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Top 5 Virtualization tools for Developers | List of Virtualization tools | scmGalaxy

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Software developers are busier now than ever before. They want to do more work in less time with quality. But, as we all know it’s not possible without right set of tools in your arsenal. So, it’s always good to find tools that can make work faster and make you more productive. Today we are going to talk on Virtualization tools. In this article I’m going to share a list of top 5 virtualization tool which will definitely help developers to improve their productivity and allow them to build better applications faster.

But, before that let’s have Quick introduction to Virtualization

Virtualization is a process in which, with the help of tools you can create a virtual version of resources like memory, operating system , server or networks instead of deploying the actual resource. In simple words you can understand it like this way: Virtualization let you run or operate a single computer into multiple ones. It let you run a Mac OS on Linux or Windows system in a single computer simultaneously. The Windows, Mac, Linux, or other system running in the virtual machine acts exactly as if it were running on real hardware. The same thing apply with storage, server or networks.

Basically Virtualization tools are used for server consolidation. But they are useful for software developers for writing or testing software.

If we look on to the benefits than these are the major benefits of Virtualization.

  1. Lessen the number of Hardware Resources
  2. 80% server use possible
  3. Cut IT costs
  4. consolidated hardware to achieve higher productivity from fewer servers
  5. multiple operating systems and applications on a single computer
  6. simple IT infrastructure with low upkeep
  7. Quickly deployment of new applications

So, Now without any further ado lets check out the Top 5 tools and their features.

1. Vagrant

Vagrant is an open source virtualization tool which developed by Hashicorp and written in Ruby. But, it’s support projects written in other languages too, like as Java, javascript, C#, Python and PHP. It’s work on platforms Linux, FreeBSD, macOS, and Microsoft Windows.

Features:

  • Open Source
  • Cross Platform: Linux, FreeBSD, macOS, and Microsoft Windows essential
  • Natively supports Docker containers
  • Can work with Puppet & Chef
  • Users can share running environment via Internet

 

2. VirtualBox

VirtualBox is also an open source virtualization tool which is developed by originally by Innotek GmbH and now being developed by Oracle Corporation. This virtualization tool is written in C, C++, x86 Assembly. It is one of the oldest tool in the industry which is used by developers.
Features:
  • Open Source
  • Virtualization Type: Hardware Assisted Virtualization & Paravirtualization
  • Cross Platform: Windows, macOS, Linux and Solaris
  • Easy to install and use-friendly
  • Video capture support
  • VirtualBox adds support for touchscreens

3. VMware

 

VMware is a veteran in the software industry which is developed by VMware Inc. and comes in 3 different packages by name VMware Workstation, VMware Fusion and VMware workstation Player in which player comes free for users who are looking to run virtual machines on their Windows or Linux systems. The first one is good option which is designed for professionals and the second one is for home users who simply wants to run windows on MAC. VMWare products are mostly written in c, C++ and assembly but different different languages are used in various other bits.
Features:
  • Free and Paid
  • Cross Platform: Windows, Linux and Mac OSX
  • Comes in three packages
  • Virtualization Type: Full Virtualization, Hardware Assisted Virtualization & Paravirtualization
  • Easy to use
  • Quick Installation

4. Xen

 


Xen is initially developed by University of Cambridge but now it’s belongs to Linux Foundation. Xen runs on Linux and Unix. Xen is included with most popular Linux platforms like Fedora, RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu, and Debian.
Features:
  • Open Source
  • Platform: Linux/Unix
  • Virtualization Type: Paravirtualization & Hardware Assisted Virtualization
  • Guest Os: Windows Server 2003, Windows XP and Windows 2000
  • Also supports Red Hat, SUSE and Debian Linux guest OS.

5. KVM

Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is also an open source intended for personal and small-medium business solutions. It’s originally developed by Qumranet and now belongs to Red Hat. KVM is written in C and it;s suitable for Linux. If you need or looking for command line interface virtualization tool which comes with updated solutions, boundless use mode and without extra features and permitting charges than this is the right tool you can have.
Features:
  • Open Source
  • Platform: Linux
  • Virtualization type: Full Virtualization, Hardware Assisted Virtualization and Paravirtualization
  • Powerful command line interface
So, This is my list of Top 5 virtualization tools. Now, what you think about my list or if you are not agree with my selected tools or if you think this list should contain some other Virtualization tools instead of this, than write in comment section below.
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Top 10 Continuous Integration Tools | List of Best CI Tools | scmGalaxy

by scmgalaxy KContinuous IntegrationLeave a Comment on Top 10 Continuous Integration Tools | List of Best CI Tools | scmGalaxy
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Today we are present here with another interesting article which will help you to know about the best tools which are used for continuous integration in DevOps practices.
Continuous Integration has become a mainstream technique for software development. Which makes it mandatory to implement it in your software development lifecycle (SDLC). But implementation of CI required best selection of tools to achieve good results and there is still a confusion amongst beginners and even in vetrans of software industry while choosing the best tools. So keep reading, I have done some research and compile a list of CI tools which will definitely going to help you.
Before going further, let’s first see what is Continuous Integration?
Continuous Integration is a practice in DevOps software development process which improves the quality of the code. In this practice all the developers who are related and working on the project integrate there codes into a central repository frequently for several times in a day. After which automated build and automated tests run, which verify each integrations in the repository. The main objective of the continuous integration is to provide rapid feedback when any defect is found in the code base and correct it as soon as possible.
Now we know about continuous Integration but one question arises here, Why we do Continuous Integration?
So, Now let’s see the benefits of CI
  • Earlier finding & addressing of Bugs – By implementing continuous integration you can do frequent testings which helps to find bugs and error quickly before they ruin your whole efforts later.
  • Improve software quality – Early finding issues in the codes, developers can act on them early before they grow into larger problems later,  which ultimately improves the quality of the software.
  • Reduce the time it takes to validate – CI immensely reduce the waiting time to find out if your code’s going to work or not.
  • Release new software updates – Doing frequently and numbers of time automated build and test of codes helps teams to deliver the new updates to the user more often and faster.
So, these are the major benefits of CI. Now back to the point and purpose of this article, as I said earlier continuous intergation needs various tools to implement the process and choosing amongst the available tools for your purpose can be a daunting task, especially when you are going to select for the first time.
So, without further wasting any time let’s check out the top 10 Continuous integration tools.

