A guide for getting started with Chef including the Tools and Applications that will make you a better and more efficient engineer with Chef.
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Chef Workstation is a tool that gives you everything you need to get started with Chef - ad hoc remote execution, remote scanning, configuration tasks, cookbook creation tools as well as robust dependency and testing software - all in one easy-to-install package.
Chef Infrastructure Management is a tool that enables DevOps teams to model and deploy secure and scalable infrastructure automation across any cloud, VM, and/or physical infrastructure.
Chef Infra agent is a self-updating, self-automating and works well in low bandwidth or remote environments. It also allows Chef to scale up and down as customers’ demands change. Security keys are managed and rotated regularly using Chef automated cookbooks which allows admins to turn off port access to SSH and WinRM further securing their environments in line with recommendations from industry standards like CIS (Center for Internet Security) benchmarks.
Chef Compliance is service that helps enterprises maintain compliance and prevent security incidents across heterogeneous estates while improving speed and efficiency. Chef Compliance makes it easier than ever to maintain and enforce compliance across the enterprise, with standards-based audit and remediation content, easily tuned baselines to adapt to the organization’s needs, and visibility and control across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
Chef InSpec is a tool that provides a language for describing security and compliance rules that can be shared between software engineers, operations, and security engineers. It also includes compliance, security, and other policy requirements become automated tests that can be run against traditional servers, containers, and cloud APIs, ensuring enforced consistent standards in every managed environment, at every stage of development.
Chef Desktop is a that allows IT resource managers to automate the deployment, management, and secure maintenance of any large fleet of IT resources such as laptops, desktops, and kiosk workstations from a centralized location. With Chef Desktop, organizations can gain control over IT resources, ease the management burden, and ensure compliance to minimize risk.
Chef App Delivery is an automation solution that enables companies to apply a technology agnostic and modular approach to defining, packaging and delivering application and infrastructure across on-prem, hybrid and cloud environments. Chef App Delivery frees DevOps teams from technical debt and antiquated processes, enabling them to deliver successful business outcomes across their entire IT estate.
Chef Habitat is an open source solution that provides automation capabilities for defining, packaging and delivering applications to almost any environment regardless of operating system or deployment platform.
Chef Automate is a service that provides a single dashboard and analytics for infrastructure automation, Chef Habitat for application automation, and Chef InSpec for security and compliance automation. It also measurably increases the ability to deliver software quickly, increasing speed and efficiency while decreasing risk.
AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate is a tool that provides a fully managed Chef Automate server and suite of automation tools that give you workflow automation for continuous deployment, automated testing for compliance and security, and a user interface that gives you visibility into your nodes and their status.
Open Container Initiative is an open governance structure for the express purpose of creating open industry standards around container formats and runtimes.
Buildah is a command line tool to build Open Container Initiative (OCI) images. It can be used with Docker, Podman, Kubernetes.
Podman is a daemonless, open source, Linux native tool designed to make it easy to find, run, build, share and deploy applications using Open Containers Initiative (OCI) Containers and Container Images. Podman provides a command line interface (CLI) familiar to anyone who has used the Docker Container Engine.
Containerdis a daemon that manages the complete container lifecycle of its host system, from image transfer and storage to container execution and supervision to low-level storage to network attachments and beyond. It is available for Linux and Windows.
OKD is a community distribution of Kubernetes optimized for continuous application development and multi-tenant deployment. OKD adds developer and operations-centric tools on top of Kubernetes to enable rapid application development, easy deployment and scaling, and long-term lifecycle maintenance for small and large teams.
Red Hat OpenShift is an open source container application platform based on the Kubernetes container orchestrator for enterprise app development and deployment in the hybrid cloud Red Hat OpenShift, the open hybrid cloud platform built on Kubernetes. OpenShift CLI (oc) is a command line interface tool that extends the capabilities of kubectl with many convenience functions that make interacting with both Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters easier.
Azure Red Hat OpenShift is a flexible, self-service deployment of fully managed OpenShift clusters. Maintain regulatory compliance and focus on your application development, while your master, infrastructure, and application nodes are patched, updated, and monitored by both Microsoft and Red Hat.
OpenShift Serverless CLI (kn) is a command line interface tool to deploy serverless applications, then you’ll want access and control via the kn command.
OpenShift Pipelines CLI (tkn) is a command line interface tool for using Tekton to provide cloud-native CI/CD functionality within the cluster. The tkn command is used to manage the functionality from the CLI.
Red Hat CodeReady Containers is an option to host a local, all-in-one OpenShift 4 cluster on your workstation. CodeReady Containers replaces minishift, used to run OpenShift 3 clusters on your workstation, as a quick and easy method of creating test and development clusters.
Helm CLI is a command line interface tool for deploying and managing Kubernetes applications to your clusters.
OpenShift Hive is an operator which runs as a service on top of Kubernetes/OpenShift. The Hive service can be used to provision and perform initial configuration of OpenShift 4 clusters.
OpenShift Service Mesh is a tool that provides a layer on top of OpenShift for securely connecting services in a consistent manner. This provides centralized control, security and observability across your services without having to modify your applications.
Red Hat® Quay is a secure, private container registry that builds, analyzes and distributes container images. It provides a high level of automation and customization.
Kata Operator is an operator to perform lifecycle management (install/upgrade/uninstall) of Kata Runtime on Openshift as well as Kubernetes cluster.
Ansibleis a simple IT automation engine that automates cloud provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, intra-service orchestration, and many other IT needs. It uses a very simple language (YAML, in the form of Ansible Playbooks) that allows you to describe your automation jobs in a way that approaches plain English. Anisble works on Linux (Red Hat EnterPrise Linux(RHEL) and Ubuntu) and Microsoft Windows.
Ansible cmdb is a tool that takes the output of Ansible’s fact gathering and converts it into a static HTML overview page containing system configuration information.
Ansible Inventory Grapher visually displays inventory inheritance hierarchies and at what level a variable is defined in inventory.
Ansible Playbook Grapher is a command line tool to create a graph representing your Ansible playbook tasks and roles.
Ansible Shell is an interactive shell for Ansible with built-in tab completion for all the modules.
Ansible Silo is a self-contained Ansible environment by Docker.
Ansigenome is a command line tool designed to help you manage your Ansible roles.
ARA is a records Ansible playbook runs and makes the recorded data available and intuitive for users and systems by integrating with Ansible as a callback plugin.
GitHub provides hosting for software development version control using Git. It offers all of the distributed version control and source code management functionality of Git as well as adding its own features. It provides access control and several collaboration features such as bug tracking, feature requests, task management, and wikis for every project.
GitHub Codespaces is an integrated development environment(IDE) on GitHub. That allows developers to develop entirely in the cloud using Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code.
GitHub Actions will automate, customize, and execute your software development workflows right in your repository with GitHub Actions. You can discover, create, and share actions to perform any job you'd like, including CI/CD, and combine actions in a completely customized workflow.GitHub Actions for Azure you can create workflows that you can set up in your repository to build, test, package, release and deploy to Azure.Learn more about all other integrations with Azure.
GitLab is a web-based DevOps lifecycle tool that provides a Git-repository manager providing wiki, issue-tracking and CI/CD pipeline features, using an open-source license, developed by GitLab Inc.
Jenkins is a free and open source automation server. Jenkins helps to automate the non-human part of the software development process, with continuous integration and facilitating technical aspects of continuous delivery.
Bitbucket is a web-based version control repository hosting service owned by Atlassian, for source code and development projects that use either Mercurial or Git revision control systems. Bitbucket offers both commercial plans and free accounts. It offers free accounts with an unlimited number of private repositories. Bitbucket integrates with other Atlassian software like Jira, HipChat, Confluence and Bamboo.
Bamboo is a continuous integration (CI) server that can be used to automate the release management for a software application, creating a continuous delivery pipeline.
Codecov is the leading, dedicated code coverage solution. It provides highly integrated tools to group, merge, archive and compare coverage reports. Whether your team is comparing changes in a pull request or reviewing a single commit, Codecov will improve the code review workflow and quality.
Drone is a Continuous Delivery system built on container technology. Drone uses a simple YAML configuration file, a superset of docker-compose, to define and execute Pipelines inside Docker containers.
Travis CI is a hosted continuous integration service used to build and test software projects hosted at GitHub.
Circle CI is a continuous integration and continuous delivery platform that helps software teams work smarter, faster.
Zuul-CI is a program that drives continuous integration, delivery, and deployment systems with a focus on project gating and interrelated projects. Using the same Ansible playbooks to deploy your system and run your tests.
Artifactory is a Universal Artifact Repository Manager developed by JFrog. It supports all major packages, enterprise ready security, clustered, HA, Docker registry, multi-site replication and scalable.
Team City is a build management and continuous integration server from JetBrains.
Shippable simplifies DevOps and makes it systematic with an Assembly Line platform that is heterogeneous, flexible, and provides complete visibility across your DevOps workflows.
Spinnaker is an open source, multi-cloud continuous delivery platform for releasing software changes with high velocity and confidence.
AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages that are ready to deploy. With CodeBuild, you don't need to provision, manage, and scale your own build servers.
Selenium is a free (open source) automated testing suite for web applications across different browsers and platforms.
Cucumber is a tool based on Behavior Driven Development (BDD) framework which is used to write acceptance tests for the web application. It allows automation of functional validation in easily readable and understandable format (like plain English) to Business Analysts, Developers, and Testers.
JUnit is a unit testing framework for the Java programming language.
Mocha is a JavaScript test framework for Node.js programs, featuring browser support, asynchronous testing, test coverage reports, and use of any assertion library.
Karma is a simple tool that allows you to execute JavaScript code in multiple real browsers.
Jasmine is an open source testing framework for JavaScript. It aims to run on any JavaScript-enabled platform, to not intrude on the application nor the IDE, and to have easy-to-read syntax.
Maven is a build automation tool used primarily for Java projects. Maven can also be used to build and manage projects written in C#, Ruby, Scala, and other languages. The Maven project is hosted by the Apache Software Foundation.
Gradle is an open-source build-automation system that builds upon the concepts of Apache Ant and Apache Maven and introduces a Groovy-based domain-specific language instead of the XML form used by Apache Maven for declaring the project configuration.
KubeInit provides Ansible playbooks and roles for the deployment and configuration of multiple Kubernetes distributions.
Salt is Python-based, open-source software for event-driven IT automation, remote task execution, and configuration management. Supporting the "Infrastructure as Code" approach to data center system and network deployment and management, configuration automation, SecOps orchestration, vulnerability remediation, and hybrid cloud control.
Terraform is an open-source infrastructure as code software tool created by HashiCorp.It enables users to define and provision a datacenter infrastructure using a high-level configuration language known as Hashicorp Configuration Language (HCL), or optionally JSON.
Consul is a service networking solution to connect and secure services across any runtime platform and public or private cloud.
Packer is lightweight, runs on every major operating system, and is highly performant, creating machine images for multiple platforms in parallel. Packer does not replace configuration management like Chef or Puppet. In fact, when building images, Packer is able to use tools like Chef or Puppet to install software onto the image.
Nomad is a highly available, distributed, data-center aware cluster and application scheduler designed to support the modern datacenter with support for long-running services, batch jobs, and much more.
Vagrant is a tool for building and managing virtual machine environments in a single workflow. With an easy-to-use workflow and focus on automation, Vagrant lowers development environment setup time and increases production parity.
Vault is a tool for securely accessing secrets. A secret is anything that you want to tightly control access to, such as API keys, passwords, certificates, and more. Vault provides a unified interface to any secret, while providing tight access control and recording a detailed audit log.
CFEngine is an open-source configuration management system, written by Mark Burgess.Its primary function is to provide automated configuration and maintenance of large-scale computer systems, including the unified management of servers, desktops, consumer and industrial devices, embedded networked devices, mobile smartphones, and tablet computers.
Octpus Deploy is the deployment automation server for your entire team, designed to make it easy to orchestrate releases and deploy applications, whether on-premises or in the cloud.
AWS CodeDeploy is a fully managed deployment service that automates software deployments to a variety of compute services such as Amazon EC2, AWS Fargate, AWS Lambda, and your on-premises servers. AWS CodeDeploy makes it easier for you to rapidly release new features, helps you avoid downtime during application deployment, and handles the complexity of updating your applications.
Kubernetes is an open-source container-orchestration system for automating application deployment, scaling, and management. It was originally designed by Google, and is now maintained by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.
Docker is a set of platform as a service products that use OS-level virtualization to deliver software in packages called containers. Containers are isolated from one another and bundle their own software, libraries and configuration files; they can communicate with each other through well-defined channels. All containers are run by a single operating-system kernel and are thus more lightweight than virtual machines.
Cloud Hypervisor is an open source Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM) that runs on top of KVM. The project focuses on exclusively running modern, cloud workloads, on top of a limited set of hardware architectures and platforms. Cloud workloads refers to those that are usually run by customers inside a cloud provider. Cloud Hypervisor is implemented in Rust and is based on the rust-vmm crates.
VMware vSphere Hypervisor is a bare-metal hypervisor that virtualizes servers; allowing you to consolidate your applications while saving time and money managing your IT infrastructure.
VMware vSphere is the industry-leading compute virtualization platform, and your first step to application modernization. It has been rearchitected with native Kubernetes to allow customers to modernize the 70 million+ workloads now running on vSphere.
VMware Tanzu is a centralized management platform for consistently operating and securing your Kubernetes infrastructure and modern applications across multiple teams and private/public clouds.
Rancher is a complete software stack for teams adopting containers. It addresses the operational and security challenges of managing multiple Kubernetes clusters, while providing DevOps teams with integrated tools for running containerized workloads.
K3s is a highly available, certified Kubernetes distribution designed for production workloads in unattended, resource-constrained, remote locations or inside IoT appliances.
Rook is an open source cloud-native storage orchestrator for Kubernetes that turns distributed storage systems into self-managing, self-scaling, self-healing storage services. It automates the tasks of a storage administrator: deployment, bootstrapping, configuration, provisioning, scaling, upgrading, migration, disaster recovery, monitoring, and resource management.
Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) is a managed, production-ready environment for deploying containerized applications.
Anthos is a modern application management platform that provides a consistent development and operations experience for cloud and on-premises environments.
AWS ECS is a highly scalable, high-performance container orchestration service that supports Docker containers and allows you to easily run and scale containerized applications on AWS. Amazon ECS eliminates the need for you to install and operate your own container orchestration software, manage and scale a cluster of virtual machines, or schedule containers on those virtual machines.
Apache Mesos is a cluster manager that provides efficient resource isolation and sharing across distributed applications, or frameworks. It can run Hadoop, Jenkins, Spark, Aurora, and other frameworks on a dynamically shared pool of nodes.
Apache Spark is a unified analytics engine for big data processing, with built-in modules for streaming, SQL, machine learning and graph processing.
Apache Hadoop is a framework that allows for the distributed processing of large data sets across clusters of computers using simple programming models. It is designed to scale up from single servers to thousands of machines, each offering local computation and storage. Rather than rely on hardware to deliver high-availability, the library itself is designed to detect and handle failures at the application layer, so delivering a highly-available service on top of a cluster of computers, each of which may be prone to failures.
Rkt is a pod-native container engine for Linux. It is composable, secure, and built on standards.
AWS Lambda is an event-driven, serverless computing platform provided by Amazon as a part of the Amazon Web Services. It is a computing service that runs code in response to events and automatically manages the computing resources required by that code.
Helm is the Kubernetes Package Manager.
Kubespray is a tool that combines Kubernetes and Ansible to easily install Kubernetes clusters that can be deployed on AWS, GCE, Azure, OpenStack, vSphere, Packet (bare metal), Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (Experimental), or Baremetal
OKD is a community distribution of Kubernetes optimized for continuous application development and multi-tenant deployment. OKD adds developer and operations-centric tools on top of Kubernetes to enable rapid application development, easy deployment and scaling, and long-term lifecycle maintenance for small and large teams.
Odo is a fast, iterative, and straightforward CLI tool for developers who write, build, and deploy applications on Kubernetes and OpenShift.
Knative is a Kubernetes-based platform to build, deploy, and manage modern serverless workloads. Knative takes care of the operational overhead details of networking, autoscaling (even to zero), and revision tracking.
Etcd is a distributed key-value store that provides a reliable way to store data that needs to be accessed by a distributed system or cluster of machines. Etcd is used as the backend for service discovery and stores cluster state and configuration for Kubernetes.
OpenStack is a free and open-source software platform for cloud computing, mostly deployed as infrastructure-as-a-service that controls large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources throughout a datacenter, managed through a dashboard or via the OpenStack API. OpenStack works with popular enterprise and open source technologies making it ideal for heterogeneous infrastructure.
Cloud Foundry is an open source, multi cloud application platform as a service that makes it faster and easier to build, test, deploy and scale applications, providing a choice of clouds, developer frameworks, and application services. It is an open source project and is available through a variety of private cloud distributions and public cloud instances.
Splunk software is used for searching, monitoring, and analyzing machine-generated big data, via a Web-style interface.
Prometheus is a free software application used for event monitoring and alerting. It records real-time metrics in a time series database (allowing for high dimensionality) built using a HTTP pull model, with flexible queries and real-time alerting.
Loki is a horizontally-scalable, highly-available, multi-tenant log aggregation system inspired by Prometheus. It is designed to be very cost effective and easy to operate. It does not index the contents of the logs, but rather a set of labels for each log stream.
Thanos is a set of components that can be composed into a highly available metric system with unlimited storage capacity, which can be added seamlessly on top of existing Prometheus deployments.
Container Storage Interface (CSI) is an API that lets container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes seamlessly communicate with stored data via a plug-in.
OpenEBS is a Kubernetes-based tool to create stateful applications using Container Attached Storage.
