Top 10 DevOps Popular Tools | Popular DevOps Tools You Must Know In 2024 | Learn DevOps Tools in 2024

Here are the top 10 DevOps Tools to focus on to put your DevOps learning on a faster track and kick start your career quickly as a successful Cloud engineer or DevOps engineer in about 10 weeks from now.

1.    Terraform - # 1 Infrastructure automation tool

2.    Git - BitBucket/GitHub/Azure Repos - # 1 - SCM tool
3.    Jenkins - # 1 CICD tool
4.    Docker - #1 Container platform 
5.    Kubernetes - #1 container orchestration tool 

6.    GitHub Actions - #3 CICD tool

7.    Ansible- #1 Configuration Management tool

8.    Azure DevOps – Microsoft platform for migrating applications to Azure Cloud

9.    SonarQube – #1 Code quality tool 
10.  Nexus - #2 Binary repo manager 

Finally having some scripting knowledge is also good by learning Python, YAML, Ruby.
and also having some Cloud experience on AWS and Azure will be extremely helpful.

 

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Date	Time	Type	When?
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DevOps Coaching Highlights:

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How to integrate SonarQube with Azure DevOps YAML Pipeline | SonarQube Integration with Azure DevOps | Automate Code Scan using SonarQube In Azure YAML Pipelines

Please find steps below for integrating SonarQube to perform static code analysis using Azure DevOps YAML pipeline.

Pre-requisites:

• Azure DevOps Account
• Make sure SonarQube is up and running
• Make sure Java Project is setup, click here for Sample Java Code 
• Service connection to connect to GitHub from Azure DevOps using GiHub's PAT(token)
• Service connection to integrate with SonarQube from Azure DevOps
• Make sure you install SonarQube plug-in/Add-on in Azure DevOps using below URL:

How to add SonarQube plug-in in Azure DevOps?

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/acquisition?itemName=SonarSource.sonarqube

Once added SonarQube plug-in, click on proceed to Organization..

How to integrate SonarQube with Azure DevOps:

Create Token in SonarQube to authenticate with Azure DevOps

You need to login to SonarQube using your admin password. admin/admin123 and click on Admin on your top side.

Click on My Account, Security. 

Under Tokens, Give some value for token name and choose Global analysis token, click on generate Tokens. Copy the token value generated.

Create Service Connections in Azure DevOps 

Login to Azure DevOps. Select your project dashboard.

Click on Project settings --> Service connections

click on New service connection

Type SonarQube and Click Next

Enter SonarQube server url and enter Token created 

Give name for service connection and select Grant access permission to all pipelines.

Click on Save.

Create a YAML Pipeline in Azure DevOps

1. Login to Azure DevOps. Go to Azure Pipelines. Click on create a new pipeline, Select GitHub:

2. Select your GitHub repo and select the Maven as YAML pipeline template

3. Click on show assistant on right hand side, type SonarQube and select Prepare Analysis on SonarQube task and then select Service connection from the drop down and choose Integrate with Maven or Gradle option and then click on Add task

Sample Code for entire pipeline is here below

Azure DevOps Pipeline YAML Code:

# Maven

# Build your Java project and run tests with Apache Maven.

# Add steps that analyze code, save build artifacts, deploy, and more:

trigger:

- master

pool:

  vmImage: ubuntu-latest

steps:

- task: SonarQubePrepare@5

  inputs:

    SonarQube: 'My_SonarQube'

    scannerMode: 'Other'

- task: Maven@3

  inputs:

    mavenPomFile: 'pom.xml'

    mavenOptions: '-Xmx3072m'

    javaHomeOption: 'JDKVersion'

    jdkVersionOption: '1.17'

    jdkArchitectureOption: 'x64'

    publishJUnitResults: true

    testResultsFiles: '**/surefire-reports/TEST-*.xml'

    goals: 'clean install sonar:sonar'

- task: PublishTestResults@2

  inputs:

    testResultsFormat: 'JUnit'

    testResultsFiles: '**/surefire-reports/TEST-*.xml'

    failTaskOnFailedTests: true

Click on Save and Queue to kick start build.
Now login to SonarQube dashboard, click on Projects

Watch steps in YouTube channel:

How to install Terraform on Linux OS | Install Terraform on Ubuntu 24.0.4 | TerraForm Installation on Linux

 

Terraform is an open source infrastructure as code (IaC) tool developed by HashiCorp. It allows you to define, manage, and provision infrastructure resources in a cloud or on-premises environment using declarative configuration files. Terraform maintains the state of the infrastructure in a state file. 

Please find the steps for installing Terraform On Ubuntu 24.0.4 in AWS cloud.

Pre-requisites:

Ubuntu EC2 already up and running

Go to HashiCorp Website

https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/downloads

Copy steps from Linux-> Ubuntu/Debian

wget -O- https://apt.releases.hashicorp.com/gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/hashicorp-archive-keyring.gpg

echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/hashicorp-archive-keyring.gpg] https://apt.releases.hashicorp.com $(lsb_release -cs) main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/hashicorp.list

sudo apt update && sudo apt install terraform

Check Terraform version

terraform -version

this should show version of Terraform. As of May 15, 2024 version was

 
Terraform v1.8.3

Please watch the above steps as Demo in YouTube below: 

Setup New Ubuntu 24.0.4 EC2 Instance | How to create EC2 instance in AWS console | Launch Ubuntu 24.0.4 instance in AWS Cloud

How to create Ubuntu 24.0.4 EC2 instance in AWS console?

What is EC2 instance? 

It is virtual server provided by AWS. EC2 instances can be used to setup both Jenkins and Tomcat. Please follow the below steps to create an EC2 instance.

Pre-requisites:

• AWS account setup configured

Steps:

1: Login to AWS console by clicking this link -->  https://aws.amazon.com/console/

click on All services, Click on Compute -->  Click on EC2

2. Click on Launch instance

3. Enter Name as EC2 and enter 2 as number of instances (one for Jenkins and another for Tomcat)

4. Select Ubuntu 

5. choose Ubuntu server 24.0.4 as AMI

6. Enter t2.small as instance type

7. Click on Create new Key Pair

8. Choose the existing key pair if you have one already from the drop down, otherwise create new one, give some name as myEC2Key. Make sure you download the key in your local machine. Please do NOT give space or any character while naming the key.

9. Under Network settings, Click Edit

Add port range as 8080 and select AnyWhere as Source Type, that should enter 0.0.0.0/0 as Source

10. Enter 10 GB as storage 

And then make sure in Summary, values appear as below:

11. Click on Launch Instance.

Click on View instances

Now you should be able to view instances in AWS console. Now you can re-name as Jenkins-EC2 and Tomcat-EC2

Watch Steps in YouTube channel:

Connect to EC2 instance from local machine:
Please click the below link to understand the steps for connecting to EC2 instance from your local machine - windows or Apple laptop.

http://www.cidevops.com/2018/02/how-to-connect-to-ec2-instance-from.html