1. Jenkins

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Jenkins is a Java written Continuous Integration tool, which was initiated as the fork of Hudson after conflict with oracle. It is a cross platform tool which allow GUI interface and console commands configuration. It available under MIT license which make it free to use. It supports rich plugins that integrates with virtually every existing software configuration management [SCM] or builds tool.

Features:- 

  • Open Source
  • Easy installation
  • Easy configuration
  • Rich plugin ecosystem
  • Extensibility
  • Distributed builds
  • Platform: Cross-platform

2. TeamCity

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TeamCity is one of the mature and wise java based continuous integration server which is belongs to JetBrains labs. It is available in free and paid license for users. It’s free version offers almost all the features but for up to 20 build configurations and 3 free Build Agents. Teamcity also supports different tools and frameworks and also it’s available with wide variety of plugins. It’s also support .Net features which makes it suitable for .Net projects.

Features :- 

  • Free and Paid
  • Gated Commits (prevents developers from breaking sources in a version control system by running the build remotely for local changes prior to commit)
  • Build Grid. Allows running multiple builds and tests under different platforms and environments simultaneously
  • Integrated code coverage, inspections and duplicates search
  • Integration with IDEs: Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA, Visual Studio
  • Platforms supported: Java, .NET and Ruby
  • Supports cloud integration

3. Travis CI

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Travis CI is an open source continuous integration tool which is written in RUBY. It’s easily get sync with GitHub. It’s supports platforms like Linux, Mac or iOS and also supports many languages in which Node js, php, Xcode, python, java, are few of them. It also performs parallel test runs using their great APIs and command line tools.
  • Open source
  • Supports pull request and branch build flow
  • Parallel test runs
  • Easily synchronize with GitHub
  • Flexible plans for every size project
  • Platforms: Hosted
  • Supports Many Languages like Node js, php, Xcode, python and many more.

4. Microsoft Team Foundation Server

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Team foundation server which is also abbreviated to TFS is a product of microsoft. It is a collaborative tool that consists the code repositories, continuous integration, and bug or task tracking. TFS perform in environment like Eclipse, Xcode, Visual Studio or in Git client. It’s also support languages like Python, C#, HTML, Java and various others too. It is available for free downloading but under trialware license.

  • Trial-ware
  • Supports many languages like Python, C#, HTML, Java and various others
  • Work in any environment like Visual Studio, Xcode, Eclipse, or any Git client
  • Extensible tool can work effectively for all shapes and sizes

5. Bamboo

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Bamboo is also one of the top continuous integration tool which is developed by Atlassian. This is available with free trial license. Bamboo is written in Java and it is easily works with JIRA & Bitbucket. It’s also allow you to import jenkins data to Bamboo easily. Bamboo also supports others tools like AWS, Amazon S3, Ant, Docker, codeDeploy, Maven, Git & SVN.

Features:- 

  • Paid and Free trial
  • Cross platform
  • Allow to Import data from Jenkins
  • Works with JIRA and Bitbucket
  • Works with others tools like CodeDeply, Ducker, Maven, Git, SVN, Mercurial, Ant, AWS, Amazon S3 buckets
  • Support many languages
  • Can run multiple builds parerally
  • customization of triggers and variables
  • Very fast and easy to use

6. UBuild-UDeploy-URelease

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UBuild-UDeploy-URelease is also known as Urbancode deploy is a collaborative product of IBM. It provides continuous delivery, self-service, speedy feedback and progressive updates within the agile development and automates the applying deployments during a consistent manner. With urbancode You can systemise the changes you pushed on servers, tiers and components and also restore the applications.

Features:- 

  • Licensing plans
  • Hosted service
  • Server virtualization
  • Integrated with middle-ware
  • Clear visibility: what is deployed where and who changed what
  • Configuration and security differences across environments
  • Orchestration of changes across servers, tiers and components
  • Automated provisioning, updating, and de-provisioning of cloud environments
  • Automated, consistent deployments and rollbacks of applications

7. Go CD

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Go CD is a free of charge (excluding commercial support) tool written in Java and Ruby which belongs to ThoughtWorks. This tool works on Linux, Windows and Mac Platforms. It’s also supports many languages but which makes it stand out among-st the tools is the Pipeline concept which makes build process easy and it eliminate the file-handle leak errors and fix the OOM on agents when parsing large xml test artifacts.

Features:- 

  • Availability: Free with paid support
  • Platform: Windows, Linux, Mac
  • Pipeline Concept
  • Parallel execution of the tasks
  • Support Many languages
  • Easily compare builds
  • Clearly visualize workflow
  • Promote trusted artifacts
  • Plugins availability
8. GitLab CI

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GitLab CI is an open source and also comes with commercial licesnse continuous integration tool. It belongs to Gitlab inc. which is written in Ruby and Go. This tool support platforms like Windows, OSX , Linux, Unix and various others which supports Go. Gitlab work with languages like Java, PHP, Ruby, C and with various others too.

