Wednesday, March 16, 2016

5 Essential Continuous Intergation Tools



A lot has been said about continuous integration. Here is our 5c. If you are just going to try it out or seriously researching going CI, you might want some points on tools you will need. So we compiled an article for you with shortlist of the most useful tools for continuous integration.



Jenkins


Everyone knows Jenkins. It is a hardcore, open-source continuous integration server. Mostly it is used for Java projects development. But Jenkins can also work with some .NET version control systems what makes it well-suited for .Net projects as well. With Jenkins you will enjoy a robust developer community, easy installation and more than 400 plugins for high customization.



TeamCity


This Java-based continuous integration server allows you to develop for .Net and mobile platforms. It runs locally and has a system tray notification tool which will alert you over email if any issues happen while the build is finishing.

Also, TeamCity has a built-in support for a project hierarchy. It allows you to build a project tree that will inherit settings and permissions.



Codeship


Codeship supports the most popular languages: Java, Ruby, PHP, Python. It integrates with multiple repository hosting services such as GitHub, Bitbucket, Deploy Anywhere, Engine Yard. Codeship significantly eases deployment. You just need to define a project in a UI and setting couple of parameters before making a commit. Codeship will test new code once it’s pushed and deploy it automatically.



Travis CI


This tool was built to test projects hosted on GitHub. Travis CI has pretty easy and straightforward setup. It requires only a.yaml configuration file to be created in the root of the desired repository. You can develop in C, C++, JavaScript, PHP, Perl and Python, all are supported.



Heili


Heili is an AI infrastructure monitoring and management solution. Think of it as a sidekick that helps out a true devops superhero. It automatically discovers your stack in the cloud, deploys monitoring and gives you peace of mind. Heili uses Ansible for provisioning so you get tons of automation out of the box and can add your own in just few clicks. Running a stack on AWS, Google or Softlayer was never easier.

And which tools do you use? Share with us in comments!

Provided by:Forthscale systems, cloud experts

Tuesday, February 23, 2016

10 cool tools every DevOps team needs



Everyone needs tools that will help to increase productivity. DevOps engineers need such instruments too. In this article you will find some awesome and useful tools that you will definitely love.


1. Logstash




This tool allows teams to analyze log file information. Logstash helps to improve your product by gleaning performance and behavioral metrics.


2. ITinvolve



Productive collaboration is extremely important for every DevOps team. This tool gives you an opportunity to share tools, workspaces, diagrams and other visual information and documentation. ITinvolve is designed for IT. So every team member get at-a-glance understanding of how can something affect existing process or system.


3. Docker



There even is a verb “Dockerize”. This verb is used by DevOps teams who work with this containerization tool. Docker easies the process of pushing the code from development to production without any unavoidable hiccups. It provides standardizations that will make Ops guys happy and flexibility that allows to use almost any language or tool.


4. Heili



It is a real lifechanger for DevOps. Heili is an Artificial Intelligence driven self-learning tool that will go the management work for you. It will learn your operations, increase reliability and cut performance degradation or downtime incidents duration.


5. Jenkins



This tool will help you to build and test your software continuously. Also, it monitors externally-run jobs that allows you to see when something is going wrong.

6. Apache ActiveMQ



Apache ActiveMQ is an open source messaging and Integration Patterns server. DevOps engineers prefer ActiveMQ because it is really fast. Also, it supports several cross language clients and protocols.


7. Squid



Squid will optimize web delivery by reducing bandwidth and improving response times by caching and reusing frequently-requested web page. It is supported on most available operating systems.


8. Snort



This is a good solution for DevOps engineers who are looking for a security tool that will provide real-time traffic analysis and packet logging. Snort is able to detect variety of attacks and probes.


9. Ansible



It is a configuration management tool that will significantly improve your productivity. Ansible is an all-in-one instrument: app deployment, configuration, management and orchestration.

10. Code Climate



This tool will monitor the health of your code from your command line to the cloud,
so you can fix issues sooner and ship better code, faster.


Which tools do you use?


Provided by:Forthscale systems, cloud experts

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