Paul Krill
Editor at Large

8 more cool tools for devops success

feature
Feb 11, 20167 mins

Software and services aimed at automation and analytics are helping fuel the devops revolution

8 more cool tools for devops success

Devops has been gaining steam at organizations of all stripes thanks to its ability to bridge the gap between software development and operations — and to smooth rifts between developers and systems administrators. These two groups have historically butted heads over software development, testing, and deploying the apps into production, but devops aims to save the day.

A host of tools have been introduced in the devops vein, with configuration managements tools like Puppet and Chef perhaps the best known. But the devops tools landscape is much broader than configuration management. Here are eight other tools geared toward devops-minded organizations, each focused on application deployments.

Paul Krill

Paul Krill is editor at large at InfoWorld. Paul has been covering computer technology as a news and feature reporter for more than 35 years, including 30 years at InfoWorld. He has specialized in coverage of software development tools and technologies since the 1990s, and he continues to lead InfoWorld’s news coverage of software development platforms including Java and .NET and programming languages including JavaScript, TypeScript, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, and Go. Long trusted as a reporter who prioritizes accuracy, integrity, and the best interests of readers, Paul is sought out by technology companies and industry organizations who want to reach InfoWorld’s audience of software developers and other information technology professionals. Paul has won a “Best Technology News Coverage” award from IDG.

More from this author