Features:- 

  • Platform: Hosted
  • Availability: Free and paid with trial
  • Easy to learn
  • GitLab CI is fully integrated with GitLab
  • Docker support
  • Pipeline Concept
  • Supports multi-languages – Java, PHP, Ruby, C etc..
  • Parallel builds
  • Autoscaling
  • Build artifacts

9. CircleCI

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CircleCI is also belongs to Gitlab Inc, free and paid with trail option which runs in any environment like cross platform mobile app too. Circle ci supports languages such as Python, Ruby/Rails, Node.js, PHP, Haskell, Skala and Java. This tool is scalable which minimize the errors and improves application quality. Circle CI also supports Docker.

Features:- 

  • Availability: Free and paid with trial
  • Platform: Cross platform
  • Supported languages includes Java, Ruby/Rails, Python, Node.js, PHP, Haskell, and Skala
  • Supports Docker
  • Flexible pricing model

10. Codeship

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Codeship is also an powerful hosted CI tool which is available with free and paid support options. This tool is very easy to set up and it automatically deploy the passed tests results. This tool works on GitHub and Bitbucket, but you can use it with docker platform too by opting packages. This tool support langusges such as Java, PHP, Ruby (Rails), Node.js, Python, and Go.

Features:- 

  • Availability: Free and paid
  • Platform: Hosted
  • ParallelCI feature
  • Supported languages Go Ruby on Rails, Node.js, PHP, Java, Go, Dart etc..
  • Flexible Pricing
  • Docker Supported (by upgrading)
  • Easy to setup, fast and reliable
So, this is my list of top continuous integrations tools. Hope my efforts will help you in your Continuous integration process. One more thing, I would like to add here is that, if you want to learn the continuous integration process or you need support to get started with these tools in your work environment than scmGalaxy offers support from industry experts. And, If you think that any others tools deserves place in this list than feel free to share with us in the comment section.
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Top 5 Code Editors for the Software Programmers | Best Code Editor | scmGalaxy

by scmgalaxy KIDEs and EditorLeave a Comment on Top 5 Code Editors for the Software Programmers | Best Code Editor | scmGalaxy
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This is the age of programming and coding and in the last few years software industry changes a lot. We can see a lot of automation and different kind of tools used by programmers and developers to perform their tasks and projects, and it’s necessary too  because a right tool can simplify your work environment and same time it improves your productivity. So, today we are going to talk about “Code Editors” tools, which play a vital role in programmer’s workspace.
So first, Let’s see , What is code Editor?
The formal definition is: “A code editor is a type of program used for editing plain text files.”
In our language we can say: A code editor is a program in our systems or computer that allows us to write, create and edit a range of programming languages codes on them very easily and it’s also assist programmers to avoid some of the common mistakes in coding by providing them instant detailing of the code, which increase their efficiency.

So, this is very much important to use good code editors which comes with some common features which are necessary to make best use of it.

Let’s look on to the common features in Code Editor you should look for.
  • User-Friendly — It should be easy to use and navigate.
  • Search & Replace — This is one feature through which you can easily search words and replace them with few clicks.
  • Copy & Paste —This feature is no doubt one the most important feature because without cut,copy and paste we can not think to even write these days.
  • Syntax highlighting — Only a programmer knows, how it feels when a single “;” (semi-colon) missed in a code of thousand lines results in a failed program execution. So, Code editor should contain syntax highlighting feature, it helps to read and pick up code errors easily.
  • UTF-8 — Code editors should able to deal with UTF-8 encoded text.
  • Extensions — When choosing a text editor one should also check plugins availability to the editor. It allows you to use it with additional features.

Now, comes the real problem

 

There are so many Code editors available but to choose from them can be a challenging task. It requires time, experiment and research to find out the best code editors. To help you out we have done all these things for you and compile a list of top 10 code editors. So without wasting any time let’s start.


1. Notepad++

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Notepad ++ is an open source code editor which is one of the most popular editor which compatible with windows but can be use on Linux, Unix, Mac or OS with the help of Wine. This application supports large numbers of programming, scripting and markup languages but works best with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP. It is very easy to use and very lightweight application which can manage huge files without any major lags or crashes.
It’s features:-
  • Supports syntax highlighting
  • Tabbed editing
  • External Plugins Support
  • Auto indentation
  • Auto-completion of words & functions.
  • Compiler Integration
  • File Transfer Protocol (FTP) support
  • Search and Replace
2.Sublime
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Sublime is also one of the most popular editor tool. The sublime editor is not available for free but you can use free trial offer. This editor works on Mac, Windows, and Linux operating systems and they have an advanced interface which is really good for server side programming. It is also lightweight but powerful editor which provides IDE-like features along with Python Scripting. This editor can be an alernative for Integrated Development Environment (IDE). This editor also allows you to use it without any complications. Easy to use and navigate.
It’s features
  • Lightning fast project switching
  • Multiple line selection and editing
  • Syntax highlighting
  • Can be completely customized
  • Programmers friendly Plugins support
  • Side by side file comparisons
  • cross platform support
  • Distraction free mode (Black screen)

3. Vim

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Vim is an open source free to use editor which is one of the oldest code editor of the industry. This editor works on windows, Linux, Mac os, Android and in iOS platforms. This editor supports large number of plugins which makes it fully customizable. This is one of the most powerful editor you can use but it demands your mastery due to its overtly techie nature but once you get it, you can find no other better options than this editor.
It’s features
  • Work very well with large files
  • Supports complete keyboard operations
  • Supports large numbers of plugins
  • Useful in a remote development environment using a terminal over SSH
  • It can be customized to heart’s content using .vimrc dotfile & VimScript
  • Charityware (Donations go to charities)
4. Atom
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Atom is also amongst open source free to use editors which was invented by GitHub. Atom is a quite new in this industry which was introduced as “hackable text editor for the 21st century”. It’s designed very simple but can be easily customize with the help of packages. This one is resemblance of sublime text editor. It’s work on OSX 10.8 or later, Windows and Linux platforms.
It’s features
  • Very easy to use
  • Auto-completion
  • Highly customizable
  • Offers git control and package management features
  • Updates on regular basis with new functionalities and bug fixes
  • Supports Command Palette
  • Easy to Customise UI

