Tools & Competitors

Tools

• Ansible
• Obviously Chef & Puppet
• SaltStack, interesting Python-based take on configuration management.
• Fabric, Python based orchestration tool.
• Vagrant, GUI-less VM. Useful to spin off and share server VMs.
• Logstash, logs collection.
• Rundeck, orchestration tool (ugly as hell though).
• Nanite
• ControlTier
• VladTheDeployer
• LiveRebel, application release for Java - integration in various CI
• Rerun, command runner.
• Chronos, job scheduler by Airbnb.
• Whenjobs, job scheduler.
• StatsD

Food for thoughts

• Fluentd: The Missing Log Collector
• Interesting discussions around Chef, Puppet and other conf mgt tools for the release of Chef 11: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5197389
• Some startup bitching about the price and architecture of Heroku; http://rapgenius.com/James-somers-herokus-ugly-secret-lyrics, and the answer from Heroku got interesting comments validating one more time our approach; http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5230602.
• http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4232087 destroys the vision of the guys behind commando.io, but rebuke of DIY approach at http://www.sys-con.com/node/2207848.
• DevOps reading list
• The 10 Commandments of Logging
• Interesting issue about Firebase, something we could easily replicate with devo.ps http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4945932
• A few resources on automation and build:
  • http://server.dzone.com/articles/leaner-release-platforms, especially:
    • http://www.urbancode.com/html/resources/white-papers/Build_and_Deployment_Automation_for_the_Lean_Economy/Build_and_Deploy_for_the_Lean_Economy.pdf
    • http://www.techwell.com/2012/12/how-lean-your-development-platform
  • http://devops.com/2012/12/10/approaches-to-application-release-automation/
• Graphing thoughts:
  • the root of cubism; how to display + and - within a one liner

Competitors

• Toolchain:
  • MaestroDev, DevOps toolchain dangerously close, but relies on integration of other old/heavy tech.
  • UrbanCode Devops Platform, DevOps toolchain dangerously close, but relies on integration of other old/heavy tech
  • DevOps accelerator, bashed by the guys at DevOps Cafe back from PuppetConf.
• Cloud management:
  • Scalr (OSS)
  • Rightscale
  • Eucalyptus
• PaaS:
  • Cloud Foundry, private/OSS PaaS solution from VMware.
  • Heroku
  • dotCloud
  • Nodejitsu
  • AppFog
  • MongoHQ, MongoDB as a service.
• Configuration management:
  • Opscode
  • Puppet Labs
• Orchestration:
  • Commando.io, Web based orchestration tool.
• Release management:
  • Thougthworks Go
• Logging & Monitoring:
  • Cloudera
  • CloudKick
  • CopperEgg
  • Stackify
  • DataDog
  • Appfirst
  • Airbrake, error logging