35+ Of The Best CI/CD Tools: Organized By Category

1

Buddy

Buddy allows engineers to build and manage complex CI/CD pipelines. However, the bulk of its popularity lies in its ability to give engineers direct deployment access to public repositories such as GitHub. Buddy’s user interface is simple and intuitive.

#Continuous Integration #DevOps Tools #Software Development 10 social mentions

2

Jenkins

Spinnaker is an open-source continuous delivery tool. It can be used to deploy your applications across multiple cloud providers. It’s quite clear that Spinnaker was made with CI/CD pipelines in mind. You can automate system tests, manage your rollouts, and trigger pipelines through git events. Additionally, it’s compatible with CRON, Travis CI, Jenkins, and Docker.

#DevOps Tools #Continuous Integration #Continuous Deployment 5 social mentions

3

CircleCI

CircleCI is a complete CI/CD pipeline tool. You can monitor the statuses of your various pipelines from your dashboard. Additionally, CircleCI helps you manage your build logs, access controls, and testing. It’s one of the most popular DevOps and CI/CD platforms in the world.

#Continuous Integration #Continuous Deployment #DevOps Tools 61 social mentions

4

LayerCI

LayerCI will create automated demo environments to help you quickly review your changes and weed out any bugs. LayerCI supports GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket repositories.

#Continuous Integration #Continuous Deployment #DevOps Tools 3 social mentions

5

Bamboo

With Bamboo, you can run build-tasks in parallel or sequentially. Bamboo also provides you with extensive tools to create your build and manage automatic pipelines. Additionally, Bamboo comes with very comprehensive reports and notifications.

#Continuous Integration #DevOps Tools #Continuous Deployment

6

TeamCity

TeamCity was developed by Jetbrains as an affordable CI/CD solution for software engineering teams and individuals. It is available as a software-based self-hosted on-premise solution or via a managed cloud service.

#DevOps Tools #Continuous Integration #Continuous Deployment

HashiCorp Packer is the most well-rounded CI/CD pipeline build tool in this section. It automates the creation of multiple machine images. It’s extensible and pluggable. You can add builders, data sources, post-processors, and provisioners with plugins.

8

AWS Cost Explorer

AWS cost explorer gives you easy-to-understand visual tools to help you analyze and manage your AWS costs. You can sort and group your figures according to usage type and tags. Results can be viewed daily or grouped by month.

#Monitoring Tools #Log Management #Auditing And Compliance 21 social mentions

9

ParkMyCloud

#Monitoring Tools #Project Management #Task Management 1 social mentions

10

Amazon CloudWatch

Amazon CloudWatch is a detection solution for AWS cloud applications and other resources. For instance, you can use it to monitor Amazon services such as EC2. It will automatically alert and inform you of any anomalies it detects. Additionally, Amazon CloudWatch gives you the ability to track and collect metrics.

#Monitoring Tools #Log Management #Performance Monitoring 54 social mentions

11

ProsperOps

ProsperOps is a relatively new cost optimization tool for AWS. It features a free non-invasive savings analysis solution that pulls detailed data that would take a team at least a week to manually compile.

#Auditing And Compliance #Cloud Computing #Cloud Management

12

Asana

Asana is a fairly popular task management service. It helps teams coordinate and synchronize their work. This can range from daily tasks to special projects. It’s available in the form of a desktop application, web application, and mobile application.

#Project Management #Task Management #Work Management 86 social mentions

13

Aha

AHA! is a product management software suite that specializes in roadmap creation. You can create strategic business models, delegate tasks, visualize the timing, collaborate, and crowdsource ideas from customers and colleagues.

#Roadmaps #Product Roadmap #Project Management 3 social mentions

HashiCorp Packer is the most well-rounded CI/CD pipeline build tool in this section. It automates the creation of multiple machine images. It’s extensible and pluggable. You can add builders, data sources, post-processors, and provisioners with plugins.

15

Trello

With Trello, you can assign tasks, create timelines, create reports with productivity metrics, and organize your team or project calendars. In addition to this, Trello features AI that helps eliminate repetitive tasks. You can connect Trello with applications such as Slack, Dropbox, Confluence, Google Drive, and Evernote.

#Project Management #Task Management #Productivity 231 social mentions

16

Pivotal Tracker

Pivotal Tracker is an Agile management tool that has been around since 1989. Once again, it proves that some of Agile’s concepts still translate very well to CI/CD methodology. While the user interface may feel a little simplistic and outdated, Pivotal Tracker has the functionality to compete with the best of them.

#Project Management #Task Management #Work Management

17

Puppet Enterprise

For those who are unfamiliar, Puppet Enterprise is the commercial version of Puppet, an open-source software management tool. It specializes in the automation of not just the configuration process but can also be used for patching, provisioning, and deployment.

#DevOps Tools #Continuous Integration And Delivery #Developer Tools 1 social mentions

18

Terraform

Terraform is compatible with a wide range of Cloud providers, including Azure, VMWare, and AWS. If you’re subscribed to multiple cloud providers, Terraform is a great way to ensure that they have consistent configurations.

