DevOps, SRE & Platform Engineering

An agentless automation tool for configuring servers, deploying applications and orchestrating repeatable operations across many machines.

The long-standing open-source web server, widely used for PHP applications and shared hosting, with flexible modules and .htaccess configuration.

A GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes that keeps clusters in sync with the desired state defined in Git.

Capability

Reproducible builds triggered on every commit, producing versioned artifacts, installers or container images ready for testing and release.

Capability

Repeatable, scripted release pipelines that move code from commit to production with testing gates, rollbacks and zero-downtime strategies.

The standard Linux shell, used for automation scripts, deployment steps and server maintenance tasks.

Capability

Pipelines that automatically test, build and deploy every change, so releases become routine, repeatable and low-risk.

A cloud CI/CD service with fast, configurable pipelines and good support for parallel testing across many languages.

The standard for packaging applications into portable containers that run the same way in development, testing and production.

GitHub's built-in CI/CD service for automating builds, tests, releases and deployments directly from your repositories.

GitLab's integrated pipelines for building, testing and deploying code, suited to teams who want source control and delivery in one place.

An open-source platform for dashboards and visualisation of metrics, logs and traces from Prometheus, databases and cloud services.

A dynamic JVM language used for Gradle builds, Jenkins pipelines and scripting inside Java-based systems.

The package manager for Kubernetes, used to define, version and deploy applications as reusable charts across environments.

Capability

Describing servers, networks and cloud services in versioned code so environments are reproducible, auditable and quick to recreate.

A long-established open-source automation server for building, testing and deploying software, common in enterprise CI/CD pipelines.

An orchestration platform for running containerised applications at scale with automated deployment, scaling and self-healing.

Capability

Setting up, securing, patching and tuning Linux servers, from single VPS instances to fleets, so your applications run reliably.

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Packaging, deploying, monitoring and retraining machine learning models in production with versioning, pipelines and reliable infrastructure.

Capability

Metrics, logs, traces and alerting that show how your systems behave in production and surface problems before customers notice.

A high-performance web server, reverse proxy and load balancer used to serve sites, terminate TLS and route traffic to applications.

Microsoft's scripting shell for automating Windows servers, Azure resources and Microsoft 365 administration.

An open-source monitoring system and time-series database for collecting metrics and alerting on the health of services and infrastructure.

Capability

Site reliability practices such as SLOs, incident response, capacity planning and resilience testing that keep services available as they grow.

An infrastructure-as-code tool that defines cloud resources declaratively so environments are reproducible, reviewable and version-controlled.