5 Unsung Tools of DevOps

Jonathan Thurman

Nov 2013 · "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

About this ebook

The tools we use play a critical role in how effective we are. In today’s ever-changing world of technology, we tend to focus on the latest and greatest solutions and overlook the simple tools that are available. Constant improvement of tools is an important aspect of the DevOps movement, but improvement doesn’t always warrant replacement.

The tools presented in 5 Unsung Tools of DevOps provide insight into or control over a DevOps environment--and they require minimal installation and configuration. They're not the flashiest tools, but they're time tested and just work.

Ratings and reviews

A short white paper. The author has worked with multiple server configurations on the network side. The set of tools listed perform useful tasks. (Rancid cacti lldpd iperf mussh)

Nice monitoring essentials intro.

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About the author

Jonathan Thurman is a Site Reliability Engineer at New Relic where he applies his systems, networking, and coding skills to automate their infrastructure. For the last 15 years, he has worked on a variety of projects including unified communications, performance testing, automation, and scaling for the Web.