ElasticSearch is a search engine based on the Lucene library. It provides a distributed, multitenant-capable full-text search engine with an HTTP web interface and schema-free JSON documents. Elasticsearch is developed in Java.
Logstash is a tool for managing events and logs. When used generically, the term encompasses a larger system of log collection, processing, storage and searching activities.
Kibana is an open source data visualization plugin for Elasticsearch. It provides visualization capabilities on top of the content indexed on an Elasticsearch cluster. Users can create bar, line and scatter plots, or pie charts and maps on top of large volumes of data.
New Relic is a SaaS-based monitoring tool that fully supports the way DevOps teams work in the modern enterprise by streamlining your workflows with today's collaboration software and orchestration tools like Puppet, Chef, and Ansible.
Nagios is a free and open source computer-software application that monitors systems, networks and infrastructure. Nagios offers monitoring and alerting services for servers, switches, applications and services. It alerts users when things go wrong and alerts them a second time when the problem has been resolved.
SonarQube is an open-source platform developed by SonarSource for continuous inspection of code quality to perform automatic reviews with static analysis of code to detect bugs, code smells, and security vulnerabilities on 20+ programming languages.
Genie is a federated job orchestration engine developed by Netflix. Genie provides REST APIs to run a variety of big data jobs like Hadoop, Pig, Hive, Spark, Presto, Sqoop and more. It also provides APIs for managing the metadata of many distributed processing clusters and the commands and applications which run on them.
Inviso is a lightweight tool that provides the ability to search for Hadoop jobs, visualize the performance, and view cluster utilization.
Fenzo is a scheduler Java library for Apache Mesos frameworks that supports plugins for scheduling optimizations and facilitates cluster autoscaling.
Dynomite is a thin, distributed dynamo layer for different storage engines and protocols, which includes Redis and Memcached. Dynomite supports multi-datacenter replication and is designed for High Availability(HA).
Dyno is a tool that is used to scale a Java client application utilizing Dynomite.
Raigad is a process/tool that runs alongside Elasticsearch to automate backup/recovery, Deployments and Centralized Configuration management.
Priam is a process/tool that runs alongside Apache Cassandra to automate backup/recovery, Deployments and Centralized Configuration management.
Chaos Monkey is a resiliency tool used to randomly terminates virtual machine instances and containers that run inside of your production environment. Chaos Monkey should work with any backend that Spinnaker supports (AWS, Google Compute Engine, Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes, and Cloud Foundry).
Falcor is a JavaScript library for efficient data fetching. Falcor lets you represent all your remote data sources as a single domain model via a virtual JSON graph, whether in memory on the client or over the network on the server.
Restify is a framework, utilizing connect style middleware for building REST APIs.
Traefik is an open source Edge Router that makes publishing your services a fun and easy experience. It receives requests on behalf of your system and finds out which components are responsible for handling them. What sets Traefik apart, besides its many features, is that it automatically discovers the right configuration for your services.
Jira is a proprietary issue tracking product developed by Atlassian that allows bug tracking and agile project management.
Pivotal Tracker is the agile project management tool of choice for developers around the world for real-time collaboration around a shared, prioritized backlog.
Kubernetes (K8s) is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.
Building Highly-Availability(HA) Clusters with kubeadm. Source: Kubernetes.io, 2020
Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) is a managed, production-ready environment for running containerized applications.
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is serverless Kubernetes, with a integrated continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) experience, and enterprise-grade security and governance. Unite your development and operations teams on a single platform to rapidly build, deliver, and scale applications with confidence.
Amazon EKS is a tool that runs Kubernetes control plane instances across multiple Availability Zones to ensure high availability.
AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK) is a new tool that lets you directly manage AWS services from Kubernetes. ACK makes it simple to build scalable and highly-available Kubernetes applications that utilize AWS services.
Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE) is an Oracle-managed container orchestration service that can reduce the time and cost to build modern cloud native applications. Unlike most other vendors, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure provides Container Engine for Kubernetes as a free service that runs on higher-performance, lower-cost compute.
Anthos is a modern application management platform that provides a consistent development and operations experience for cloud and on-premises environments.
Red Hat Openshift is a fully managed Kubernetes platform that provides a foundation for on-premises, hybrid, and multicloud deployments.
OKD is a community distribution of Kubernetes optimized for continuous application development and multi-tenant deployment. OKD adds developer and operations-centric tools on top of Kubernetes to enable rapid application development, easy deployment and scaling, and long-term lifecycle maintenance for small and large teams.
Odo is a fast, iterative, and straightforward CLI tool for developers who write, build, and deploy applications on Kubernetes and OpenShift.
Kata Operator is an operator to perform lifecycle management (install/upgrade/uninstall) of Kata Runtime on Openshift as well as Kubernetes cluster.
Thanos is a set of components that can be composed into a highly available metric system with unlimited storage capacity, which can be added seamlessly on top of existing Prometheus deployments.
OpenShift Hive is an operator which runs as a service on top of Kubernetes/OpenShift. The Hive service can be used to provision and perform initial configuration of OpenShift 4 clusters.
Rook is a tool that turns distributed storage systems into self-managing, self-scaling, self-healing storage services. It automates the tasks of a storage administrator: deployment, bootstrapping, configuration, provisioning, scaling, upgrading, migration, disaster recovery, monitoring, and resource management.
VMware Tanzu is a centralized management platform for consistently operating and securing your Kubernetes infrastructure and modern applications across multiple teams and private/public clouds.
Kubespray is a tool that combines Kubernetes and Ansible to easily install Kubernetes clusters that can be deployed on AWS, GCE, Azure, OpenStack, vSphere, Packet (bare metal), Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (Experimental), or Baremetal.
KubeInit provides Ansible playbooks and roles for the deployment and configuration of multiple Kubernetes distributions.
Rancher is a complete software stack for teams adopting containers. It addresses the operational and security challenges of managing multiple Kubernetes clusters, while providing DevOps teams with integrated tools for running containerized workloads.
K3s is a highly available, certified Kubernetes distribution designed for production workloads in unattended, resource-constrained, remote locations or inside IoT appliances.
Helm is a Kubernetes Package Manager tool that makes it easier to install and manage Kubernetes applications.
Knative is a Kubernetes-based platform to build, deploy, and manage modern serverless workloads. Knative takes care of the operational overhead details of networking, autoscaling (even to zero), and revision tracking.
KubeFlow is a tool dedicated to making deployments of machine learning (ML) workflows on Kubernetes simple, portable and scalable.
Etcd is a distributed key-value store that provides a reliable way to store data that needs to be accessed by a distributed system or cluster of machines. Etcd is used as the backend for service discovery and stores cluster state and configuration for Kubernetes.
OpenEBS is a Kubernetes-based tool to create stateful applications using Container Attached Storage.
Container Storage Interface (CSI) is an API that lets container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes seamlessly communicate with stored data via a plug-in.
MicroK8s is a tool that delivers the full Kubernetes experience. In a Fully containerized deployment with compressed over-the-air updates for ultra-reliable operations. It is supported on Linux, Windows, and MacOS.
Charmed Kubernetes is a well integrated, turn-key, conformant Kubernetes platform, optimized for your multi-cloud environments developed by Canonical.
Grafana Kubernetes App is a toll that allows you to monitor your Kubernetes cluster's performance. It includes 4 dashboards, Cluster, Node, Pod/Container and Deployment. It allows for the automatic deployment of the required Prometheus exporters and a default scrape config to use with your in cluster Prometheus deployment.
KubeEdge is an open source system for extending native containerized application orchestration capabilities to hosts at Edge.It is built upon kubernetes and provides fundamental infrastructure support for network, app. deployment and metadata synchronization between cloud and edge.
Lens is the most powerful IDE for people who need to deal with Kubernetes clusters on a daily basis. It has support for MacOS, Windows and Linux operating systems.
kind is a tool for running local Kubernetes clusters using Docker container “nodes”. It was primarily designed for testing Kubernetes itself, but may be used for local development or CI.
Flux CD is a tool that automatically ensures that the state of your Kubernetes cluster matches the configuration you've supplied in Git. It uses an operator in the cluster to trigger deployments inside Kubernetes, which means that you don't need a separate continuous delivery tool.
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Container Architecture. Source: Containerd.io
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Docker is an open platform for developing, shipping, and running applications. Docker enables you to separate your applications from your infrastructure so you can deliver software quickly working in collaboration with cloud, Linux, and Windows vendors, including Microsoft.
Docker Enterprise is a subscription including software, supported and certified container platform for CentOS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Ubuntu, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES), Oracle Linux, and Windows Server 2016, as well as for cloud providers AWS and Azure. In November 2019 Docker's Enterprise Platform business was acquired by Mirantis.
Docker Desktop is an application for MacOS and Windows machines for the building and sharing of containerized applications and microservices. Docker Desktop delivers the speed, choice and security you need for designing and delivering containerized applications on your desktop. Docker Desktop includes Docker App, developer tools, Kubernetes and version synchronization to production Docker Engines.
