Non-enterprise specific tools or hybrid tools

[andriy-git]

I was recently thinking about learning about the automation tools that are out there. I see that "Ansible" is current enterprise necessary tool. There is also a tool like "expect" for automation, is it worth learning? In command line tools like awk, sed, grep, find, ect., are a must. What about a tool like "jq" for json files? What other tools are there that are worth learning?

[PinkRubberBoots]

Most tools you don't need to learn but they are good to know about.

This is just a snippet from my personal documentation (with most of my notes removed), i would always recommend you to start with bash.
ex to learn:

1. Get repository
2. Get dependencies
3. Read in settings and apply them
4. Build
5. Package
6. Deploy

data processing:

• jq (JSON)
• xq (XML)
• yq (YAML, JSON, INI and XML)
• mq (Markdown)
• mdq (Markdown)
• xsv (CSV)
• Miller (CSV, TSV, JSON, JSON Lines, YAML and DCF)
• Dasel (JSON, YAML, TOML, XML, and CSV)
• jc ("any" command-line output to JSON)

task/build/"ci/cd" runners:

• TaskFile
• JustFile
• MageFile
• EarthFile (deprecated but still in use)
• Dagger
• Invoke
• MakeFile (The classic, you probably do not need to be able to make them, but should be able to read them)
• haku

schedulers:

• need to know at least cron

Getters:

• wget (The classic)
• curl (Always default to this if it can be installed on the system)
• Httpie cli

Triggers:

• entr (run commands on changes in output)
• watch (run command on a loop, watch changes over time)
• at (execute later)

IAC:

• Ansible
• Terraform
• SaltStack
• Chef
• Puppet