When it comes to DevOps a good team is essential but the tools will make-or-break the entire philosophy–so know the tools, to have the best tools on hand.

The concept of “Dev” represents a software development and engineering aspect, and “Ops” has always stood for IT operations. The combination of the common “DevOps” tries to convey an intuitive alliance between software developers and IT operations. And indeed, this is the basic idea of DevOps and the trigger of the corresponding motion: a coming together of the two fundamentally different in the traditional areas of perception software development and IT operations.

Somewhat simplified, the task of software developers is to as quickly as possible implement the functions required by the customer. Now with the emergence of cloud computing, developers require a little extra help to simplify the task of IT operations.

We present here some of the top development tools for “Dev” and “Ops” in how they develop, deliver and manage cloud infrastructure.

GitHub

Arguably, GitHub is the best way to collaborate with others. GitHub is an open software collaboration tool that lets you create your own repository using Git so that they are no longer only hosted on your local machine but on remote machines so others can see what they are doing and plan their action.

It is not always easy to know how to use the most famous open source tool Git. To do this, GitHub offers an online application to learn the 25-step handling of Git.

This site is developed in Ruby on Rails. You can register to GitHub to use the service, or you can become a premium member. You can create projects and share your codes by GitHub. It provides all the features of social networking category followed by people or projects, network graphs for deposits, etc. So when you work on a project, you can add other developers who are registered with GitHub for help. You can also follow the project and changes in the version of your code. Finally, you can create questions and keep track of all your public and private keys. GitHub also provides APIs for developers to integrate their projects.

In three years, GitHub has become the most popular web service hosting and project management, far exceeding Sourceforge, Google Code and Microsoft CodePlex with hosting over six million repositories. GitHub now becomes a platform to post a lot more than just code. It is now used by artists, designers, homeowners and lots of other people, by whole business and even municipalities.

Graphite

Graphite is a real time scalable graphing framework that collects numeric time-series data that you are interested in graphing. The data can then be visualized through graphite’s web interfaces.

Built on Python, The Graphite webapp is built on the Django web framework and uses the ExtJS JavaScript GUI toolkit. Graphite scales horizontally on both the frontend and the backend and is optimized to handle the numerical streams of information. It simultaneously retrieves data off the disk as well as from the pre-storage cache and combines the two sources of data to create a real-time graph.

Chef

Chef is available since 2009. The configuration management tool was influenced by the Puppet and CFEngine. Chef offers support for multiple platforms, including Ubuntu, Debian, RHEL/CentOS, Fedora, Mac OS X, Windows 7, 8 and Windows Server.

It is often described as easier to use – especially for Ruby developers because everything at Chef is defined as a Ruby script and follows a model with which developers are used to.

Chef works by writing the instructions for which packages should be installed in Chef server, nodes and Chef workstation order. The Chef server contains configuration data to manage multiple nodes. Files and configuration resources stored on the Chef server are pulled when requested. There is a wide variety of plug-ins ready to install many common packages.

Puppet

Many organizations including Google, Twitter, Oracle and Rackspace, use Puppet to manage their infrastructure. Puppet, which tends to require a learning curve steeper than the Chef, supports a variety of Windows and Linux platform. Puppet has a large community of active users and used by thousands of organizations with facilities running tens of thousands of instances.

Puppet uses the concept of master server – called Puppet master – that centralizes configuration between nodes and groups them based on type. For example, if you had a set of web servers that were all running Tomcat with WAR Jenkins, it would group them in Puppet page. The Puppet agent runs as a daemon on systems. This allows the implementation of infrastructure changes on multiple nodes simultaneously.

Graphdat

Relatively new configuration management tool, Graphdat offers real-time application performance monitoring of servers, hardware, operating systems and applications.

The Smart Alarms system of Graphdat automates monitoring of critical servers and provides a real time graphical report of server performance including CPU usage, memory, disk and network metrics.

Graphdat also offers various plug-ins for developers including Apache, IIS, and Linux NGiNX; software stack (node.js, Microsoft .NET, php, python and ruby); and database (SQL server and MySQL).

Gangila

Ganglia is widely used in high-performance computing environments, but has properties that make it attractive in other environments (such as cloud-computing, systems and imaging centers hosting). Ganglia is more focused on collecting the values of various parameters (metrics) and track changes over time.

Ganglia was originally developed at the University of Berkeley BSD license. Its purpose is to provide a robust and resource-consuming solution for monitoring the performance of cluster computing and provides graphs so that you can watch performance over time. These clusters can contain hundreds or thousands of nodes. The implementation of Ganglia is robust and can been ported to various operating systems and architectures easily, thus extending its reach to a large number of clusters in the world.

Logstash

Log files of applications are often the key to success. The log files provide clues about what happens if something goes wrong. Logstash is a tool for managing events and logs. You can use log files to collect, analyze and store them for later use.

Its strength lies in its many input-output and effort interfacing possibilities where you can build graphs and drill down looking for items that need investigating.

CloudVelocity

CloudVelocity automates the time-consuming and risky critical processes and offers a solution to automate the migration of a multi-tier Linux or Microsoft architecture to a public cloud.

CloudVelocity is based on a patented architecture called Hybrid Cloud One that reveals the cloud as an extension of the physical datacenter. Download and install the CloudVelocity software on the servers that form the applications. The CloudVelocity software creates a blueprint of the server and then replicates the operating system binaries, libraries, application stacks, and application data back to the cloud. CloudVelocity ensures that those who run in the cloud continue to have access to those residing in the enterprise architecture.

The solution reduces manual intervention, reduces the risk by automating processes, and thus reducing the time and costs.

Ubuntu Juju

Ubuntu Juju is a service orchestration tool that makes it easy to deploy applications in cloud computing. It allows you to capitalize on the best practices and technical teams to make the assembly of fully automated software components.

Juju can make the notion of abstract machine or server. The system is responsible for allocating resources, create virtual machines, etc. It will even automatically configure the relationships between different services depending on the links that are defined.

The development process in this case is very simple and easy to manage through the façade is called a “charm,” which is the packaging wrapped around the service. The Charm of the script is carried out in various languages, which are used to configure and deploy services.