Tool Selection: Option of Many vis-a-vis Problem of Many
Tags: cloudcomputing
Published: 2024-01-23 13:31:11

While having a programmable Infrastructure would assist in the adoption of a Dynamic environment for Cloud Offerings/SaaS, such an undertaking is possible with a variety of open-source/service tools. Below are the list of such tools which covers mostly both end of the spectrum. 

The major hurdle to pass for all in the journey is ["Problem of Many"](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/problem-of-many/) by experimenting for a purpose, selecting from many, harnassing its value and adapting ...

## Identity and Access Management

1. [Ory Kratos](https://github.com/ory/kratos)
   **Authn and Authz:** IDP Broker, User Management, Group Management

2. [Zitadel](https://github.com/zitadel)
   **Authn and Authz:** IDP Broker, User Management, Group Management

3. [Evolveum Midpoint](https://evolveum.com/) 
   **Identity Governance** 

4. [Aesir Kstone](https://www.kstone.net/)
   **Authn and Authz:** Hierarchical template based User
5. [One Identity PAM/PSM](https://www.oneidentity.com/privileged-access-management/)
   **Authn and Authz:** Privileged Access/Password Management

## Information Security

1. [Brinqa](https://www.brinqa.com/)
   **Vulnerability Management:** 

2. [Tenable](https://www.tenable.com/products/tenable-io)
   **Vulnerability Management:**

3. [Sapora](https://www.saporo.io/)
   **Identity Risk Management:**

4. [Cloudflare](https://www.cloudflare.com/)
   **Internet Access and DNS:** Application Firewall, CDN, Proxy

5. [Splunk](https://www.splunk.com/en_us/products/enterprise-security.html)
   **Security Information and Event Management**

6. [Adaptive Shield](https://www.adaptive-shield.com/)
   **SaaS Security Posture Management:** Tool to Assess and Manage Security Posture of multliple SaaS solution

7. [Bolodon James Classifier](https://dataclassification.fortra.com/resources)
   **Classification:** Classification of Application and Messages, Emails ...

8. [Proofpoint](https://www.proofpoint.com/us/observeit-is-now-proofpoint)
   **Threat Management**
9. [Trellix McAfee Data Security](https://www.trellix.com/platform/data-security/)
   **Data Loss Protection**
10. [Prisma Cloud Palo Alto](https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/prisma/cloud)
   **Security Posture Management**
11. [Trufflehog](https://github.com/trufflesecurity/trufflehog)
  **Secrets Management**
12. [Thinkst Canary](https://canary.tools/)
  **Instrusion Detetection**
13. [Tuffin Security Track](https://www.tufin.com/tufin-orchestration-suite/securetrack)
  **Hybrid Cloud Network Security**
14. [Netscout Arbor](https://www.netscout.com/arbor)
 **DDOS Protection**

## Operations

1. [PagerDuty](https://www.pagerduty.com/)
   **Operation Platform:** 

2. [Apache Superset](https://superset.apache.org/)
   **Data Exploration and Visualization**

3. [Prometheus](https://prometheus.io/)
   **System Monitoring**

4. [Grafana](https://grafana.com/)
   **Observability Platform**

5. [CloudQuery](https://www.cloudquery.io/) 
   **Monitoring Cloud Infrastructure**

## Engineering

1. [Terraform](https://www.terraform.io/)
   **Cloud Infrastructure Provision**

2. [Gitlab](https://about.gitlab.com/)
   **DevOps Platform and Source Control**

3. [Github](https://github.com)
   **DevOps Platform and Source Control**

4. [Backtstage](https://backstage.io/)
   **Developer Portal Platform**

5. [Tekton](https://tekton.dev/)
   **Cloud Native CI/CD for Kubernetes artifacts**

6. [Kubevela](https://kubevela.io/)
   **Hybrid Cloud Software Delivery Platform** 

7. [ArgoCD](https://argo-cd.readthedocs.io/en/stable/)
   **GitOps Kubernetes Software delivery Platform

8. [Windmill](https://www.windmill.dev/)
   **Developer Platform for APIs, Workflows and Quick UIs**

9. [Supabase](https://supabase.com/)
   **Developer Platform with state of art Database, Authentication, storage, Edge, Vector capabilities**

10.[Hasura](https://hasura.io/)
   **Instant API Platform**

11.[Score](https://docs.score.dev/docs/)
  **Tech agnostic Workload definition**