5. Komodo Edit

 

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Komodo edit is also amongst one of the powerful editor which is available in open source and free to use that works on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Komodo edit supports few programming languages which are HTML5, TCL, XML, JavaScript, Ruby, Python, Perl, CSS3, and PHP. This editor is preferred by advanced programmers , so if you are just starting out than it will take some time to understand it’s interface and navigations.
It’s features
  • Syntax highlighting
  • Auto indentation
  • Code folding
  • Auto completion
  • Extension support and macros
  • Multiple selections
  • Code snippets
  • Komodo IDE for Teams (you can upgrade for advance features)
In the end I would just say, the best text editor is the one you work most effectively with. You simply need to discover the editor that gets you there the fastest.
So, this is our selection of top editors for software programmer, we have tried our best to make this list but, if you used or using any other editors and find it better than the above mentioned list then let us know in the comment box below with it’s key features.
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Top 10 DevOps Tools which is mostly used by DevOps Engineers | scmGalaxy

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DevOps is an important component for software industry today. Developing and implementing a DevOps culture helps to focus IT results and to save time and money as the gap between developers and IT operations teams closes. Just as the term and culture are new, so are many of the best DevOps tools these DevOps engineers use to do their jobs efficiently and productively. To help you in your DevOps process, we have searched and created this list of DevOps tools which is mostly used by DevOps Engineers in their projects.

1. Chef

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Chef is an extremely popular tool among DevOps engineers. From IT automation to configuration management, Chef relies on recipes and resources so you can manage unique configurations and feel secure knowing Chef is checking your nodes and bringing them up to date for you.
Key Features:
  • Manage nodes from a single server
  • Cross-platform management for Linux, Windows, Mac OS, and more
  • Integrates with major cloud providers
  • Premium features available

2. Jenkins

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An extensible continuous integration engine, Jenkins is a top tool for DevOps engineers who want to monitor executions of repeated jobs. With Jenkins, DevOps engineers have an easier time integrating changes to projects and have access to outputs to easily notice when something goes wrong.
Key Features:
  • Permanent links
  • RSS/email/IM integration
  • After-the-fact tagging
  • JUnit/TestNG test reporting
  • Distributed builds
3. Puppet

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Puppet is an open-source configuration management tool. It runs on many Unix-like systems as well as on Microsoft Windows, and includes its own declarative language to describe system configuration. DevOps engineers often rely on Puppet for IT automation. Get a handle on configuration management and software while making rapid, repeatable changes with Puppet.
Key Features:
  • Automatically enforce consistency of environments
  • Works across physical and virtual machines
  • A common tool-chain
  • Support key DevOps best practices, including continuous delivery

4. Ant

 

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A Java library and command-line tool, Apache Ant looks “to drive processes described in build files as targets and extension points dependent upon each other.” This build automation tool is one that saves DevOps engineers a great deal of time.
Key Features:
  • Supplies a number of built-in tasks for compiling, assembling, testing, and running Java applications
  • Builds non-Java applications, such as C or C++ applications
  • Pilot any type of process which can be described in terms of targets and tasks
  • Extremely flexible and does not impose coding conventions or directory layouts to the Java projects which adopt it as a build tool

5. Apache Maven

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DevOps engineers can manage a project’s build, reporting, and documentation from a central piece of information with Apache Maven. A software project management and comprehension tool, Maven has been a reliable tool for DevOps engineers.
Key Features:
  • Simple project setup follows best practices
  • Easily work with multiple projects at one time
  • Large repository of libraries and metadata that continue to grow
  • Extensible, with the ability to write plugins in Java or scripting languages
6. Logstash

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For open source log processing, search, and analytics, Logstash is a popular tool among DevOps engineers. Because Logstash is licensed under Apache 2.0, you can use it in the way that best suits your needs.

Key Features:
  • Collects, parses, and stores logs for later use
  • Includes a web interface for searching and drilling into all of your logs
  • Ship logs from any source, parse them, timestamp them correctly, index them, and search them

7. Docker

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An open platform for distributed applications, Docker is an application for DevOps engineers who want to “build, ship, and run any app, anywhere.” With Docker, you can quickly assemble apps from components and work collaboratively.
Key Features:
  • Assemble multi-container apps and run on any infrastructure
  • Compose an app using both proprietary containers and Docker Hub Official Repos
  • Manage all containers of an app as a single group
  • Cluster an app’s containers to optimize resources and provide high-availability
8. New Relic

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With New Relic APM, DevOps engineers spend less time monitoring applications and more time on building and deploying. A popular, reliable tool, New Relic APM is a great choice for DevOps engineers.
Key Features:
  • Helps in the build, deployment, and maintenance of web software
  • Application monitoring in one place
  • Cross application and transaction tracing
  • Database and availability and error monitoring
9. Gradle

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Gradle is a robust tool for automating building, testing, publishing, and deploying software packages and other projects. With the combined power and flexibility of Ant and Maven, Gradle is an open source build automation system which is perfect and very useful for DevOps engineers.
Key Features:
  • Declarative builds and build-by-convention
  • Language for dependency-based programming
  • Structure your build
  • Deep API
  • Multi-project builds
  • Ease of migration
10. Git 