Docker Hub is the world's largest library and community for container images Browse over 100,000 container images from software vendors, open-source projects, and the community.
Docker Compose is a tool that was developed to help define and share multi-container applications. With Docker Compose, you can create a YAML file to define the services and with a single command, can spin everything up or tear it all down.
Docker Swarm is a Docker-native clustering system swarm is a simple tool which controls a cluster of Docker hosts and exposes it as a single "virtual" host.
Dockerfile is a text document that contains all the commands a user could call on the command line to assemble an image. Using docker build users can create an automated build that executes several command-line instructions in succession.
Docker Containers is a standard unit of software that packages up code and all its dependencies so the application runs quickly and reliably from one computing environment to another.
Docker Engine is a container runtime that runs on various Linux (CentOS, Debian, Fedora, Oracle Linux, RHEL, SUSE, and Ubuntu) and Windows Server operating systems. Docker creates simple tooling and a universal packaging approach that bundles up all application dependencies inside a container which is then run on Docker Engine.
Docker Images is a lightweight, standalone, executable package of software that includes everything needed to run an application: code, runtime, system tools, system libraries and settings. Images have intermediate layers that increase reusability, decrease disk usage, and speed up docker build by allowing each step to be cached. These intermediate layers are not shown by default. The SIZE is the cumulative space taken up by the image and all its parent images.
Docker Network is a that displays detailed information on one or more networks.
Docker Daemon is a service started by a system utility, not manually by a user. This makes it easier to automatically start Docker when the machine reboots. The command to start Docker depends on your operating system. Currently, it only runs on Linux because it depends on a number of Linux kernel features, but there are a few ways to run Docker on MacOS and Windows as well by configuring the operating system utilities.
Docker Storage is a driver controls how images and containers are stored and managed on your Docker host.
Kitematic is a simple application for managing Docker containers on Mac, Linux and Windows letting you control your app containers from a graphical user interface (GUI).
Open Container Initiative is an open governance structure for the express purpose of creating open industry standards around container formats and runtimes.
Buildah is a command line tool to build Open Container Initiative (OCI) images. It can be used with Docker, Podman, Kubernetes.
Podman is a daemonless, open source, Linux native tool designed to make it easy to find, run, build, share and deploy applications using Open Containers Initiative (OCI) Containers and Container Images. Podman provides a command line interface (CLI) familiar to anyone who has used the Docker Container Engine.
Containerd is a daemon that manages the complete container lifecycle of its host system, from image transfer and storage to container execution and supervision to low-level storage to network attachments and beyond. It is available for Linux and Windows.
Microsoft Azure Architecture. Source: Azure
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Azure command-line interface (Azure CLI) is a command line that provides a set of commands used to create and manage Azure resources.
Visual Studio Code is a lightweight but powerful source code editor which runs on your desktop and is available for Windows, macOS and Linux. It comes with built-in support for JavaScript, TypeScript and Node.js and has a rich ecosystem of extensions for other languages (such as C++, C#, Java, Python, PHP, Go) and runtimes (such as .NET and Unity).
Azure Functions is a solution for easily running small pieces of code, or "functions," in the cloud. You can write just the code you need for the problem at hand, without worrying about a whole application or the infrastructure to run it.
Azure DevOps is a set of services for teams to share code, track work, and ship software; CLIs Build, deploy, diagnose, and manage multi-platform, scalable apps and services; Azure Pipelines Continuously build, test, and deploy to any platform and cloud; Azure Lab Services Set up labs for classrooms, trials, development and testing, and other scenarios.
Azure Data Studio is a cross-platform database tool for data professionals using on-premises and cloud data platforms on Windows, macOS, and Linux. It offers a modern editor experience with IntelliSense, code snippets, source control integration, and an integrated terminal. It's engineered with the data platform user in mind, with built-in charting of query result sets and customizable dashboards.
Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) is Microsoft's cloud-based identity and access management service, which helps your employees sign in and access resources in: External resources, such as Microsoft 365, the Azure portal, and thousands of other SaaS applications.
Azure Monitor is a client tool that helps you maximize the availability and performance of your applications and services. It delivers a comprehensive solution for collecting, analyzing, and acting on telemetry from your cloud and on-premises environments.
Azure Cognitive Cognitive Services is a set of cloud-based services with REST APIs and client library SDKs available to help you build cognitive intelligence into your applications. You can add cognitive features to your applications without having artificial intelligence (AI) or data science skills. All it takes is an API call to embed the ability to see, hear, speak, search, understand, and accelerate decision-making into your apps.
Azure Data Lake Storage is a storage repository that holds a large amount of data in its native, raw format. Data lake stores are optimized for scaling to terabytes and petabytes of data. The data typically comes from multiple heterogeneous sources, and may be structured, semi-structured, or unstructured.
Azure Service Fabric is a distributed systems platform that makes it easy to package, deploy, and manage scalable and reliable microservices and containers. Service Fabric also addresses the significant challenges in developing and managing cloud native applications. It powers core Azure infrastructure as well as other Microsoft services such as Skype for Business, Intune, Azure Event Hubs, Azure Data Factory, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure SQL Database, Dynamics 365, and Cortana.
Microsoft Azure Storage Emulator is a tool that emulates the Azure Blob, Queue, and Table services for local development purposes. You can test your application against the storage services locally without creating an Azure subscription or incurring any costs.
Azure Cosmos DB Emulator is a tool that provides a local environment that emulates the Azure Cosmos DB service for development purposes. Using the Azure Cosmos DB Emulator, you can develop and test your application locally, without creating an Azure subscription or incurring any costs.
Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer is a standalone app that makes it easy to work with Azure Storage data on Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Azure BatchExplorer is a client tool to help create, debug and monitor Azure Batch Applications.
Azure Key Vault Explorer is a client tool to help be productive when working with secrets.
Azurite is an open source Azure Storage API compatible server (emulator). Based on Node.js, Azurite provides cross platform experiences for customers wanting to try Azure Storage easily in a local environment. Azurite simulates most of the commands supported by Azure Storage with minimal dependencies.
Azure Cloud Shell is an interactive, authenticated, browser-accessible shell for managing Azure resources. It provides the flexibility of choosing the shell experience that best suits the way you work, either Bash or PowerShell.
Azure Lab Services is an easy to set up and provide on-demand access to preconfigured virtual machines (VMs) to support your scenarios. Teach a class, train professionals, run a hackathon or a hands-on lab, and more.
Azure Pipelines is a cloud-hosted pipelines for Linux, macOS, and Windows. Where you can build web, desktop and mobile applications. Deploy to any cloud or on‑premises.
Azure Bots Service is a service that develops intelligent, enterprise-grade bots that help you enrich the customer experience while maintaining control of your data. Build any type of bot—from a Q&A bot to your own branded virtual assistant—to quickly connect your users to the answers they need.
Azure PlayFab is a service that enables developers to use the intelligent cloud to build and operate games, analyze gaming data and improve overall gaming experiences. Along with the Microsoft Game Stack that includes platforms, tools, and services like Visual Studio, DirectX, Havok, and Xbox.
Azure Databricks is a tool that makes it fast, easy, and collaborative Apache Spark-based analytics platform. Azure Databricks, set up your Apache Spark™ environment in minutes, autoscale, and collaborate on shared projects in an interactive workspace. Azure Databricks supports Python, Scala, R, Java, and SQL, as well as data science frameworks and libraries including TensorFlow, PyTorch, and scikit-learn.
Azure Machine Learning is an enterprise-grade machine learning service to build and deploy models faster. It empowers data scientists and developers with a wide range of productive experiences to build, train, and deploy machine learning models and foster team collaboration. Accelerate time to market with industry-leading MLOps—DevOps for machine learning. Innovate on a secure, trusted platform, designed for responsible machine learning.
Azure Open Datasets is a tool that curates open data made easily accessible on Azure.
Azure Percept is a comprehensive, easy-to-use platform with added security for creating edge AI solutions.
Azure Data Share is a simple and safe service for sharing big data. It provides full visibility into your data sharing relationships with a user-friendly interface. Share data in just a few clicks, or build your own application using the REST API.
Azure Data Factory is a fully managed, serverless data integration solution for ingesting, preparing, and transforming all your data at scale.
Azure Synapse Analytics is a limitless analytics service that brings together data integration, enterprise data warehousing, and big data analytics. It gives you the freedom to query data on your terms, using either serverless or dedicated resources at scale.
Azure HDInsight is an enterprise-ready, managed cluster service for open-source analytics.It let's you run popular open-source frameworks including Apache Hadoop, Spark, Hive, Kafka, and more.
Azure Blockchain Service is a service that simplifies the formation, management, and governance of consortium blockchain networks so you can focus on business logic and app development.
Azure Logic Apps is a leading integration platform as a service (iPaaS) enables key enterprise scenarios for developers. Built on a containerized runtime that increases scale and portability while automating business-critical workflows anywhere.
Azure Quantum is an innovative quantum computing and optimization solutions converge in a single marketplace quantum service.
