DevOps & CI/CD

Docker is an open platform for developing, shipping, and running applications using containerization technology.

✦ Best for devops teams and developers

Ansible is an IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. It automates everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems.

✦ Best for small to medium devops teams

Uptime Kuma is a self-hosted uptime and status page that allows you to monitor your websites and applications. It provides a simple and easy-to-use interface to create and manage your status pages.

✦ Best for small to medium-sized devops teams

Opendevops is a cloud management platform that provides enterprise multi-cloud, global one-stop DevOps, automation, and open-source solutions. It offers a comprehensive platform for automating operations, managing multiple clouds, and streamlining DevOps processes.

✦ Best for large-scale multi-cloud it teams

DBLab enables database branching and thin cloning for any Postgres database, empowering DB testing in CI/CD. This optimizes database-related costs while improving time-to-market and software quality. DBLab is designed to streamline database development and testing, making it an essential tool for developers and DevOps teams.

✦ Best for postgres devops teams

Prometheus is a free software application used for event monitoring and alerting. It records real-time metrics in a time series database (allowing for high dimensionality) built using a HTTP pull model, with flexible queries and real-time alerting. The project is written in Go and licensed under the Apache 2 license, with source code available on GitHub.

✦ Best for large-scale devops and sre teams

Harness Open Source is an end-to-end developer platform that streamlines the development process. It offers Source Control Management, CI/CD Pipelines, Hosted Developer Environments, and Artifact Registries, making it a comprehensive solution for developers and teams.

✦ Best for ambitious dev teams seeking all-in-one solutions

Istio is an open-source service mesh platform that provides a uniform way to integrate microservices, manage traffic flow, enforce policies, and aggregate telemetry data. It helps developers and operators to manage complex service deployments by providing a set of tools to manage service discovery, traffic management, security, and observability.

✦ Best for complex, multi-cluster microservices deployments

Apache Airflow is an open‑source platform that lets data engineers and scientists define complex workflows as code. Its web‑based UI provides visibility into task execution, logs, and dependencies, making pipeline management transparent and reproducible. Airflow’s extensible architecture supports a wide range of integrations, from cloud providers to version‑control systems, enabling teams to automate data movement, transformation, and orchestration at scale.

✦ Best for data engineers needing custom, code‑first pipeline orchestration

Salt is a powerful configuration management and infrastructure automation engine designed to handle large-scale systems efficiently. It provides high-speed, secure communication channels for remote execution and state management across complex enterprise environments. The platform enables DevOps teams to provision cloud resources, enforce desired-state configurations, and react to real-time events using an event-driven architecture. By combining flexibility with speed, Salt simplifies the orchestration of physical servers, virtual machines, and edge devices.

✦ Best for large-scale devops teams and enterprise environments

StackStorm (aka "IFTTT for Ops") is an event-driven automation platform designed for auto-remediation, incident responses, troubleshooting, deployments, and more. It includes a rules engine, workflow, 160 integration packs with 6000+ actions, and ChatOps.

✦ Best for experienced devops and sre teams

Azure DevOps provides a suite of services that cover the entire software development lifecycle, from agile planning and source control to CI/CD pipelines and artifact management. It integrates tightly with Microsoft Azure and third‑party tools, enabling teams to collaborate efficiently and ship high‑quality code faster.

✦ Best for microsoft-centric teams