As a DevOps engineer you must have asked this question at least once:
How do I learn so many tools?
In this article, I will share the DevOps tools that we've used at Flipt and in previous roles (such as at InfluxDB). These tools are relevant for any modern software project.
Also, if you’re looking to make a DevOps related contribution to an Open Source project, this article will serve as a great source of inspiration for you.
Let’s dive in! 👇
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TL;DR
Tool #1: runatlantis/atlantis
DevOps engineers spend lot of time in figuring how to integrate infrastructure changes seamlessly into the project’s development workflow.
And that’s where Atlantis comes in. It automates terraform workflows within pull requests. As a result it:
- Prevents infrastructure drift
- Enforces platform consistency
- Improves collaboration b/w devs and platform engineers
At Influx we used Atlantis to manage applying our Terraform manifests used to build around 20 Kubernetes clusters across major cloud providers (AWS, GCP and Azure). Our infrastructure team owned our Terraform repositories and gave access to engineers across the organization to contribute via pull-requests in GitHub. Atlantis gave them the confidence and coordination needed to integrate these changes safely into our trunk branch and apply them to our multiple target environments.
Tool #2: argoproj/argo-cd
If you have worked with Kubernetes before, you know how much pain it is to manage app deployments and updates across multiple clusters.
But what if I tell you, there’s an easy way to setup an automation that:
- Streamlines releases
- Reduces manual errors
- Enables faster time-to-market
That would be pretty incredible right?
Argo - which is an open source continuous delivery platform for Kubernetes does that for you.
At Influx we used Argo as our continuous delivery platform. Again we were deploying many applications to around 20 Kubernetes clusters across the three major cloud vendors. Argo helped to unlock trunk based development and continuously ship changes to production environments. Also, it gave us great visibility into the state of our delivery pipelines and their targets
Tool #3: keyval-dev/odigos
Lastly, a super useful tool for all DevOps engineers is Odigos. It allows you to monitor distributed applications using OpenTelemetry and eBPF.
Additionally, Odigos comes with:
- Extreme Performance
- Doesn’t require code changes
- Automatically get traces, metrics and log
And the best part is it’s open source and built with an active community.
Highly recommended tool for your DevOps toolbox.
Wrapping Up
That’s it!
These are some of the top tools that every DevOps engineer should have in their toolkit in 2024.
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Top comments (8)
This is a well-written article! Odigos looks especially cool to me, with the visual display of your services :)
Great list! We're building Digger, a scalable and secure atlantis alternative. Would love your thoughts on the tool too :)
We just created a channel 'awesome-open-source' in our Discord to shout out new and awesome open-source tools like Digger. Feel free to come by and post a link! flipt.io/discord
Reall nice descriptions and very concise at the same time! Thanks for the write up :)
Love the way you structured this article!
Shameless plug for Kurtosis, aiming to make it easier to build, share, and run containerized applications! Would love your thoughts, will def drop by the discord as well :)
Thanks @dpark ! Kurtosis looks slick, will definitely check it out! Also love that it's written in Go!
Please feel free to submit it to our #awesome-open-source channel in the Flipt Discord!
Appreciate it!! Definitely will do :)
esProc SPL is also great, and it can implement a lot of clever algorithms that SQL did not have before, and it is very fast