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Best tools for DevOps engineers
33 tools in our directory are marked as best for DevOps engineers, from 8 sections: DevOps (16), Monitoring & Observability (4), Dev Utilities (3), Security (3) and 4 more sections.
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Ansible
Open source IT automation for provisioning and configuration
Infrastructure as CodeAgentless IT automation
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Cast AI
Cuts Kubernetes cloud costs by rightsizing and consolidating nodes
Cost ManagementAutomated Kubernetes savings
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Consul
Service discovery and service mesh for networked applications
Networking ProxiesService discovery and mesh
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Flagger
Automated canary and blue-green releases for Kubernetes
Release FlagsProgressive delivery operator
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golang-migrate
Command line tool and Go library for database migrations
Migration and BackupDatabase migrations in Go
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Freemium
IBM Kubecost
Kubernetes cost monitoring and allocation for each team
Cost ManagementKubernetes cost monitoring
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jq
Command line processor for filtering and transforming JSON data
CLI ToolsCommand line JSON processor
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K9s
Terminal interface for browsing and managing Kubernetes clusters
KubernetesTerminal UI for Kubernetes
Freemium
KodeKloud
Hands-on DevOps, cloud and AI courses with real practice labs
AI Cloud SecurityDevOps courses and labs
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Kustomize
Customizes Kubernetes YAML manifests without templates or forks
KubernetesTemplate free manifests
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lazydocker
Terminal UI for managing Docker containers and compose projects
Local DevTerminal UI for Docker
Curated
Liquibase
Database change management with policies and CI/CD pipelines
Migration and BackupDatabase change management
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NetBird
Open source zero trust network access built on WireGuard
Network DefenseOpen source zero trust network
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OpenBao
Open source fork of HashiCorp Vault for managing secrets
Identity and SecretsOpen source secrets vault
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OpenTofu
Open source infrastructure as code, a Terraform-compatible tool
Infrastructure CodeOpen source Terraform fork
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osquery
Ask questions about your computers using SQL queries
Security LoggingSQL powered endpoint data
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Packer
Builds identical machine images for many platforms from one template
Infrastructure CodeBuild machine images
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Parseable
Open source logs, metrics and traces on object storage with SQL
Logs and SearchLightweight log analytics
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Podman
Daemonless container engine for running and building containers
KubernetesDaemonless container engine
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Skaffold
Rebuilds and redeploys containers to Kubernetes as you change code
Local DevContinuous Kubernetes dev
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SOPS
Encrypts secret values in config files, keeping keys visible
Config SecretsEncrypted secrets in files
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Step CI
Open source API testing framework with YAML workflows and CI support
Mocking TestingAPI testing and monitoringInactive
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Telegraf
Open source agent that collects metrics, logs and other data
Infra MonitoringMetrics collection agent
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TruffleHog
Open source scanner for leaked secrets, with live verification
Code SecurityFind and verify leaked secrets
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Uptrace
OpenTelemetry traces, metrics and logs in one self-hostable tool
APM PlatformsOpenTelemetry APM and tracing
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