#DevOps Tools #Developer Tools #Continuous Integration And Delivery 31 social mentions

19

Cfengine

CFEngine is the most cut and dry configuration management software on this list. It was originally released in 1993 and has managed to keep up with software development trends. CFEngine features full CI/CD integration. You can automate infrastructure configurations and manage your patches. It also features compliance reporting and infrastructure hardening.

#DevOps Tools #Product Deployment #IT Automation 5 social mentions

20

Red Hat Ansible

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21

Rudder

Rudder is an open-source web-based configuration management tool. It allows for continuous audit and enforcement. Rudder comprises a full feature web-based interface. In addition to this, it features standardized, reusable policies, a custom policy editor, central reporting, grouping based on search queries, and per-host policies.

#DevOps Tools #IT Automation #Dev Ops

22

UrbanCode Deploy

UrbanCode Deploy is a deployment automation tool. As a company, UrbanCode has been around since 1996. They’ve survived this long by keeping up to date and connected with the open-source community along with the latest practices.

#DevOps Tools #Continuous Integration #Continuous Deployment

23

DeployBot

You can use DeployBot to build your code. It will fetch dependencies from repositories such as Node.JS, Composer, and NPM. It has New Relic and Bugsnag integration, which helps you keep a close eye on the stability of your deployments. DeployBot also integrates with services such as Slack to deliver automatic notifications.

#Continuous Integration #DevOps Tools #Continuous Deployment 4 social mentions

24

RunDeck

RunDeck is an operations automation platform. It doesn’t just manage deployments but several processes in the CI/CD pipeline. It’s great for creating standard operating procedures and synchronizing actions across all your enterprise’s various scripts, tools, and APIs. RunDeck is particularly suited for companies planning to migrate to cloud services.

#DevOps Tools #Continuous Integration And Delivery #Continuous Integration

25

Juju

What makes Juju unique is its approach. CI/CD pipelines for large companies can be complex. Juju uses what is known as charms to deploy infrastructure and code. It supports AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle.

#DevOps Tools #Developer Tools #Continuous Integration And Delivery

26

Apache Maven

Apache Maven is a software build automation and project management tool. It’s popular among the open-source and Java community. Maven allows you to build and deploy code in Scala, Ruby, Java, C#, Python, etc.

#DevOps Tools #Continuous Integration #Continuous Deployment 51 social mentions

27

Docker

Docker’s SaaS offering is made up of three components — software, objects, and registries. Within its suite, it offers three core tools — Docker Compose, Docker Swarm, and Docker Volume.

#Developer Tools #Containers As A Service #Container Tools 62 social mentions

28

Apache Ant

Apache Ant (“Another Neat Tool”) is the oldest tool on this list and it can be considered a precursor to Maven. Just like Maven, it was written entirely in Java. ANT uses XML to define the code build process. While ANT is primarily a JAVA build tool, it can be used to define processes and build C++, C, and C# applications.

#DevOps Tools #Continuous Integration #Continuous Deployment 6 social mentions

HashiCorp Packer is the most well-rounded CI/CD pipeline build tool in this section. It automates the creation of multiple machine images. It’s extensible and pluggable. You can add builders, data sources, post-processors, and provisioners with plugins.

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Grunt

Grunt is also extensible. It has a large library of community-created plugins. Working with Grunt as a novice user can be daunting. Luckily, Grunt has a thriving community and ecosystem that is ready to assist you with any queries.

#JS Build Tools #Front End Package Manager #Web Application Bundler 14 social mentions

31

Amazon AWS

AWS cost explorer gives you easy-to-understand visual tools to help you analyze and manage your AWS costs. You can sort and group your figures according to usage type and tags. Results can be viewed daily or grouped by month.

#Cloud Computing #Cloud Infrastructure #IaaS 360 social mentions

32

Morpheus

Morpheus is a cloud management platform with a focus on cloud migration. It’s a self-service platform for hybrid cloud application orchestration. Morpheus allows you to enable private cloud and control public cloud access to teams provisions on demand.

#Developer Tools #Cloud Computing #DevOps Tools 2 social mentions

33

OpenStack

OpenStack is a cloud framework. It provides users and enterprises with horizontal scale infrastructure. Its tools allow you to compute, store and share data and resources. It also provides self-service administration that users can interact with directly.

#Cloud Computing #Cloud Infrastructure #VPS 2 social mentions

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Google Cloud Platform

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) allows engineers to create and host programs and websites. It also allows you to analyze and store data using Google’s computing infrastructure. GCP has over one hundred products and tools separated into three core categories — compute, storage, and machine learning.

#Cloud Computing #Backend As A Service #Cloud Infrastructure 167 social mentions

35

Dokku

Dokku is a great alternative if you’re working with a stringent budget. It’s a miniaturized self-hosted platform as a service. You can deploy applications to it using Git. Because it’s a Heroku derivative, it’s compatible with Heroku apps.

#IT Automation #Backend As A Service #PaaS 12 social mentions