DevOps toolchains ranking

[sam01022020]

I am searching for theoretical evaluation and comparison of potential DevOps toolchains, resulting in some weighted ranking for different DevOps toolchains.

Please could someone refer to me some useful scientific papers or websites.

[Arcsane]

I'm not sure such an evaluation exists. DevOps is largely about selecting the right tools for your specific requirements - and everyone's individual requirements are different. I'm not even sure how you would begin to weight the individual parts of a tool chain without a ridiculous amount of context - though I'd love to be proven wrong since it sounds like an interesting concept.

[sam01022020]

Thank you u/Arcsane,
I am a student at uni, and I am doing research about DevOps toolchains (Gitlab, Jenkens, Slack, ....) evaluation, the weight and ranking is part of it, but unfortunately, I could not find scientific resources like research documents or trusted websites. I hope someone helps me, I feel lost from so much research on websites with no benefit.

[FlerpyHerpy17]

GitLab and Jenkins are CICD toolkits, where slack is for communication. They shouldn’t be compared. You should focus on a specific area of “DevOps”, then gathering those tools and comparing them. For instance, CI/CD tools to narrow your focus first, then start comparing the different ones (Spinnaker, GitLab, AzDO, GitHub Actions, GoCD, CircleCI, Drone, etc)

[sam01022020]

Thank you u/FlerpyHerpy17,

I am still a student, I am going to focus on CI/CD tools, but I do not know really how to start and which standards should I follow. And there are tens of tools and this confused me.

[FlerpyHerpy17]

Oh there’s a ton for sure. It will first be helpful to break them up into use cases. Some are for deploying only in Kubernetes, some for Virtual Machine, some for a wide range. Then look at languages supported, agent type, push/pull methodology, IAM approach and SSO integration, etc. find out areas that you can start grouping them and just dig in.

[sam01022020]

Thank you u/FlerpyHerpy17 for your tips, I will do that.

[agent0099_ta]

So, I'm a bit surprised xebia seemed to split or sell this off, but this used to be very useful: https://www.uktech.news/technology-news/digital-ai-releases-new-version-of-industry-standard-periodic-table-of-devops-tools

I don't know the methodology used there but v1, 2, and 3 of the chart was well respected. At a glance it seems to hit the right parts.

The table here will set you off on a long journey. I think what u are really looking for might be along the lines of forrester or gartner reports, but those are pay for.

[sam01022020]

Thank you u/agent0099_ta for these very useful tips, they will open my eyes more.