50 Great DevOps Tools You May Not Be Using

Dev & DevOps Knowledge
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DevOps is about seamless collaboration between Development and Operations, and you need to have the right tools in your environment to help make this possible. As everyone knows, DevOps covers a lot of functional areas, so knowing what tools to adopt can be a challenge.

Today’s market offers a huge array of both open source and proprietary tools, and together they can answer nearly every need throughout the DevOps lifecycle from Planning to Deployment to Monitoring and ongoing Improvement. When these are coupled with a comprehensive security solution like Threat Stack’s Cloud Security Platform®, they can also help to enable security and compliance: It’s a matter of understanding what each tool offers, matching the right ones to your requirements, and investing the time needed to train your team to use them to their highest potential.

To help you make your way through the almost endless list of tools out there, we’ve used this post to compile a list of 50 great DevOps tools that you might want to consider when you’re looking for a solution that will help streamline, automate, or improve specific aspects of your workflow. Read more “50 Great DevOps Tools You May Not Be Using”

DevOpsing at Home

Dev & DevOps Knowledge, Uncategorized
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I remember the days when SysAdmins bragged about server uptimes that were sometimes measured in years. I have been out of the SysAdmin world for quite a while, focusing on software development, and somewhere along the way, a small revolution happened. Here at Threat Stack, our DevOps team embraces immutable infrastructure, which allows us to spin down problematic servers and spin up brand new clean instances in a matter of minutes. Impressed with this approach, I started to look for a way to bring some of these concepts home. Read more “DevOpsing at Home”

How to Use Ops Tools for Security and Security Tools for Ops

Dev & DevOps Knowledge
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Investing in SecOps doesn’t just mean hiring folks who know how to blend together software development, IT operations, and security skillsets. It also doesn’t just mean telling your DevOps team to run secure or scolding your security team into moving fast enough to keep up with continuous deployment.

Truly committing to SecOps means investing in tools that can do double (or triple) duty — helping you not only release code continuously but ensure that everything from your back-end infrastructure to your customer-facing applications is 100% secure. It means investing in tools that make meeting both DevOps and security best practices simple and straightforward.

As DevOps expands to include more security functions and security evolves to be more agile, it’s never been more important (or economical) to be able to use operational tools for security and security tools for operations. DevOps teams want software that can integrate critical functions of security, like alerting, directly into their current processes. Security teams want tools that let them seamlessly interact with DevOps.

Here’s what that should look like. Read more “How to Use Ops Tools for Security and Security Tools for Ops”