Periodic Table of DevOps Tools (Part-1)

Periodic Table of DevOps Tools

What is the DevOps Periodic Table?

It’s a framework where various DevOps tools are categorized and arranged in groups and categories based on their characteristics or roles within the DevOps methodology.

The main aim of the DevOps periodic table is to provide a visual representation that helps the DevOps teams understand the interconnected nature of DevOps practices.

In other words, it’s a grouping of DevOps tools arranged according to their abilities and costs in various categories. Some of the important and well-known DevOps tools include Jenkins, Docker, Git, Kubernetes, Puppet, Ansible, Gradle,Docker,Github etc to name a few.

The DevOps periodic table showcases the DevOps tools list across various categories ordered by their functionality and also the pricing model (Open Source, Free, Freemium, Paid, Enterprise). 

Every single element in the Periodic table shows a general aspect of DevOps as like Automation, Collaboration,Continuous Integration, Monitoring, Security etc. These all elements of periodic table are merge and interact with each other to build an overall approach to DevOps (Development & IT Operational )

 

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In the above image of the DevOps Periodic table, you can see that all the elements or DevOps tools are well arranged and categorized. Some of the tools here are very popular in the market, while others are less popular, but all tools have their own features that are beneficial for users.

It provides the visuals to the users that support the entire team as well the individuals to get to know the various components of DevOps and how these particle element relate to each other and this will also help to improve  their practices and processes.

Classification of tools based on the DevOps Periodic table

The periodic table combines different DevOps tools from A to Z, categorizes them, and visualizes several tools. Let us try to understand the outline of different categories.

A

• AIOps Tools

1. Loglizer
2. ScienceLogic
3. Ignio AIOps
4. IBM Turbonomic
5. Moogsoft

C

• Continuous Integration (CI) Tools

These CI tools are crucial DevOps tools used for automation, testing, building, and integration. Selecting reliable integration techniques is essential to quickly identify mistakes. Some of the continuous integration tools include:

1. Circle CI
2. Jenkins
3. Teamcity
4. Bamboo
5. GitLab CI/CD
6. Travis CI

• Continuous Delivery/Deployment (CD) Tools

These tools automate application deployment and delivery pipelines. These type of tools are used to automate and streamline the process of delivering software updates and change to production environment. Some of the important CD tools are:

1. Spinnaker
2. ArgoCD
3. Jenkins X
4. Harness
5. Drone

• Configuration Management Tools

Configuration management tools play a vital role in the DevOps lifecycle, automating and managing configuration and infrastructure changes. These tools help users regulate all changes in a simple and comfortable manner. Some important configuration management tools include:

1. Ansible
2. Puppet
3. Chef
4. SaltStack
5. Terraform

• Containerization & Orchestration

Containerization tools deploy, manage, and package applications using containers. Containerization and Orchestration tools have revolutionized the way teams build & manage the applications. They allow more flexibility, reliability & scalability just by reducing the problems arises with the traditional deployment methods. Some important containerization tools are:

1. Docker
2. Kubernetes
3. Rocket
4. Codefresh
5. Helm
6. Mesos
7. Rancher
8. GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine)
9. Docker Enterprise

• Collaboration & Communication

These tools facilitate team collaboration, project management, and communication. They are also beneficial for individual users. Some collaboration and communication tools are:

1. Slack
2. Microsoft Teams
3. JIRA
4. Confluence 

• Cloud and Infrastructure Platform

These tools handle cloud resources and infrastructure. These tools permit the organization to manage, provision & scale their application and infrastructure efficiently & the consider tools like:

1. AWS (Amazon Web Services)
2. GCP (Google Cloud Platform)
3. Microsoft Azure

D

• Deployment Tools

1. Capistrano
2. Juju
3. GoCD
4. Octopus Deploy
5. IBM UrbanCode Deploy
6. AWS CodeDeploy
7. DeployBot
8. Shippable

• Database Automation Tools

1. DbVisualizer
2. pganalyze
3. Toad Edge 
4. Kosli
5. Pachyderm
6. Liquibase

I

• Infrastructure as Code (IAC)

These tools manage infrastructure using code. These tools in DevOps empower organization to manage infrastructure efficiently, increase the agility & automate provisioning of their operations while handing errors and improve the collaboration among development and operations teams. These IAC tools choice is often depends on the specific cloud provider or technology utilized by the organization. Some IAC tools include:

1. CloudFormation
2. Terraform
3. Pulumi
4. Ansible

L

• Logging DevOps Tools

1. Papertrail
2. Scalyr
3. Fluentd
4. Sentry
5. Logstash
6. Loggly
7. Graylog

M

• Monitoring Tools

 Monitoring tools continuously track applications in the production phase, ensuring their performance and functionality. These tools are very important components for DevOps  practices and provide the real time visibility into the performance, availability, & health of application and infrastructure. These tools helps the DevOps team to identify , performance and optimize system and guaranteed the experience of users.  Some monitoring tools are:

1. Nagios
2. Datadog
3. New Relic
4. Grafana
5. Prometheus

O

• Observability Tools

1. Datadog
2. Dynatrace
3. New Relic
4. Sentry
5. Signoz
6. Sumo Logic
7. Splunk

S

• Source Code Management

The first stage of the DevOps lifecycle is source code, which provides the tools to generate and manage code. Here, tools are categorized for collaboration and performance control on source code. These categorized tools provide insights into which changes were made for improvement. Some of the important tools for source code management are as follows:

1. Github
2. Gitlab
3. Artfactory
4. Bitbucket
5. Compuware ISPW
6. Perforce Helixcore

• Security and Compliance Tools

These tools ensure security and compliance throughout the DevOps lifecycle. These tool plays an important role in ensuring, privacy & regulatory compliance of systems, data and applications within an organization.   Some of the tools include:

1. Twistlock
2. SonarQube
3. Anchore
4. Aqua Security

Conclusion:

When someone starts learning DevOps tools and technologies, they get overwhelmed and also confused with the numerous tools that accomplished similar tasks, or nearly the same task without a clear opinion on the best toolchain and the workflow. Each one is Free to opt for and select his favourite tool from the bouquet and also market it as the best in the category.

The DevOps periodic table is a small attempt to lessen this chaos and confusion by grouping different Devops tools across various categories in an ordered alphabetic list , from A to Z.

To learn more about DevOps periodic table in detail, do connect with us and stay tuned for our upcoming blog.