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Git is a mature, actively maintained open source project originally developed in 2005 by Linus Torvalds, the famous creator of the Linux operating system kernel. Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
Key Features:
  • Working offline
  • Fast to Work With
  • Repositories Are Smaller
  • Moving or Adding files
  • Ignore Certain Files
  • Branches
  • Check the Status of Your Changes
  • Stash Branches
  • Cherry Pick Changes from Branches
  • Find version that Introduced a bug using Binary Search
These are the most popular DevOps tools which are used by DevOps engineers or practitioners these days. But to make most out of these tools you need to have proper knowledge of these tools like installation process, implementation process, where to you use, how to use, troubleshooting and much more. So, if you think you need help or training for these tools or for DevOps related helps than we are here to assist you with our industry expertise professionals.
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Top 5 Code Coverage Tools | Best Test Coverage Tools

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Today we will talk about code coverage tools which are used by developers for measuring the quality of the software testing. There are so many different types of code coverage tools, some are basics and others that are exceptionally thorough.
But before going further on tools let’s first see what is Code Coverage?
Code Coverage is a methodology, which is performed to measure and describe how much the source code of a program is executed when a specific test suite runs. It gives a percentage score to a program which defines as a high code coverage and low code coverage. If it gets high percentage of code coverage during testings which means it has a minimal chance of containing undiscovered software bugs in the comparison of a program which scored low percentage of code coverage while testing. In simple words , code coverage is performed to check whether your tests are really analyzing your code or not. With code coverage, one can tell the amount of your code is being tested by running the test.
Where to use ?
Code coverage tools can be performed on .NET, Java, Visual C/C++ and Visual Basic applications.
Benefits of Code Coverage
Dead Code Identification – The first and the major benefits of code coverage is that after running this test you will get the outputs that shows those functions which are not called, after detecting that you can identify whether the code is untouched as no required use case exists or code is dead code (i.e. not required).
Missing test Identification – It can be beneficial in identifying the extra tests (exceptional cases), which are missed out earlier after running the test suites analysis report.
Quality Assurance – Quality of a product or application is one of the major concern in software world and this can be done by measuring the report after running the code coverage. Higher the amount of coverage better will be the quality of product or application and lesser is the chance to have defects.
Now the next question here is which code coverage tools to choose ?
This is the real challenge to choose which code coverage tools to use for application testing. I also thought about it and after few hours research on the internet and with the help of google trend I shortlisted my results and pick top 5 code coverage tools.
1. Cobertura –
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Cobertura is one of the most used and best code coverage tools. This is a free Java tool that calculates the percentage of code accessed by tests. It can be used to identify which parts of your Java program are lacking test coverage. It is based on jcoverage. It is easy to use and can measure coverage without having the source code. It’s represents reports in HTML or XML format, It has capacity to test lines and branches of class and method.
2. JaCoCo –
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JaCoCo is also an open source free code coverage tools for Java, which has been made by the EclEmma group in view of the lessons gained from utilizing and joining existing libraries for a long time. JaCoCo offers instructions, line and branch coverage. It can instrument off-line and on-the-fly and It fully supports Java 7 and Java 8. It also has capacity to test lines and branches of class and method. It also provide very nice and easy to navigate HTML or XML report.
3. Clover –
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 Clover is also a Java Code Coverage tools bought and further developed by Atlassian. It is also an open source tool. Clover provide very helpful configurable HTML reports demonstrating code scope as well as high level risks and so on, per-test code coverage and test enhancement, dispersed per-test coverage and many instrument integration; it is by and large effectively created and supported.
4. NCover-
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NCover is a code coverage tool for .Net programs and applications. It supports statement coverage and branch coverage. It is also very easy to use and fast tool which is available on open source and as well as on commercial license. This tool can perform manual as well as automated code coverage tests and it provides nice and attractive multiple testing environments.
5. Testwell CTC++ –
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Testwell CTC++ is a code coverage tool for  C and C++ but it also can be used for Java and C#. The development of this tool is belongs to Testwell which lately acquired by Verifysoft Technology GmbH for C and C++. This tool can check Statement Coverage, Function Coverage, Decision Coverage, Multi Condition Coverage, Modified Condition/Decision Coverage (MC/DC), Condition Coverage. This is also in the category of user-friendly and fast tools. It finds missing test cases smoothly. It provide reports on XML format.
So, This is my list of top code coverage tools, I hope this list will help you in your testings. But, if you think this list should contain any other tools instead these than feel free to share with us in comment box below.
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How Can You Find An Experienced & Qualified DevOps Trainer?

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DevOps is a new trending word in IT industry these days and every IT professionals must heard about it for sure. But for those who heard it for the first time and don’t know much about it, they can find dozens of definitions, of course on Google but in simple words we can say “DevOps is more of a culture than anything else”. DevOps is the transformational strategy you should adopt. It’s eliminating the chunkiness of the traditional relationship between development and operations. It will ask companies to increase the speed up of applications delivery without sacrificing the quality the customers expect. DevOps Improves developers makers strength, Implements automation and creates a feedback from Ops to Dev. Simply means developers and operations teams working together to innovate faster.

DevOps is a big change, it requires mindset and it send the changes across the enterprise but it can be done in a simple manner, if you have the right skill and knowledge. The Individual and organizations have successes by implementing DevOps and seen huge improvement in their productivity and quality.

If we look on the benefits briefly than the following major benefits you can get by implementing DevOps.

·         Technical benefits: Continuous software delivery

·         Technical benefits: Less complex problems to fix

·         Technical benefits: Faster resolution of problems

·         Business benefits: Faster delivery of features

·         Business benefits: More stable operating environments

·         Business benefits: More time available to add value (rather than fix/maintain)

The advantages of DevOps are clear, but the way to change an organization to adopt a DevOps technique presents various difficulties, including how to develop the structure of a group and the culture, what tools to be utilize, how to acquire the abilities, what best practices to implement and how to construct a framework that is dependable and can scale. Here you need an experienced DevOps coach or trainer who can provide you his/her expertise to teach or guide you to learn the DevOps throughout process.