Azure VMware Solution is a service that seamlessly moves VMware-based workloads from your datacenter to Azure and integrate your VMware environment with Azure. Keep managing your existing environments with the same VMware tools you already know while you modernize your applications with Azure native services.
Azure Spring Cloud is a fully managed Spring Cloud service, jointly built and operated with VMware.
Azure CycleCloud is a serviece that creates, manages, operates, and optimizes HPC and big compute clusters of any scale.
Azure API Apps is a service that quickly builds and consumes APIs in the cloud using the language of your choice.
Azure Web Apps is an easy way to create and deploy mission-critical web applications that scale with your business.
Windows Virtual Desktop is a service that enables a secure, remote desktop experience from anywhere.
VMware Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure is a desktop virtualization service available in Azure Marketplace. Simplify your delivery of on-premises and cloud virtual desktops and applications by connecting your instance of Azure to VMware.
Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops for Azure is a desktop and app virtualization service available through Azure Marketplace or agreements with Citrix. Use familiar tools to manage on-premises Citrix deployments alongside Windows Virtual Desktop on Azure, supporting cloud modernization while maximizing your existing investment.
Azure Container Registry is a registry of Docker and Open Container Initiative (OCI) images, with support for all OCI artifacts.
Azure Web App for Containers is an easily deploy and run containerized applications on Windows and Linux.
Azure SQL Edge is a service that makes a small-footprint, edge-optimized SQL database engine with built-in AI. This productivity tool for edge computing combines new capabilities such as data streaming and time series with in-database machine learning and graph features. Develop your application once and deploy anywhere across the edge, your datacenter, and Azure.
Azure Arc is a service that offers simplified management, faster app development, and consistent Azure services. Standardize visibility, operations, and compliance across a wide range of resources and locations by extending the Azure control plane. Build cloud-native apps anywhere, at scale.
Azure Artifacts is a services that provides fully integrated package management to your continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines with a single click. Create and share Maven, npm, NuGet, and Python package feeds from public and private sources with teams of any size.
Azure Boards is a service that helps you plan, track, and discuss work across your teams. It let's you track work with Kanban boards, backlogs, team dashboards, and custom reporting.
Azure ExpressRoute is a tool that helps you experience a faster, private connection to Azure.
Azure Sentinel is your birds-eye view across the enterprise. It uses the cloud and large-scale intelligence from decades of Microsoft security experience to work. Making your threat detection and response smarter and faster with artificial intelligence (AI).
Azure Stack is a service that builds and runs hybrid apps across datacenters, edge locations, remote offices, and the cloud.
Azure Stack HCI is a new hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) operating system delivered as an Azure service that provides the latest security, performance, and feature updates. Deploy and run Windows and Linux virtual machines (VMs) in your datacenter or at the edge using your existing tools, processes, and skill sets.
Azure Sphere is a comprehensive IoT security solution including hardware (crossover microcontroller), OS, and cloud components for IoT device security to actively protect your devices, your business, and your customers.
Azure IoT Hub is a service that provides a cloud-hosted solution back end to connect virtually any device. Extend your solution from the cloud to the edge with per-device authentication, built-in device management, and scaled provisioning.
Azure IoT Edge is a fully managed service built on Azure IoT Hub. Deploy your cloud workloads—artificial intelligence, Azure and third-party services, or your own business logic to run on Internet of Things (IoT) edge devices via standard containers.
Azure Lighthouse is a secure managed services and access control for partners and customers.
Azure Backup is a cost-effective, secure, one-click backup solution that’s scalable based on your backup storage needs. The centralized management interface makes it easy to define backup policies and protect a wide range of enterprise workloads, including Azure Virtual Machines, SQL and SAP databases, and Azure file shares.
Azure Resource Manager is a tool that enables you to repeatedly deploy your app and have confidence your resources are deployed in a consistent state. You define the infrastructure and dependencies for your app in a single declarative template. This template is flexible enough to use for all of your environments such as test, staging or production.
Azure Automanage is a tool that implifies IT management with optimized, automated operations across the entire lifecycle of dev/test and production virtual machines (VMs).
Azure Network Watcher is a tool that monitors, diagnoses, and gains insights to your network performance and health.
Azure Resource Mover is a that that Simplifies how you move multiple resources between Global Azure regions.
Azure Bastion is a fully managed PaaS service that provides secure and seamless RDP and SSH access to your virtual machines directly through the Azure Portal. Azure Bastion is provisioned directly in your Virtual Network (VNet) and supports all VMs in your Virtual Network (VNet) using SSL without any exposure through public IP addresses.
Azure Load balancing is a service that instantly scale your applications with Azure load balancing services for high availability and high performance. Get started with a quick needs assessment and load balancing recommendation—using the service selection tool.
Azure Orbital is a Ground Station As-a-Service that provides communication and control of your satellite. Orbital enables easy and integrated data processing and scale for your operations directly from Azure. Leverage familiar Azure services to process and store your data at scale.
Azure Route Server is a tool that enables network appliances to exchange route information with Azure virtual networks dynamically. Configure your network appliances and Azure ExpressRoute and VPN gateways to automatically take the latest route information from Azure Route Server instead of manually talking to each network.
Azure VPN Gateway is a service that connects your on-premises networks to Azure through Site-to-Site VPNs in a similar way that you set up and connect to a remote branch office. The connectivity is secure and uses the industry-standard protocols Internet Protocol Security (IPsec) and Internet Key Exchange (IKE).
Microsoft Azure Attestation is a unified solution for remotely verifying the trustworthiness of a platform and integrity of the binaries running inside it. Azure Attestation receives evidence from the platform, validates it with security standards, evaluates it against configurable policies, and produces an attestation token for claims-based applications. The service supports attestation of trusted platform modules (TPMs) and trusted execution environments (TEEs) like Intel® Software Guard Extensions (SGX) and virtualization-based security (VBS) enclaves.
Azure Data Box is a device that easily moves data to Azure when busy networks aren’t an option. Move large amounts of data to Azure when you're limited by time, network availability, or costs, using common copy tools such as Robocopy. All data is AES-encrypted, and the devices are wiped clean after upload, in accordance with NIST Special Publication 800-88 revision 1 standards.
Azure Blob Storage is a massively scalable and secure object storage for cloud-native workloads, archives, data lakes, high-performance computing, and machine learning.
PowerShell/PowerShell Core is a cross-platform (Windows, Linux, and macOS) automation and configuration tool/framework that works well with your existing tools and is optimized for dealing with structured data (e.g. JSON, CSV, XML, etc.), REST APIs, and object models. It includes a command-line shell, an associated scripting language and a framework for processing cmdlets.
Hyper-V creates virtual machines on Windows 10. Hyper-V can be enabled in many ways including using the Windows 10 control panel, PowerShell or using the Deployment Imaging Servicing and Management tool (DISM).
GitHub Codespaces is an integrated development environment(IDE) on GitHub. That allows developers to develop entirely in the cloud using Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code.
GitHub Actions will automate, customize, and execute your software development workflows right in your repository with GitHub Actions. You can discover, create, and share actions to perform any job you'd like, including CI/CD, and combine actions in a completely customized workflow.GitHub Actions for Azure you can create workflows that you can set up in your repository to build, test, package, release and deploy to Azure.
Amazon Web Services Architecture. Source: AWS
Amazon Web Services is a reliable, scalable, and inexpensive on-demand cloud computing platforms, services and APIs to individuals, companies, and governments, on a metered pay-as-you-go basis.
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AWS Marketplace is a digital catalog with thousands of software listings from independent software vendors that make it easy to find, test, buy, and deploy software that runs on AWS.
AWS Cloud9 is a cloud-based integrated development environment (IDE) that lets you write, run, and debug your code with just a browser. It includes a code editor, debugger, and terminal. Cloud9 comes prepackaged with essential tools for popular programming languages, including JavaScript, Python, PHP, and more, so you don’t need to install files or configure your development machine to start new projects.
AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) is a unified tool to manage your AWS services through the command line interface.
AWS Amplify Command Line Interface (CLI) is a unified toolchain to create, integrate, and manage the AWS cloud services for your app.
AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) CLI is a command line tool for an open-source framework for building serverless applications. It provides shorthand syntax to express functions, APIs, databases, and event source mappings. With just a few lines of configuration, you can define the application you want and model it.
AWS Copilot command line interface (CLI) is a command line tool that simplifies building, releasing, and operating production-ready containerized applications on Amazon ECS from a local development environment. The AWS Copilot CLI aligns with developer workflows that support modern application best practices: from using infrastructure as code to creating a CI/CD pipeline provisioned on behalf of a user.
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) command line interface (CLI) is a command line tool that provides high-level commands to simplify creating, updating, and monitoring clusters and tasks from a local development environment. The Amazon ECS CLI supports Docker Compose files, a popular open-source specification for defining and running multi-container applications.
