DevOps Automation Tools
It is vital to automate all the testing processes and configure them to achieve speed and agility. This process is known as DevOps automation.
The difficulty faced in large DevOps Team that maintain large huge IT infrastructure can be classified briefly into six different categories.
Infrastructure Automation
Configuration Management
Deployment Automation
Performance Management
Log Management
Monitoring.
Let's see a few tools in each of these categories and how they solve the pain points–
Infrastructure Automation
Amazon Web Services (AWS): Being cloud service you do not need to be physically present in the data center. Also, they are easy to scale on-demand. There are no up-front hardware costs. It can be configured to provision more servers based on traffic automatically.
Configuration Management
Chef: It is a useful DevOps tool for achieving speed, scale, and consistency. It can be used to ease out complex tasks and perform configuration management. With this tool, DevOps team can avoid making changes across ten thousand servers. Instead, they need to make changes in one place which is automatically reflected in other servers.
Deployment Automation
Jenkins: This tool facilitates continuous integration and testing. It helps to integrate project changes more easily by quickly finding issues as soon as a built is deployed.
Log Management
Splunk: This is a tool solves the issues like aggregating, storing, and analyzing all logs in one place.
Performance Management
App Dynamic: It is DevOps tool which offers real-time performance monitoring. The data collected by this tool helps developers to debug when issues occur.
Monitoring
Nagios: It is also important to make sure people are notified when infrastructure and related services go down. Nagios is one such tool for this purpose which helps DevOps teams to find and correct problems.
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