnerabilities.
Example: Scanning Java code for security issues during CI pipelines.
Trivy
A vulnerability scanner for container images and configurations.
Example: Detecting security flaws in a Docker image before deployment.
Helm
A package manager for Kubernetes applications.
Example: Deploying a pre-configured Nginx ingress controller using Helm charts.
ArgoCD
A GitOps tool for continuous delivery to Kubernetes.
Example: Automating updates to a Kubernetes cluster from a Git repository.
Prometheus
A monitoring tool for collecting and querying metrics.
Example: Monitoring CPU usage of a production database server.
Grafana
A visualization tool for analyzing metrics and logs.
Example: Creating dashboards to monitor app performance from Prometheus data.