AWS ECS is a highly scalable, high-performance container orchestration service that supports Docker containers and allows you to easily run and scale containerized applications on AWS. Amazon ECS eliminates the need for you to install and operate your own container orchestration software, manage and scale a cluster of virtual machines, or schedule containers on those virtual machines.
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is an object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance. This means customers of all sizes and industries can use it to store and protect any amount of data for a range of use cases, such as data lakes, websites, mobile applications, backup and restore, archive, enterprise applications, IoT devices, and big data analytics.
AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) is an open-source software development framework to define cloud infrastructure in code and provision it through AWS CloudFormation. It offers a high-level object-oriented abstraction to define AWS resources imperatively using the power of modern programming languages.
AWS Lambda is an event-driven, serverless computing platform provided by Amazon as a part of the Amazon Web Services. It is a computing service that runs code in response to events and automatically manages the computing resources required by that code.
AWS Elastic Beanstalk is an easy-to-use service for deploying and scaling web applications and services developed with Java,.NET, PHP, Node.js, Python, Ruby, Go, and Docker on familiar servers such as Apache, Nginx, Passenger, and IIS.
AWS IoT Greengrass is an Internet of Things (IoT) open source edge runtime and cloud service that helps you build, deploy, and manage device software. It is used for IoT applications on millions of devices in homes, factories, vehicles, and businesses.
AWS CodeArtifact is a fully managed artifact repository service that makes it easy for organizations of any size to securely store, publish, and share software packages used in their software development process. CodeArtifact can be configured to automatically fetch software packages and dependencies from public artifact repositories so developers have access to the latest versions.
AWS CodeCommit is a fully-managed source control service that hosts secure Git-based repositories. It makes it easy for teams to collaborate on code in a secure and highly scalable ecosystem. CodeCommit eliminates the need to operate your own source control system or worry about scaling its infrastructure.
AWS CodePipeline is a fully managed continuous delivery service that helps you automate your release pipelines for fast and reliable application and infrastructure updates. CodePipeline automates the build, test, and deploy phases of your release process every time there is a code change, based on the release model you define. This enables you to rapidly and reliably deliver features and updates. You can easily integrate AWS CodePipeline with third-party services such as GitHub or with your own custom plugin.
AWS CodeStar is a unified user interface, enabling you to easily manage your software development activities in one place. With AWS CodeStar, you can set up your entire continuous delivery toolchain in minutes, allowing you to start releasing code faster.
AWS X-Ray is a tool that traces user requests as they travel through your entire application. It aggregates the data generated by the individual services and resources that make up your application, providing you an end-to-end view of how your application is performing. It helps developers analyze and debug production, distributed applications, such as those built using a microservices architecture.
AWS CodeDeploy is a fully managed deployment service that automates software deployments to a variety of compute services such as Amazon EC2, AWS Fargate, AWS Lambda, and your on-premises servers. AWS CodeDeploy makes it easier for you to rapidly release new features, helps you avoid downtime during application deployment, and handles the complexity of updating your applications.
AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages that are ready to deploy. With CodeBuild, you don't need to provision, manage, and scale your own build servers.
Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) is a fully-managed and jointly supported Red Hat OpenShift offering that combines the power of Red Hat OpenShift, the industry's most comprehensive enterprise Kubernetes platform, and the AWS public cloud.
Amazon API Gateway is a fully managed service that makes it easy for developers to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale.
AWS Storage Gateway is a hybrid cloud storage service that gives you on-premises access to virtually unlimited cloud storage.
AWS Transit Gateway is a tool that connects VPCs and on-premises networks through a central hub. This simplifies your network and puts an end to complex peering relationships. It acts as a cloud router - each new connection is only made once.
Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB) is a tool that makes it easy to deploy, scale, and manage your third-party virtual appliances. It gives you one gateway for distributing traffic across multiple virtual appliances, while scaling them up, or down, based on demand.
AWS Chalice is a Python Serverless Microframework for AWS and allows you to quickly create and deploy applications that use Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda.
AWS ParallelCluster is an AWS supported Open Source cluster management tool to deploy and manage HPC clusters in the AWS cloud.
AWS Copilot CLI is a tool for developers to build, release and operate production ready containerized applications on Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate.
AWS Fargate is a serverless compute engine for containers that works with both Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS).
Amazon Chime is a communications service that lets you meet, chat, and place business calls inside and outside your organization, all using a single application.
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) is a service that lets you launch AWS resources in a logically isolated virtual network that you define. You have complete control over your virtual networking environment, including selection of your own IP address range, creation of subnets, and configuration of route tables and network gateways.
AWS Lightsail is an easy-to-use virtual private server (VPS) that offers you everything needed to build an application or website, plus a cost-effective, monthly plan.
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) is a tool that makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. It provides cost-efficient and resizable capacity while automating time-consuming administration tasks such as hardware provisioning, database setup, patching and backups.
Amazon Aurora is a MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible relational database built for the cloud, that combines the performance and availability of traditional enterprise databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases.
Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to manage, and you pay only for the queries that you run.
Amazon CloudSearch is a managed service in the AWS Cloud that makes it simple and cost-effective to set up, manage, and scale a search solution for your website or application.
Amazon Kinesis is a tool that makes it easy to collect, process, and analyze real-time, streaming data so you can get timely insights and react quickly to new information. Amazon Kinesis offers key capabilities to cost-effectively process streaming data at any scale, along with the flexibility to choose the tools that best suit the requirements of your application. With Amazon Kinesis, you can ingest real-time data such as video, audio, application logs, website clickstreams, and IoT telemetry data for machine learning, analytics, and other applications.
Amazon EMR is the industry-leading cloud big data platform for processing vast amounts of data using open source tools such as Apache Spark, Apache Hive, Apache HBase, Apache Flink,Apache Hudi, and Presto.
AWS RedShift is a data warehouse tool that makes it as easy to gain new insights from all your data. With Redshift, you can easily query and combine exabytes of structured and semi-structured data across your data warehouse, operational database, and data lake using standard SQL. It lets you easily save the results of your queries back to your S3 data lake using open formats, like Apache Parquet, so that you can do additional analytics from other analytics services like Amazon EMR, Amazon Athena, and Amazon SageMaker.
AWS Data Pipeline is a web service that helps you reliably process and move data between different AWS compute and storage services, as well as on-premises data sources, at specified intervals. AWS Data Pipeline, let's you regularly access your data where it’s stored, transform and process it at scale, and efficiently transfer the results to AWS services such as Amazon S3, Amazon RDS, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon EMR.
AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service that makes it easy to discover, prepare, and combine data for analytics, machine learning, and application development.
AWS Lake Formation is a service that makes it easy to set up a secure data lake in days. A data lake is a centralized, curated, and secured repository that stores all your data, both in its original form and prepared for analysis.
Amazon Managed Blockchain is a fully managed service that makes it easy to join public networks or create and manage scalable private networks using the popular open-source frameworks Hyperledger Fabric and Ethereum.
AWS Wavelength is an AWS Infrastructure offering optimized for mobile edge computing applications. Wavelength Zones are AWS infrastructure deployments that embed AWS compute and storage services within communications service providers’ (CSP) datacenters at the edge of the 5G network, so application traffic from 5G devices can reach application servers running in Wavelength Zones without leaving the telecommunications network.
AWS Outposts is a fully managed service that offers the same AWS infrastructure, AWS services, APIs, and tools to virtually any datacenter, co-location space, or on-premises facility for a truly consistent hybrid experience. AWS Outposts is ideal for workloads that require low latency access to on-premises systems, local data processing, data residency, and migration of applications with local system interdependencies.
AWS Batch is atool that enables developers, scientists, and engineers to easily and efficiently run hundreds of thousands of batch computing jobs on AWS. AWS Batch dynamically provisions the optimal quantity and type of compute resources (e.g., CPU or memory optimized instances) based on the volume and specific resource requirements of the batch jobs submitted. AWS Batch plans, schedules, and executes your batch computing workloads across the full range of AWS compute services and features, such as AWS Fargate, Amazon EC2 and Spot Instances.
Amazon Forecast is a fully managed service that uses machine learning to deliver highly accurate forecasts.
AWS Snow Family is a highly-secure, portable devices to collect and process data at the edge, and migrate data into and out of AWS.
Amazon Neptune is a fast, reliable, fully managed graph database service that makes it easy to build and run applications that work with highly connected datasets. The core of Amazon Neptune is a purpose-built, high-performance graph database engine optimized for storing billions of relationships and querying the graph with milliseconds latency.
Amazon Timestream is a fast, scalable, and serverless time series database service for IoT and operational applications that makes it easy to store and analyze trillions of events per day up to 1,000 times faster and at as little as 1/10th the cost of relational databases.
AWS IoT is a service that is built on a secure and proven cloud infrastructure, and scales to billions of devices and trillions of messages. It easily integrates with other AWS services, so you can build complete solutions.
AWS IoT Core lets you connect IoT devices to the AWS cloud without the need to provision or manage servers. AWS IoT Core can support billions of devices and trillions of messages, and can process and route those messages to AWS endpoints and to other devices reliably and securely.