But before going further keep some points in your mind, qualities a devops trainers should have:-

·         Experience of DevOps and the Industry:- You should find DevOps Instructor that has successfully embraced a DevOps culture on a large scale and also has experience in industry.

·         Guidance of Process and Best DevOps Practices:- You need a specialist to guide you, to share dos and don’ts and to give rules and best practices so you comprehend when not to compromise.

·         Personal Abilities:- Trainer ought to be patience, flexibility, empathy, ability to nurture others, creativity, commitment to the work and also the ability to be a team player

·         Simplifying Ability:- Illustrate complex concepts you must draw comparisons to a variety of easily recognizable elements.

·         Create an Environment :- A experienced trainer is attuned to his or her own energy level and that of the class

·         Motivational Skills:- In order to create as many organic learning moments as possible a trainer has to encourage participants to learn themselves.

·         Command of the Subject:- An expert DevOps trainer should have excellent understanding of the subject of the training

·         Communication skills :- A qualified DevOps trainer must have good communication skills for effective delivery


Above mentioned skills are must to have in a DevOps trainer so that you can learn and implement it in a right way.

Now the question arises here where you can find Experienced and qualified DevOps trainers, consultant and mentors in you cities? Because this is a real challenge these days to find qualified DevOps trainers for Individual and Corporate training. So, I did some research to find and I stopped my search on devopstrainer.in. This is a great search portal where you can find qualified and experienced DevOps trainers across the world in many cities like Bangalore, Pune, Hyderabad, Noida, London, Amsterdam, Singapore, San Francisco and many other cities and counties in the world.

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How Can You Find An Experienced & Qualified DevOps Trainer?

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DevOps is a new trending word in IT industry these days and every IT professionals must heard about it for sure. But for those who heard it for the first time and don’t know much about it, they can find dozens of definitions, of course on Google but in simple words we can say “DevOps is more of a culture than anything else”. DevOps is the transformational strategy you should adopt. It’s eliminating the chunkiness of the traditional relationship between development and operations. It will ask companies to increase the speed up of applications delivery without sacrificing the quality the customers expect. DevOps Improves developers makers strength, Implements automation and creates a feedback from Ops to Dev. Simply means developers and operations teams working together to innovate faster.

DevOps is a big change, it requires mindset and it send the changes across the enterprise but it can be done in a simple manner, if you have the right skill and knowledge. The Individual and organizations have successes by implementing DevOps and seen huge improvement in their productivity and quality.

If we look on the benefits briefly than the following major benefits you can get by implementing DevOps.

·         Technical benefits: Continuous software delivery

·         Technical benefits: Less complex problems to fix

·         Technical benefits: Faster resolution of problems

·         Business benefits: Faster delivery of features

·         Business benefits: More stable operating environments

·         Business benefits: More time available to add value (rather than fix/maintain)

The advantages of DevOps are clear, but the way to change an organization to adopt a DevOps technique presents various difficulties, including how to develop the structure of a group and the culture, what tools to be utilize, how to acquire the abilities, what best practices to implement and how to construct a framework that is dependable and can scale. Here you need an experienced DevOps coach or trainer who can provide you his/her expertise to teach or guide you to learn the DevOps throughout process.

But before going further keep some points in your mind, qualities a devops trainers should have:-

·         Experience of DevOps and the Industry:- You should find DevOps Instructor that has successfully embraced a DevOps culture on a large scale and also has experience in industry.

·         Guidance of Process and Best DevOps Practices:- You need a specialist to guide you, to share dos and don’ts and to give rules and best practices so you comprehend when not to compromise.

·         Personal Abilities:- Trainer ought to be patience, flexibility, empathy, ability to nurture others, creativity, commitment to the work and also the ability to be a team player

·         Simplifying Ability:- Illustrate complex concepts you must draw comparisons to a variety of easily recognizable elements.

·         Create an Environment :- A experienced trainer is attuned to his or her own energy level and that of the class

·         Motivational Skills:- In order to create as many organic learning moments as possible a trainer has to encourage participants to learn themselves.

·         Command of the Subject:- An expert DevOps trainer should have excellent understanding of the subject of the training

·         Communication skills :- A qualified DevOps trainer must have good communication skills for effective delivery


Above mentioned skills are must to have in a DevOps trainer so that you can learn and implement it in a right way.

Now the question arises here where you can find Experienced and qualified DevOps trainers, consultant and mentors in you cities? Because this is a real challenge these days to find qualified DevOps trainers for Individual and Corporate training. So, I did some research to find and I stopped my search on devopstrainer.in. This is a great search portal where you can find qualified and experienced DevOps trainers across the world in many cities like Bangalore, Pune, Hyderabad, Noida, London, Amsterdam, Singapore, San Francisco and many other cities and countries in the world.

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Tips to find qualified DevOps Trainers, Instructors and Coach?

