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Choosing the Right SRE Tools
In this blog, we’ll talk about what to look for in an SRE tool, and how they’ll help you on your journey to reliability excellence.
Implementing SRE practices and culture can be challenging. Fortunately, there are a variety of tools for each aspect of SRE: monitoring, SLOs and error budgeting, incident management, incident retrospectives, alerting, chaos engineering, and more. In this blog, we’ll talk about what to look for in an SRE tool, and how they’ll help you on your journey to reliability excellence.
Monitoring Tools
At the heart of all SRE decision-making is data. Without logging latency, availability, and other reliability metrics throughout your system, you’ll have no way of knowing where to invest your development efforts. Several monitoring tools such as AppDynamics, Datadog, Grafana, and Prometheus are available to help collect this data and display it in efficient ways.
Monitoring can be broken down into four main categories:
- Resource monitoring: reports on how servers are running with metrics such as RAM usage, CPU load, and remaining disk space.
- Network monitoring: reports on incoming and outgoing traffic which can be broken down into the frequency and size of specific requests.
- Application performance monitoring: reports on the performance of services by sending internal requests to them and monitoring metrics such as response time, completeness of response, and data freshness.
- Third-party component monitoring: reports on the health and availability of third-party services integrated into your system.
To get a full picture of your service, you’ll want to incorporate elements of all four of these categories. Most monitoring tools will provide options for multiple categories. Look for ones that integrate well with your existing tool stack, as you’ll need the monitoring tool to be able to gather and interpret data directly from your existing sources.
Try to find tools that can generate visualizations and reports that your team will find useful. For example, if you’re trying to see which services generate the most network traffic, look for a tool that can create pie charts of overall network usage.
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Choosing the Right SRE Tools
In this blog, we’ll talk about what to look for in an SRE tool, and how they’ll help you on your journey to reliability excellence.
Implementing SRE practices and culture can be challenging. Fortunately, there are a variety of tools for each aspect of SRE: monitoring, SLOs and error budgeting, incident management, incident retrospectives, alerting, chaos engineering, and more. In this blog, we’ll talk about what to look for in an SRE tool, and how they’ll help you on your journey to reliability excellence.
Monitoring Tools
At the heart of all SRE decision-making is data. Without logging latency, availability, and other reliability metrics throughout your system, you’ll have no way of knowing where to invest your development efforts. Several monitoring tools such as AppDynamics, Datadog, Grafana, and Prometheus are available to help collect this data and display it in efficient ways.
Monitoring can be broken down into four main categories:
- Resource monitoring: reports on how servers are running with metrics such as RAM usage, CPU load, and remaining disk space.
- Network monitoring: reports on incoming and outgoing traffic which can be broken down into the frequency and size of specific requests.
- Application performance monitoring: reports on the performance of services by sending internal requests to them and monitoring metrics such as response time, completeness of response, and data freshness.
- Third-party component monitoring: reports on the health and availability of third-party services integrated into your system.
To get a full picture of your service, you’ll want to incorporate elements of all four of these categories. Most monitoring tools will provide options for multiple categories. Look for ones that integrate well with your existing tool stack, as you’ll need the monitoring tool to be able to gather and interpret data directly from your existing sources.
Try to find tools that can generate visualizations and reports that your team will find useful. For example, if you’re trying to see which services generate the most network traffic, look for a tool that can create pie charts of overall network usage.
#tools #devops #sre #tools and methods #tools 2020
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50+ Useful DevOps Tools
The article comprises both very well established tools for those who are new to the DevOps methodology.
What Is DevOps?
The DevOps methodology, a software and team management approach defined by the portmanteau of Development and Operations, was first coined in 2009 and has since become a buzzword concept in the IT field.
DevOps has come to mean many things to each individual who uses the term as DevOps is not a singularly defined standard, software, or process but more of a culture. Gartner defines DevOps as:
“DevOps represents a change in IT culture, focusing on rapid IT service delivery through the adoption of agile, lean practices in the context of a system-oriented approach. DevOps emphasizes people (and culture), and seeks to improve collaboration between operations and development teams. DevOps implementations utilize technology — especially automation tools that can leverage an increasingly programmable and dynamic infrastructure from a life cycle perspective.”
As you can see from the above definition, DevOps is a multi-faceted approach to the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), but its main underlying strength is how it leverages technology and software to streamline this process. So with the right approach to DevOps, notably adopting its philosophies of co-operation and implementing the right tools, your business can increase deployment frequency by a factor of 30 and lead times by a factor of 8000 over traditional methods, according to a CapGemini survey.
The Right Tools for the Job
This list is designed to be as comprehensive as possible. The article comprises both very well established tools for those who are new to the DevOps methodology and those tools that are more recent releases to the market — either way, there is bound to be a tool on here that can be an asset for you and your business. For those who already live and breathe DevOps, we hope you find something that will assist you in your growing enterprise.
