Top DevOps Tools You Should Know in 2025
Categories and Tools: 🧪 CI/CD Tools GitHub Actions – Native CI/CD in your GitHub repo Jenkins – Highly customizable open-source CI/CD server CircleCI – Cloud-native, fast, and scalable 📦 Containerization & Orchestration Docker – Package your apps into containers Kubernetes – Automate deployment, scaling, and management 👁️ Monitoring & Observability Prometheus – Open-source monitoring for metrics Grafana – Dashboards and alerting ELK Stack – Centralized logging with Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana 🔐 Security & DevSecOps Aqua Security – Container security Snyk – Scan for vulnerabilities in dependencies Trivy – Scan for vulnerabilities in dependencies ⚡ Honorable Mentions: Terraform (Infrastructure as Code) ArgoCD (GitOps) Ansible (Configuration Management) 🧠 Final Thoughts The right tools can drastically improve your DevOps pipeline. Start small, choose tools that fit your stack, and scale...