I usually shy away from giving a list of tools that we use because people have their particular tool preferences and are sometimes indignant in considering others. However, I realize it’s helpful for people to understand the tool landscape when it comes to Continuous Delivery in the Cloud just so they know where to start looking. After reading my Continuous Integration book, this is often the most common question I get from readers.
I want to say up front that I’m not advocating the use of any of these tools, just that we’ve used some of the tools or investigated when creating Continuous Delivery systems. I’m sure some of the tools that we use on a daily basis won’t make it to this list.
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Application Containers – JBoss, Tomcat, IIS, Mongrel. NOTE: there are so many app containers, I’m not going to try to list all of them.
Build Tools – Ant, AntContrib, NAnt, MSBuild, Buildr, Gant, Gradle, make, Maven, Rake
Code Review – Crucible
Code Insight – Fisheye
Continuous Integration – Bamboo, CodeShip, Jenkins, AntHill Pro, Go, TeamCity, TFS 2010
Cloud IaaS – AWS EC2, AWS S3 , Windows Azure
Cloud PaaS – Google App Engine, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Heroku
Database – Hibernate, MySQL, Liquibase, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, SimpleDB, SQL Azure, Ant, MongoDB
Database Change Management – dbdeploy, Liquibase
Infrastructure Automation – Capistrano, Cobbler, BMC Bladelogic, CFEngine, IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager, Puppet, Chef, Bcfg2, AWS Cloud Formation, Windows Azure AppFabric NOTE: There are many names and overlap for this tool “category”.
Dependency Management – Ivy, Archiva, Nexus, Artifactory, Bundler
Deployment Automation – Java Secure Channel, ControlTier, Altiris, Capistrano, Fabric, Func
Information Sharing – Confluence, Google Apps
Installer – InstallShield, IzPack
Integrated Development Environment (IDE) – Eclipse, IDEA, Visual Studio
Issue Tracking – Greenhopper, JIRA
Multi-Type – rPath
Passwords – PassPack, PasswordSafe
Protected Configuration – ESCAPE, ConfigGen
Project Management – JIRA, Pivotal Tracker, SmartSheet
Provisioning – JEOS, BoxGrinder, CLIP, Eucalyptus, AppLogic
Reporting/Documentation – Doxygen, Grand, GraphViz, JavaDoc, NDoc, SchemaSpy, UmlGraph
Static Analysis – CheckStyle, Clover, Cobertura, FindBugs, FxCop, JavaNCSS, JDepend, PMD, Sonar, Simian
Systems Monitoring – CloudKick, Nagios, Zabbix, Zenoss
Testing – AntUnit, Cucumber, DbUnit, webrat, easyb, Fitnesse, JMeter, JUnit, NBehave, SoapUI, Selenium, RSpec, SauceLabs
Version-Control System – SVN/Subversion, git, Perforce
Resource Management – Cloud Custodian