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Ask HN: Dev/Ops/DevOps tools you use and more people should

by zaat on 9/15/24, 1:09 PM with 14 comments

I'm looking for useful, working but less known tools that I can introduce my clients too. Either commercial (hopefully, which I can partner with and sell) or free (that I can implement for my customers benefit).

I'm extra interested in tools that can be used on-prem, in disconnected environments, but don't limit yourself to those only.

Tell us about any tool or service that is useful for you, that we may not be familiar with and that we should. Thanks!

  • by mcsniff on 9/16/24, 4:25 AM

    Tailscale, and Headscale to fit your on-prem request.

    I still run my own WireGuard server at home for getting on my internal LAN, but Tailscale for side projects is great.

  • by linkdd on 9/16/24, 11:02 PM

    Hurl ( https://hurl.dev ) for testing HTTP APIs.

    And self-promotion a bit: https://github.com/link-society/flowg An easy to setup/use log processing facility:

      Because OpenObserve didn't have the features I wanted
  Because ELK is too heavy for my usecase
  Because Splunk is too expensive
  Because I wanted something KISS

  • by codegeek on 9/15/24, 5:15 PM

    Not sure about lesser known but my top tools are:

    - Caddy server (Auto SSL, Dead simple Reverse Proxy) [0]

    - mkcert(local SSL) [1]

    - AWS Global Accelerator [2] (Static IP, Route traffic based on location) [2]

    [0] https://caddyserver.com/

    [1] https://github.com/FiloSottile/mkcert

    [2] https://aws.amazon.com/global-accelerator/

  • by iurisilvio on 9/15/24, 7:54 PM

    Honeycomb. Amazing observability tool and reasonably cheaper/better than alternatives.

  • by noop_joe on 9/17/24, 4:12 PM

    Noop [0] is a cloud platform that runs entire application ecosystems (including edge routing) locally and deploys the same setups globally -- it's a departure from the plug and play paradigm of kubernetes, but it means a lot less integration work. Full disclosure, I work @Noop.

    0. https://noop.dev

  • by t_believ-er873 on 9/25/24, 6:45 PM

    GitProtect backup and DR for DevOps

  • by SteveNuts on 9/15/24, 1:21 PM

    I don’t think I could survive without Netbox

  • by bithavoc on 9/16/24, 12:30 PM

    Tailscale

    Tailscale Subnet routers

    Tailscale ACL

    Pulumi

  • by aborsy on 9/17/24, 6:36 PM

    Tailscale, Caddy.

  • by stephenr on 9/15/24, 8:38 PM

    Don't you usually find tools to solve a problem, rather than the other way round? It sounds like you're literally asking for solutions looking for a problem.