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Bangalore is a silicon vallery of the India. There are many software organization and companies, currently working towards the implementing the automation thoughtout the software development life cycle. DevOps has become so popular now a days, every projects wants to implement it thus finding a right DevOps trainers in Bangalore and other city is a challenge. This challenge has been solved by DevOpsTrainer.in.
Before exploring the DevOpsTrainer.in, Lets first understand more about DevOps, DevOps is a new phenomenon in which software companies are automating the release cycle with the quality by introducing many practices in the team and projects. Qualified trainers or coach is very much important for execution of DevOps implementation in the software projects.
So the questions arises here, what is DevOps – DevOps is a combination of two words “Dev” and “Ops” it means Development and Operations. DevOps is the practice of operations and development engineers participating together in the entire organization lifecycle, from plan through the development process to production support. DevOps is likewise operations staff making use many of the same techniques.
There are other aspects to define the DevOps is a product development strategy that highlights the cooperation and open communication between teams. DevOps groups are made out of developers and operations experts cooperating to make sounder, quality product release within shortest span of time. Groups that have adopted the DevOps ethos have a superior handle on their IT occurrences and endure less downtime.
In order to have a continuous software delivery, less complex problem to to settle and to get faster determination of issue, organizations need awesome representatives who can truly comprehend and knows DevOps totally. Also, to prepare them for doing such effective work, organization needs a great mentor and coach with the goal that they can prepare the software engineers to handle specialized issues of the organizations to develop the business effectively and faster.
Before selecting the right DevOps trainer and mentor, first organization must evalaute the qualities and experience what the DevOps instructors has and bringing the new capabilities in the projects. I would rather say, these are the following qualities of DevOps instructors must have in order to guide the project and company to implement the DevOps approach.
  • A decent trainer makes conveying a class look simple and consistent.
  • A  best DevOps trainer is sensitive to his or her own particular vitality level and that of the class.
  • Since DevOps trainer are good examples, they ought to be develop, certain and energetic.
  • A best DevOps trainer knows the material, lives it, inhales it, and can imbue their own understanding into it.

Status to allow and encourage participants to learn from themselves and the class in order to create as many organic learning moments as possible.

There are many cities in the world where IT and software business is growing like tremendously thus implementing the DevOps for organization and their projects is breakthrough and must have things to do. Bangalore in India and California in USA is the silicon valley of the world and thus finding the qualified DevOps trainer and Coach is one of the challenges. DevOpsTrainer.in has simplied this process and created a platform in which any software company can find an experienced DevOps instructors and avail in easiest way to implement the DevOps culture in their projects. DevOpsTrainer.in is providing the DevOps trainers and consultant for each city in the world, some of them are Hyderabad, Pune, Delhi, Chennai, London, Amsterdam, Singapore, san francisco etc.
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Top 10 Static Code Analysis Tool | Best Static Code Analysis Tools List

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Software security is a very important concern for todays Software market and for that you need to do code analysis in the development lifecycle. Now we can not imagine ourselves to sit back and do manual reading each line of codes and find issues and bugs. Those days of manual review in the software development lifecycle to find the flaws in the codes are over now.
Now the mindsets has changed and developing quality & secure code from the beginning is on rise. This is the time of automation and developers & programmers are now shifting towards the adoption of tools which auto detects the flaws as soon as possible in the software development lifecycle.
As the process shifting towards the automation, static code analysis (SCA) has become an important part of creating quality code. Now the question here is, What is Static Code Analysis?

Static Code Analysis is a technique which quickly and automatically scan the code line by line to find security flaws and issues that might be missed in the development process before the software or application is released. It functions by reviewing the code without actually executing the code.

There are three main benefits of Static analysis tools
1. Automation —  Automation can save your time and energy which ultimately means you can invest your time and energy in some other aspects of development lifecycle, which will help you to release your software faster.
2. Security — Security is also one of the major concern and by adopting Static analysis you can cut the doubt of security vulnerabilities in your application, which will ensure that you are delivering a secure and reliable software.
3. Implementation — Static analysis can be implemented as early in the software development lifecycle (SDLC) as you have code to scan, it will give more time to fix the issues discovered by the tool. The best thing of static analysis is that it can detect the exact line of code that’s been found to be problematic.
There are so many Static code analysis tools are available to ease our work but to choose good tools among them is really a challenging task. I have done some research and providing you the list of top 10 static code analysis tools:-

1. VisualCodeGrepper

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Visualcodegreeper is an open source automated code security review tool which works with C++, C#, VB, PHP, Java and PL/SQL to track the insecurities and different issues in the code. This tool rapidly review and depicts in detail the issues it discovers, offering a simple to use interface. It allows custom configurations of queries and it’s updated regularly since its creation (2012).
2. Coverity

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Coverity is also an open source static code analysis tool which supports C, C++, C#, Objective-C, Java, Javascript, node.JS, Ruby, PHP & Python. It is an excellent static analysis product with support of 100 compilers & detailed and clear description of the code issues you can use it in your desktop environment to quickly find and resolve the errors before checking in the code.

3. Veracode

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Veracode is also one of the best static code analysis tool which can find security flaws in application binary code – compiled or “byte” code even when the consideration of source code is not available. Veracode supports multi-languages which includes .NET (C#, ASP.NET, VB.NET), Java (Java SE, Java EE, JSP), C/C++, JavaScript (including AngularJS, Node.js, and jQuery), Python, PHP, Ruby on Rails, ColdFusion, Classic ASP, including mobile applications on the iOS and Android platforms and written in JavaScript cross platform frameworks.

4. YASCA

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“Yet Another Source Code Analyzer (YASCA)” is an open source stactic code analysis tool which supports HTML, Java, JavaScript, .NET, COBOL, PHP, ColdFusion, ASP, C/C++ and some other languages. It is an easy to extend and a flexible tool which can integrate with variety of other tools which includes CppCheck, Pixy, RATS, PHPLint, JavaScript Lint, JLint, FindBugs and various others.
5. Cppcheck

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Cppcheck is an open source static code analysis tool for C/C++. Cppcheck basically identifies the sorts of bugs that the compilers regularly don’t recognize. The objective is to identify just genuine mistakes in the code. It provides both interface command line mode and graphical user interface (GUI) mode and has possiblitites for environment integration. Some of them are Eclipse, Hudson, Jenkins, Visual Studio.

6. Clang

 

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Clang is also one of the best static code analysis tool for C, C++ and objective-C. This analyzer can be run either as standalone tool or within Xcode. It is an open source tool and a part of the clang project. It utilizes the clank library, hence forming a reusable component and can be utilized by multiple clients.

