Top 10 uncommon DevOps tools you should know

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Insomnia REST

I bet you all know Postman for API design, right? I prefer Insomnia.rest since they’ve taken the extra mile to open-source the complete application and integrations through their plugin hub. I know it’s a bit more popular nowadays, but I started using this when there were just a few thousand stars, and it got better and better over the years. I think the trend will keep up.

#API Tools #API #Developer Tools 120 social mentions

2

Infracost

If you’re a Terraform fan, you’ll love this one. What if I tell you you can couple your infrastructure as code with bill forecasting? Sounds fantastic, huh? That’s what infracost.io is all about: it will scan through your Terraform files when you commit some changes to git and estimate the resulting billing of your changes! Pretty handy to have before getting unpleasant surprises.

#Developer Tools #GitHub #Web App 2 social mentions

3

Hubot

Hubot is kind of old (at least in software terms!), but I’m amazed at how few people know about the ChatOps model. From 10000 thousand feet perspective, it’s just automation through your go-to chat software (discord, slack, rocketchat, mattermost, etc.), and Hubot paved the way to other similar tools. Maybe it’s less relevant today, but I find an interesting concept nonetheless (I love automation in any form it can take) that can solve a few issues, especially for less technical people.

#CRM #Chatbot Platforms & Tools #Chatbots 1 social mentions

4

sshuttle

Sshuttle is an excellent tool that acts as a “poor man” VPN, allowing you to create a VPN connection from your machine to any remote server you can connect to via ssh. The exciting part is that it is not precisely a VPN and not exactly port forwarding. Internally it assembles the TCP stream locally, multiplexes it statefully over an ssh session, and disassembles it back into packets at the other end to achieve data-over-TCP, which is safe. Useful if your VPN breaks down.

#VPN #Security #Cloud VPN 25 social mentions

5

Chaos Toolkit

As a DevOps (and software engineer), I find chaos engineering one of the most relevant and thrilling topics to study right now. Chaostoolkit it’s a perfect way to introduce into this world through a straightforward and flexible command-line tool and a way to define experiments with declarative files that you can version.

#Developer Tools #Website Performance Monitoring #Security 4 social mentions