With such a litany of tools to choose from, there is no “right” answer to what tools you should adopt. No single tool will cover all your needs and will be deployed across a variety of development and Operational teams, so let’s break down what you need to consider before choosing what tool might work for you.
- Plan and collaborate: Before you even begin the SDLC, your business needs to have a cohesive idea of what tools they’ll need to implement across your teams. There are even DevOps tools that can assist you with this first crucial step.
- Build: Here you want tools that create identically provisioned environments. The last you need is to hear “But it works for me on my computer”
- Automation: This has quickly become a given in DevOps, but automation will always drastically increase production over manual methods.
- Continuous Integration: Tools need to provide constant and immediate feedback, several times a day but not all integrations are implemented equally, will the tool you select be right for the job?
- Deployment: Deployments need to be kept predictable, smooth, and reliable with minimal risks, automation will also play a big part in this process.
With all that in mind, I hope this selection of tools will aid you as your business continues to expand into the DevOps lifestyle.
Tools Categories List:
Continuous Integration and Delivery
Infrastructure As Code
1. AWS CloudFormation
AWS CloudFormation is an absolute must if you are currently working, or planning to work, in the AWS Cloud. CloudFormation allows you to model your AWS infrastructure and provision all your AWS resources swiftly and easily. All of this is done within a JSON or YAML template file and the service comes with a variety of automation features ensuring your deployments will be predictable, reliable, and manageable.
Link: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/
2. Azure Resource Manager
Azure Resource Manager (ARM) is Microsoft’s answer to an all-encompassing IAC tool. With its ARM templates, described within JSON files, Azure Resource Manager will provision your infrastructure, handle dependencies, and declare multiple resources via a single template.
Link: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/features/resource-manager/
3. Google Cloud Deployment Manager
Much like the tools mentioned above, Google Cloud Deployment Manager is Google’s IAC tool for the Google Cloud Platform. This tool utilizes YAML for its config files and JINJA2 or PYTHON for its templates. Some of its notable features are synchronistic deployment and ‘preview’, allowing you an overhead view of changes before they are committed.
Link: https://cloud.google.com/deployment-manager/
4. Terraform
Terraform is brought to you by HashiCorp, the makers of Vault and Nomad. Terraform is vastly different from the above-mentioned tools in that it is not restricted to a specific cloud environment, this comes with increased benefits for tackling complex distributed applications without being tied to a single platform. And much like Google Cloud Deployment Manager, Terraform also has a preview feature.
Link: https://www.terraform.io/
5. Chef
Chef is an ideal choice for those who favor CI/CD. At its heart, Chef utilizes self-described recipes, templates, and cookbooks; a collection of ready-made templates. Cookbooks allow for consistent configuration even as your infrastructure rapidly scales. All of this is wrapped up in a beautiful Ruby-based DSL pie.
Link: https://www.chef.io/products/chef-infra/
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CircleCI vs Jenkins: Choosing The Right CI CD Tool | LambdaTest
With so many CI/CD tools with amazing features available, you’re bound to get confused! Find out what’s the right fit for you between CircleCI and Jenkins.
#devops #circleci #jenkins #choosing #right #lambdatest
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Top 12 Most Used Tools By Developers In 2020
rameworks and libraries can be said as the fundamental building blocks when developers build software or applications. These tools help in opting out the repetitive tasks as well as reduce the amount of code that the developers need to write for a particular software.
Recently, the Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2020 surveyed nearly 65,000 developers, where they voted their go-to tools and libraries. Here, we list down the top 12 frameworks and libraries from the survey that are most used by developers around the globe in 2020.
(The libraries are listed according to their number of Stars in GitHub)
1| TensorFlow
**GitHub Stars: **147k
Rank: 5
**About: **Originally developed by researchers of Google Brain team, TensorFlow is an end-to-end open-source platform for machine learning. It has a comprehensive, flexible ecosystem of tools, libraries, and community resources that lets researchers push the state-of-the-art research in ML. It allows developers to easily build and deploy ML-powered applications.
Know more here.
2| Flutter
**GitHub Stars: **98.3k
**Rank: **9
About: Created by Google, Flutter is a free and open-source software development kit (SDK) which enables fast user experiences for mobile, web and desktop from a single codebase. The SDK works with existing code and is used by developers and organisations around the world.
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8 Fun AI Tools Available Online
“AI for fun” — a phrase that we commonly don’t hear in the industry. Artificial intelligence has always been considered a revolutionary technology that has emerged to solve complex real-world problems like high-level computation, omitting manual labour, or data-driven optimisation. However, with its endless possibilities, there are many applications of AI that make this technology more accessible to the average layman person or kids at home.
To get people’s head around this sophisticated technology developers all around the world are continuously developing some fun AI tools that can be easily accessed online to get hands-on. Not only are these AI tools fun but also provide a good understanding of this technology to the users.
Here is a list of 10 exciting artificial intelligence tools that are available online for anyone to have fun with.
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