7. RIPS

 

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RIPS is a static code analyzer tool to detect different types for security vulnerabilities in PHP codes. RIPS also provide integrated code audit framework for manual analysis. It is an open source tool too and can be controlled via web interface.
8. Flawfinder
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Flawfinder is also one of the best static analysis tool for C/C++. This tool is easy to use and wel designed. It reports possible security vulnerabilities sorted by risk level. It is an open source tool written in python and use command line interface.
9. DevBug
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DevBug is an online PHP static code analyser which is very easy to use and written on Javascript. It was intended to make essential PHP Static Code Analysis accessible on the web, to raise security mindfulness and to incorporate SCA into the development procedure. This analyser tool is also available in open source.

10. SonarQube

 

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SonarQube is one of the best and well known open source web based static code analysis tool, it can scan projects written in many different programming languages including  ABAP, Android (Java), C, C++, CSS, Objective-C, COBOL, C#, Flex, Forms, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Natural, PHP, PL/SQL, Swift, Visual Basic 6, Web, XML, Python and also allows a number of plug ins. What makes SonarQube really stand out is that It provides metrics about your code which will to help you to take the right decision and translates these non-descript values to real business values such as risk and technical debt.
So, above we mentioned top selective static code analysis tools which can be helpful, but if you think this lists should contain some other tools than feel free to share in comment box.
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Top 10 DevOps Online Resources to learn, share and practice.

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DevOps is a hot topic these days among-st IT professionals and when you as a student or professional who is related to this industry go to Google and search about “DevOps” you get (About 1,55,00,000 results (0.42 seconds)) results. So, this is not a tough job to find DevOps related resources. But when you need to find best resources for DevOps learning, practicing and want to surround yourself with DevOps like minded people than it is really a tough job to find. So, Let me make this task easy for you.  I did some research and made lists of Top 10 DevOps resources where you can learn, practice, share, discuss and get latest updates and news online about DevOps.
So, Here is the list of top 10 DevOps resources, Just explore
scmGalaxy is a one stop portal for DevOps learning where you can find DevOps tutorials, DevOps courses, certifications, trainers, study materials and much more all in one place. They are the largest scm, DevOps, Build & Release community worldwide. They have well designed DevOps courses and certification programs and well known dedicated DevOps trainers which will help you to become best DevOps engineers. scmGalaxy provide all there services for many citites and countries in the world, some of them are Hyderabad, Bangalore, London, Amsterdam, Mumbai, Singapore, san francisco, Europe, Australia etc. They give there participants life time access for there tutorials and they can attend future classes without any extra charges even after completing there training. I also checked scmGalaxy reviews and testimonials on various platforms like FB, Linkedin, YouTube and on other paltforms too and after reading that I can say that they are one of the best resources for DevOps learning and deserve to be in our list.
DevOps school is also amongst those who provide training and certification for DevOps courses. But why do I keep it in my list? The reason is when you go there website the first thing which will be noticed, there tutorials tab, which shows there wish to help participants with DevOps related issues which can be acccessed without any charges. Isn,t it great? DevOps school also provides quizes, videos, assignments, courses, training and certifications for DevOps. I checked there reviews and testimonials on various paltforms find there services spotless. The participants who attended there training sessions reviewed them one of the best schools for DevOps training.
If you want yourself to be the first to get updated with latest DevOps related news than this is the paltform. BestDevOps is a DevOps updates and news platform where you can read about DevOps related updates, events, news, tutorials, tips and much more. This platform is quite new but when you browse you can find lots of DevOps content which will be very helpful if you are a DevOps enthusiast. They update on regular basis with authentcity. You don’t need to go anywhere else or in google for search just give few minutes to this portal and you can have all the updates for the day.
DevOpso is a community based website which provides space to devops practitioners to share their stories, practices, discussions and tips around the world. This platform is very active with DevOps experts. You can find solutions and can do discussions on DevOps related topics with members just by joining this platform. I browsed there site and find there are a lot of DevOps related issues posted there and community members come up with some great solutions. I can say this community site should be in your list if you want to surround yourself with DevOps like minded peoples.
Linkdin as we all know, this is a place where you can find all professional networks. So this lnkedin group is also one of the place where you can get connnected with DevOps peoples. In this linkedin group, there are many highly active members who frequently respond to discussions, post the latest DevOps articles and blog posts, and who are welcoming towards new members of the group.
Facebook which does not need any introduction, as it is a leading social media platform worldwide. So here you can also surround yourself with DevOps professionals and practitioners. This facebook group is one of the leading DevOps group you can join and get updated with DevOps posts, articles, tips and do discussion on DevOps topics with active members around the globe.
Google groups are also one of the place where you can join DevOps practioners online. You can join this group which is one of the most popular DevOps group and continuously growing with new members globally. It’s shows that members gets here quality content on DevOps. You can find webinars, Demo sessions, tips, articles and much more in this group.
Amazon AWS offers various web related services. The size and reach of Amazon Web Services justifies itself. They provides reliable, scalable, and inexpensive cloud computing services. They have 2 blogging platforms in which one is decicated to AWS Architecture and other one is dedicated to technology. You can follow their posts monitor the discussions so that you can respond, comment, and learn.
If you are a DevOps guy than you must heard about Puppet or Puppet Lab. Puppet is widely supported open source cofiguration management tool. If you explore Puppet Labs site than you can find there is a hefty amount of documentation and other information for the program and DevOps in general. So, I consider there site as a great paltform and is worth checking out.
10. Docker
Docker is an IT revolutionary tool, Docker pioneered the concept of containers. If you take a look on Docker site you can read about the container technologies and also understand the uses of Docker. They have there blog platform where they post about containerization and various other DevOps related informations which can not be missed if you are a DevOps enthusiast.
So, It doesn’t matter whether you are just starting out or an experienced professional, You should check above mentioned resources on regular basis and If you know about any other resources which you think should be listed then feel free to share with us.
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