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Architecture. Source: Google Cloud
[Google Cloud Platform] is a public cloud platform that lets you build, deploy, and scale applications, websites, and services on the same infrastructure as Google.
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Cloud SDK is a clietn tool used to to manage Google Cloud resources and applications with command-line tools and libraries. The Cloud SDK contains gcloud, gsutil, and bq command-line tools, which you can use to access Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, BigQuery, and more.
Google Cloud Shell is a free admin machine with browser-based command-line access for managing your infrastructure and applications on Google Cloud Platform.
Cloud Code is a client tool that writes, debugs, and run cloud-native applications, locally or in the cloud—quickly and easily. Extensions to IDEs such as Visual Studio Code and IntelliJ are provided to let you rapidly iterate, debug, and deploy code to Kubernetes.
gcloud is a CLI (command line interface) manages authentication, local configuration, developer workflow, interactions with Google Cloud APIs.
gsutil is a Python application that lets you access Cloud Storage from the command line.
Compute Engine is a secure and customizable compute service that lets you create and run virtual machines on Google’s infrastructure.
App Engine is a client tool that lets you build and run applications on Google's infrastructure. It automatically scales to support sudden traffic spikes without provisioning, patching, or monitoring.
Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) is a managed, production-ready environment for deploying containerized applications.
Cloud Storage is a Object storage for companies of all sizes. Where store any amount of data and retrieve it as often as you would like to.
BigQuery is a serverless, highly scalable, and cost-effective multi-cloud data warehouse designed for business agility.
Cloud Bigtable is Google's fully managed NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.
Cloud SQL is a tool that makes it easy to set up, manage, and administer your Postgres databases on Google Cloud.
Cloud Datastore is a schemaless database, which allows you to worry less about making changes to your underlying data structure as your application evolves.
Cloud Pub/Sub is a messaging middleware for traditional service integration or a simple communication medium for modern microservices.
Cloud Dataflow is a tool that brings streaming events to Google Cloud's AI Platform and TensorFlow Extended (TFX) to enable predictive analytics, fraud detection, real-time personalization, and other advanced analytics.
Cloud Dataproc is a fully managed and highly scalable service for running Apache Spark, Apache Flink, Presto, and 30+ open source tools and frameworks.
Cloud Datalab is a tool that provides a productive, interactive, and integrated tool to explore, visualize, analyze and transform data, bringing together the power of Python, SQL, JavaScript, and the Google Cloud Platform with services such as BigQuery and Storage.
Cloud Vision API is a library that offers powerful pre-trained machine learning models through REST and RPC APIs.
Cloud Speech API is a library that enables developers to convert audio to text by applying powerful neural network models. The API recognizes over 80 languages and variants, to support your global user base.
Cloud Build is a continuous build, test, and deploy software across all languages and in multiple environments—including VMs, serverless, Kubernetes, and Firebase.
Anthos is a modern application management platform that provides a consistent development and operations experience for cloud and on-premises environments.
Jenkins on Google Cloud is a client tool that helps speed up, scale, and security from your Jenkins pipeline.
Tekton on Google Cloud is a client tool that standardizes CI/CD pipelines across languages, and tools on premises or in the cloud with a Kubernetes native open source framework.
Artifact Registry is a client tool to manage container images and language packages such as Maven and npm all in one place, fully integrated with Google Cloud’s tooling and runtimes.
Cloud Deployment Manager is a client that creates and manages cloud resources with simple templates. Specify all the resources needed for applications in a declarative format using yaml.
Red Hat OpenShift on Google Cloud is a fully-managed and jointly supported Red Hat OpenShift offering that enables you to deploy stateful and stateless apps with nearly any language, framework, database, or service. It gives you a hosted environment entirely on Google Cloud. A hybrid environment where you maintain part of your workload on-premises or in a private hosting environment and migrate the rest to Google Cloud.
VMware Horizon Cloud with Hosted Infrastructure Networking Overview. Source: VMware
VMware Multi-Cloud Optimization Strategy. Source: VMware
VMware is a cloud computing and virtualization technology company. Dell owns a 81% stake in VMware, which it picked up in its 2016 acquisition of EMC(data storage hardware maker) for $67 billion.
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VMware PowerCLI is a command-line and scripting tool built on Windows PowerShell, and provides more than 800 cmdlets for managing and automating vSphere, VMware Cloud Director, vRealize Operations Manager, vSAN, NSX-T Data Center, VMware Cloud Services, VMware Cloud on AWS, VMware HCX, VMware Site Recovery Manager, and VMware Horizon environments.
Fusion for MacOS is an application for running multiple operating systems on Mac.
Workstation Player is a simple tool for running a second OS on your Windows or Linux PC, free for personal use.
Workstation Pro is an application for running multiple operating systems on Windows and Linux.
Tanzu Mission Control is a single point of control to provision and apply policies to all of your Kubernetes across clouds.
Tanzu Build Service is a automated container creation, management, and governance at enterprise scale.
Tanzu Kubernetes Grid is a ubiquitous Kubernetes runtime embedded in vSphere and operable across public clouds and edge.
Tanzu Application Catalog is a curated and customized catalog of apps and components available in your private repository.
Tanzu GemFire is a distributed data management platform especially useful for high-volume, latency-sensitive, mission-critical, transactional systems.
Tanzu RabbitMQ is a protocol-based, highly scalable, and easy-to-deploy queuing system that makes handling message traffic virtually effortless.
Tanzu Application Service is an application runtime optimized for Spring and Spring Boot with turnkey microservices, operations, and security.
Tanzu Observability by Wavefront is an enterprise observability that delivers metrics and insights from infrastructure to apps.
Tanzu Service Mesh is an enterprise-class service mesh technology to connect and protect your microservices on multi-cluster Kubernetes.
VMware Pivotal Labs is a cloud native experts accelerate software delivery and modernize your apps while reducing operating costs and risk.
Pivotal tc Server is a lightweight Java application server that extends Apache Tomcat for use in large-scale mission-critical environments.
Pivotal App Suite is a middleware platform used by developers and ops to build and run cloud-scale custom applications.
VMware Cloud Foundation is an integrated cloud infrastructure and management services for private and public cloud.
VMware Cloud on AWS is a consistent vSphere-based infrastructure delivered on AWS.
VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts is a fully-managed VMware Cloud experience in your data center.
Business-Critical Apps is a consistent infrastructure and operations for your critical workloads, including: Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, and SAP.
VMware Cloud Provider Platform is a portfolio of private and hybrid cloud services delivered by VMware partners.
VMware Cloud Director Availability is a cloud-based disaster recovery services that VMware Cloud Providers can offer their customers.
Cloud Partner Navigator is a unified partner platform for multi-cloud service delivery and simplified business and customer operations.
VMware Cloud on Dell EMC is a fully-managed VMware Cloud experience deployed on a Dell EMC VxRail appliance.
Cloud Verified Partners is a cloud providers delivering the full power of VMware Cloud infrastructure.
VMware Cloud Director is a leading cloud service delivery platform for secure, differentiated and elastic hybrid cloud services.
VMware Cloud Director service (CDS) is a SaaS implementation of VMware Cloud Director that enables multi-tenancy on VMware Cloud on AWS providing geo expansion and asset-light use cases for VMware Cloud Providers.
NSX Data Center is a network and security virtualization platform.
vRealize Suite & vCloud Suite is a cloud system management platform.
Dell EMC VxRail is a turnkey hyperconverged infrastructure appliance with full VMware integration.
vSAN is a flash-optimized, vSphere-native storage for private and public cloud.
vSphere is an efficient and secure compute virtualization.
vCenter Server is a centralized platform for controlling your vSphere environments.
vRealize Cloud Management is a hybrid cloud management solution that enables you to consistently deploy and operate apps, infrastructure, and platform services.
vRealize Cloud Universal is a SaaS management suite that combines automation, operations, and log analytics in a single license.
vRealize Suite & vCloud Suite is an essential cloud management suites that combine automation and operations with lifecycle management.
vRealize Operations is a unified management platform for planning and scaling SDDC and multi-cloud infrastructure.
vRealize Operations Cloud is a self-driving operations for hands-off and hassle-free hybrid cloud management.
vRealize True Visibility Suite is a suite of management packs to help you monitor heterogeneous environments within vRealize Operations.
vRealize AI Cloud is a platform for the self-driving data center that uses reinforcement learning to continuously optimize your infrastructure.
Integrated OpenStack is a distribution that runs enterprise-grade OpenStack on top of VMware infrastructure.
vRealize Automation is a software to accelerate the delivery of IT services with automation and pre-defined policies.
CloudHealth is a service to optimize and govern financial, operational, and security management in your multi-cloud environment.
vRealize Log Insight is an intelligent log management and analytics tool.
VMware HCX is an app mobility and infrastructure hybridity across any-to-any vSphere environment.
vRealize Network Insight Cloud is an app-centric security and network visibility delivered as-a-service.
VMware Site Recovery is an on-demand disaster recovery as-a-service (DRaaS).
