Top 11 DevOps Automation Tools in 2020

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Published: 2020-04-22 09:27:53

DevOps is an approach that combines software development (Dev) and Information technology operations, which allows organizations to deliver software releases and new changes to users in a rapid environment with the help of automation.  If you’re new to DevOps practices or looking to improve your current processes, it can be a challenge to know which tool is best for your team. We’ve put together this list to help you make an informed decision on which tools should be a part of your stack. So, let’s go through the 10 best DevOps tools, from automated build tools to application performance monitoring platforms.

Also know- Top 10 DevOps trends you need to know in 2020

**The best DevOps tools for 2020**
*1. Gradle-*
Since 2009, Gradle is consistently proving itself an unbelievably versatile and reliable build tool in the DevOps device stack. It gained more popularity when Google designated it as the official build tool for Android Studio. Gradle allows developers to write the code in any well-known languages like Python, C++, and Java, and most of the popular IDEs such as Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA, and Netbeans support it.

While the other overwhelming automated build tools like Maven and Apache Ant use XML for configuration, Gradle started using a Groovy-based DSL to describe build scripts. In 2016, the Gradle team released a Kotlin-based DSL. The repository format of Gradle is equivalent to Maven and Ant builds can be easily imported into Gradle. Gradle offers incremental builds that save a huge amount of compile time. This is the best part of Gradle. Besides, Gradle has build-cache, which reuses task outputs and daemon retains build information in memory in the middle of builds. These two components make Gradle’s performance a hundred times faster than Maven. In addition, Gradle accompanies various configuration options.

*2. Git-*
Git is one of the most widely used DevOps tools over the software industry. It is the most loved tool of the remote groups and open source contributors. It is a distributed source code management (SCM) tool that allows developers to track the progress of your development work by maintaining different versions of the source code. Also, they can easily return to a previous version whenever required. Git can be easily integrated with the DevOps workflow by using host archives where DevOps repositories where DevOps team members can push their work. At present, GitHub and Bitbucket are the two best online Git repo hosting services in which GitHub is more familiar. While Bitbucket provides free unlimited private repos for a team of up to five members, GitHub provides free access only to public repos.

*3. Kubernetes-*
These days, everyone is discussing Kubernetes, which is a container orchestration platform founded by Google. It manages containers at large scale and takes containerization to the next level. It functions admirably in combination with Docker or any of its equivalents. With Kubernetes, containers can be grouped into logical units. Kubernetes allows automating the process of managing many containers. Kubernetes facilitates to deploy containerized apps to a cluster of computers rather than a single machine by automating the distribution and scheduling of containers across the cluster.

A Kubernetes cluster works on the master-slave concept. The pre-defined rules are executed on the master node and the containers deployed on the slave nodes. Kubernetes deals with everything. Whenever a slave node is  down Kubernetes redistributes the containers on the other nodes.

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*4. Jenkins-*
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