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Top Open Source DevOps Tools

· Open Source

DevOps Solutions is the practice of operations and development engineers participating together in the entire service lifecycle, from design through the development process to production support.

Tools that are used in devops

1. Nagios (& Icinga)

Nagios is a monitoring solution that is highly effective because of the large community of contributors who create plugins for the tool. It is used widely by developers.

2. Monit

Monit role is to ensure that any given process on a machine is up and running appropriately. For instance a failure occurs in Apache, Monit will help to restart the Apache process.

3. ELK – Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana

The ELK Stack is the most used common log analytics solution in the modern IT world. It collects logs from the services, applications, networks, tools and servers

4. Consul.io

Consul is a service for discovery and configuration in modern, elastic applications that are built from microservices. These open-source tool makes use of the latest technology in providing internal DNS names for services.

5. Docker

Docker eases configuration management, control issues, and scaling by allowing containers to be moved from one place to another.

6.Collectd/Collectl

Collectd/l is a nifty little tool that gathers and stores statistics about the system on which they run and are much more flexible than other tools. These will allow users to measure the values of multiple system metrics and unlike other log collection tools that are designed to measure specific system parameters.

Conclusion

The modern DevOps world is full of outstanding open source tools. The tools listed here are the best in breed and think they should be included in every DevOps engineer list.