DevOps & Automation

Automating the software delivery lifecycle through Infrastructure as Code, continuous integration, and cloud-native observability patterns.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Tool	Status	Context
Terraform	ADOPT	De facto standard for declarative Infrastructure as Code.
OpenTofu	ASSESS	Open-source fork of Terraform ensuring long-term community-driven IaC.
Pulumi	ASSESS	Infrastructure as Code using general-purpose programming languages (Python, Go, etc.).
Ansible	HOLD	Legacy imperative configuration. Moving towards immutable infrastructure (Packer/Container images) and K8s manifests.

Tool	Status	Context
GitHub Actions	ADOPT	Integrated CI/CD pipelines. My default for automation due to proximity to code.
GitLab CI/CD	ADOPT	Industry-leading CI/CD with powerful pipeline primitives and built-in DevSecOps.
ArgoCD	TRIAL	Declarative GitOps for Kubernetes. Essential for managing GKE clusters at scale.
Jenkins	HOLD	Legacy CI standard. Avoid for new projects due to maintenance overhead and lack of native GitOps.

Tool	Status	Context
Docker	ADOPT	The ubiquitous standard for containerizing applications.
Kubernetes (GKE)	ADOPT	Production-grade container orchestration. My primary platform for complex workloads.

Tool	Status	Context
Apache Kafka	ADOPT	High-throughput distributed event streaming platform for real-time data pipelines.
RabbitMQ	ADOPT	Reliable and versatile message broker for complex routing and asynchronous tasks.

Tool	Status	Context
Prometheus	ADOPT	The standard for metrics collection in cloud-native environments.
Grafana	ADOPT	Universal visualization platform. Used for unifying logs, metrics, and traces in a single pane of glass.
OpenTelemetry	ASSESS	The emerging standard for unified observability data collection (traces/metrics/logs).
HashiCorp Vault	TRIAL	Enterprise-grade secrets management and encryption-as-a-service.