SecureState is a real-time insights for proactive management of cloud security and compliance risks.
VMware Cloud Marketplace is a rich ecosystem of third-party solutions and services designed and tested to run on VMware-based clouds.
NSX Cloud is a hybrid cloud networking and security.
NSX Distributed IDS/IPS is an advanced threat detection engine purpose-built to detect lateral threat movement on east-west network traffic.
VMware SD-WAN by VeloCloud is a platform to access cloud services, private data centers, and SaaS-based applications.
Service-Defined Firewall is an internal firewall that protects both workloads and east-west traffic.
NSX Data Center is an L2-L7 network and security virtualization platform.
NSX Advanced Load Balancer is a multi-cloud load balancing, web application firewall, and application analytics.
Carbon Black Workload is an advanced security purpose-built for workloads that reduces the attack surface and protects critical assets.
NSX Intelligence is a distributed analytics engine that provides automated security policy recommendations & audit trail of security policies.
VMware Carbon Black EDR is an on-premises endpoint detection and response (EDR) for threat hunting and incident response.
Extended detection and response (XDR) is a cloud-native security incident detection, investigation, and response platform for continuous, connected, and automated security operations.
VMware Carbon Black Cloud is a cloud-native endpoint protection platform that helps prevent, detect, and respond to cyberattacks.
VMware Carbon Black App Control is an on-premises app control and critical infrastructure protection.
Workspace ONE](https://www.vmware.com/products/workspace-one.html) is an intelligence-driven digital workspace platform that delivers and manages any app on any device.
Workspace ONE Intelligence gives you insights, app analytics, and automation for your entire digital workspace.
Workspace ONE Assist is a digitally transform employee experience with remote support.
Workspace ONE Intelligent Hub is a securely stay connected and be productive from anywhere on any device.
Workspace ONE UEM Powered by AirWatch is a unified endpoint management (UEM) technology that powers Workspace ONE.
Horizon is a leading platform for managing virtual desktops (VDI), apps, and online services.
Horizon Cloud is a flexible cloud platform for hosting virtual desktops and apps.
NSX for Horizon is a Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) networking solution with policies that dynamically follow desktops.
vRealize Operations for Horizon is a monitoring and reporting tool to manage Horizon and XenDesktop/XenApp environments.
Horizon Apps is a unified workspace for published, SaaS, and mobile apps.
App Volumes is a real-time application delivery software with lifecycle management.
vSAN for Horizon is a VDI storage solution with a number of pre-configured appliances optimized for Horizon, including vSAN ReadyNodes and Dell EMC VxRail.
Dynamic Environment Manager is a software for managing consistent desktop experience across virtual, physical and cloud-based desktops.
vSphere is an efficient and secure compute virtualization platform for hybrid cloud.
vSphere Hypervisor is a free, bare-metal hypervisor that virtualizes servers.
vCenter Server is a centralized platform for controlling your vSphere environments.
vCenter Converter is a software that transforms Windows and Linux-based physical machines into virtual machines.
Virtual Volumes is an industry-wide framework that streamlines storage operations and offers freedom of choice.
Pulse IoT Center is an edge infrastructure and IoT device management.
VMware Cloud on Dell EMC is a fully-managed VMware Cloud experience deployed on a Dell EMC VxRail appliance.
Telco Cloud Infrastructure is a multi-tenant platform with compute, storage, networking, management, and operations capabilities.
Uhana by VMware is an AI-based RAN analytics for mobile network operators.
Telco Cloud Platform is a service to deploy network functions, anytime, anywhere in your 5G networks without disruption.
Telco Cloud Operations is an automated service assurance for physical and virtual network management.
VMware Integrated OpenStack Carrier Edition is a carrier-grade OpenStack solution with the fastest path to a fully operational environment.
Telco Cloud Automation is a service to orchestrate and automate the management of any network function and service cross any network and any cloud.
VMware Blockchain is a decentralized trust platform with support for leading execution frameworks.
VMware Learning Platform is a SaaS platform that delivers hands-on virtual IT labs to anyone on the planet at cloud scale.
Cisco MultiCloud Architecture. Source: Cisco
Cisco is a company that develops software-defined networking, cloud, and security solutions to help transform your business, empowering an inclusive future for all.
Cisco Training & Certifications
Cisco CCNP Routing and Switching
Cisco Online Courses on Coursera
Cisco CloudCenter Suite is a set of integrated modules that simplifies the lifecycle management of multicloud applications, workflows, and their infrastructure. Securely design, automate, and deploy across any infrastructure while optimizing cost and governance with comprehensive reporting, visibility, and policy-enforcement.
Cisco Container Platform (CCP) is a service that automates the repetitive things and simplifies the complex ones so everyone can just go back to enjoying the magic of containers.
Cisco AppDynamics is aservice that transforms your applications and business with AppDynamics real-time performance monitoring.
Cisco ACI Anywhere is a service that provides industry-leading SDN solution, facilitates application agility and data center automation.
Cisco UCS Director is a heterogeneous platform for private cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). It supports a variety of hypervisors along with Cisco and third-party servers, network, storage, converged and hyperconverged infrastructure across bare-metal and virtualized environments.
Cisco Intersight Workload Optimizer is a service that provides a hybrid cloud optimization service that simplifies operations and reduces cost.
Cisco HyperFlex is a servie that extends the simplicity of Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) from core to edge and multicloud.
Cisco HyperFlex SAP Modernization Platform is a service that provides the performance needed for SAP app workloads and the databases they use with simple management, reduced TCO, and cloud-like flexibility. With Cisco HyperFlex, you also get leading infrastructure to run SAP HANA databases, HANA apps, and SAP Data Hub with Cisco Container Platforming running on HyperFlex.
Cisco Hybrid Solution for Kubernetes on AWS is a service to deploy, connect, secure, and monitor your Kubernetes-based applications across on-premises and the AWS cloud.
Cisco Integrated System for Microsoft Azure Stack is a service that deploys Microsoft Azure Stack Hub on the system designed forfor rapid user scalability and remote system deployments in the cloud. It leverages Cisco's UCS proven operational advantages such as 40% faster infrastructure deployment and 38% reduction in ongoing management costs as compared to other Azure Stack Hub systems.
Cisco Hybrid Cloud Platform for Google Cloud is a service that integrations Cisco services with Google Cloud Anthos. This helps customers build and manage multicloud and hybrid applications across their on-premises data centers and public clouds and let them focus on innovation and agility without compromising security or increasing complexity.
ACI Anywhere: ACI Cloud is a service that automates Automate the interconnect of multiple on-premises and cloud data centers through unified management.
Cisco Cloud Services Router 1000v is a service that constructs a secure network connection, and seamlessly extend it to public and virtual private clouds. This series is infrastructure agnostic and programmable across the LAN and WAN and in the cloud.
SD-WAN vEdge (Viptela) is a service that connects any user to any application with integrated capabilities for multicloud, security, unified communications, and application optimization on a secure access service edge (SASE) enabled architecture.
Cisco SD-WAN Cloud OnRamp is a secure, cloud-scale WAN architecture that can scale to thousands of endpoints across branch offices, colocation centers, or the cloud and help you enforce policy consistently.
Cisco Cloudlock is a cloud-native cloud access security broker (CASB) that helps you move to the cloud safely. It protects your cloud users, data, and apps. Cloudlock's simple, open, and automated approach uses APIs to manage the risks in your cloud app ecosystem. With Cloudlock you can more easily combat data breaches while meeting compliance regulations.
Cisco Umbrella is a flexible, cloud-delivered security when and how you need it. It combines multiple security functions into one solution, so you can extend protection to devices, remote users, and distributed locations anywhere.
Cisco Secure Email is a comprehensive protection for on-premises and cloud-based email stops the most common and damaging cyber threats.
Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics (Stealthwatch Cloud) is a Unified threat detection across on-premises and cloud environments. It detects early indicators of compromise in the cloud or on-premises, including insider threat activity and malware, as well as policy violations, misconfigured cloud assets, and user misuse.
Cisco Duo is a modern access security designed to safeguard(Two-Factor Authentication) all users, devices, and applications.
Cisco Secure Firewall is a service that intelligently controls points everywhere, with unified policy and threat visibility.
Cisco Secure Workload (formerly Tetration) is a service that protects workloads across any cloud, application, and workload anywhere. Also, automate and implement a secure zero-trust model for micro-segmentation based on application behavior and telemetry.
Cisco Kinetic is a service that helps securely connect your IoT environments where devices and applications that are highly distributed. It includes two modules that work together to help you securely connect devices, and then extract, compute and move your IoT data.
Edge and Fog Processing Module (EFM) is a module to compute data in distributed nodes. Make critical decisions near the point of action, and make the most efficient use of network resources.
Data Control Module (DCM) is a module to move the right data from diverse connected devices to the right cloud-based applications, at the right time, according to policy set by the data owner.
Cisco Webex is a service that conducts meetings in real time with Cisco video and web conferencing products.
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