DevOps & Cloud

Engines, runtimes and desktop apps for building and running OCI containers locally and in production.

Docker, Docker Compose, Podman

Tools that build and inspect container images, plus registries that store and distribute them.

BuildKit, Docker Hub, Harbor

Container orchestrators and Kubernetes distributions, from managed cloud services to lightweight edge clusters.

Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, Google Kubernetes Engine

Package managers, CLIs, dashboards and local-cluster tools for working with Kubernetes day to day.

Helm, Kustomize, K9s

Cluster add-ons for autoscaling, certificates, DNS, storage, backup, multi-tenancy and cluster lifecycle.

cert-manager, KEDA, Karpenter

Declare cloud infrastructure in code or config and manage it through plans, state and pull requests.

Terraform, OpenTofu, Pulumi

Configure servers, bootstrap VMs, build machine images and keep fleets in a desired state.

Ansible, cloud-init, Packer

Pipelines that build, test and deploy code on every commit, from hosted services to self-hosted engines.

GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins

Deploy from Git, promote between environments and roll out safely with canaries and feature flags.

Argo CD, Flux, Argo Rollouts

Collect, store, alert on and visualize metrics from infrastructure and applications.

Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog

Ship, store, search and analyze logs, plus agents and pipelines that route telemetry between systems.

Grafana Loki, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch

Instrument services and follow requests end to end with distributed tracing, APM and continuous profiling.

OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, Grafana Tempo

Catch exceptions and performance issues in production and get alerted when endpoints, cron jobs or sites go down.

Sentry, GlitchTip, Bugsink

On-call scheduling, alert routing, incident coordination and AI agents that help investigate production issues.

PagerDuty, incident.io, Rootly

Serve traffic, terminate TLS, reverse-proxy and load-balance HTTP and TCP at the edge or as Kubernetes ingress.

NGINX, Caddy, Traefik

CNI plugins, service meshes and gateways that connect, secure and observe traffic between services.

Cilium, Istio, Linkerd

Hyperscalers and developer-friendly clouds for compute, storage, networking and managed services.

AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud

Managed platforms that deploy web apps, APIs and containers from Git with minimal operations work.

Vercel, Netlify, Cloudflare Workers

Open-source Heroku- and Vercel-style platforms that deploy apps onto your own servers or VPS.

Coolify, Dokploy, Kamal

Run code without managing servers: functions-as-a-service platforms and the frameworks used to deploy them.

AWS Lambda, Cloudflare Workers, Google Cloud Run

Internal developer platforms, service catalogs and golden paths that give developers self-service infrastructure.

Backstage, Port, Crossplane

See, allocate and cut cloud and Kubernetes spend, from cost estimates in pull requests to automated rightsizing.

OpenCost, Kubecost, Infracost