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Infrastructure tooling grouped by category. Entries are informational: we don't publish vendor claims we haven't verified.

Cloud

3 tools

LocalStack

Cloud

Local emulator for AWS services so teams can build and test cloud applications and IaC without touching a real account.

Free community edition; paid plansWebsite

Pulumi

Cloud

Infrastructure as code in general-purpose languages such as TypeScript, Python and Go, with state management and policy as code.

Open source engine; Pulumi Cloud free tier and paid plansWebsite

Steampipe

Cloud

Query cloud APIs with SQL across AWS, Azure, GCP and many SaaS tools. Useful for inventory, audits and compliance checks.

Open sourceWebsite

Security

6 tools

Falco

Security

Runtime threat detection for containers and Kubernetes. It watches syscalls and flags suspicious behaviour such as shells in containers.

Open source (CNCF graduated)Website

HashiCorp Vault

Security

Secrets management with dynamic, short-lived credentials, encryption as a service and fine-grained access policies.

Free CLI/server (BSL licence); HCP Vault and Enterprise paidWebsite

Sigstore

Security

Keyless signing and verification for software artefacts and containers, with a public transparency log for supply chain security.

Open source (OpenSSF)Website

Snyk

Security

Developer-first security scanning for open source dependencies, code, containers and IaC, integrated into IDEs and CI.

Free tier; paid Team and Enterprise plansWebsite

Trivy

Security

All-in-one scanner for vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets and SBOMs across container images, filesystems, Git repos and Kubernetes.

Open source (Aqua Security)Website

Wiz

Security

Agentless cloud security platform that maps risks across cloud accounts: misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, identities and exposed data.

Commercial (enterprise)Website

FinOps

3 tools

Infracost

FinOps

Shows the cost impact of Terraform changes in pull requests before they are applied, so cost becomes part of code review.

Open source CLI; paid cloud plansWebsite

OpenCost

FinOps

Real-time Kubernetes cost monitoring that allocates cluster spend to namespaces, workloads and labels using cloud billing data.

Open source (CNCF project)Website

Vantage

FinOps

Cloud cost visibility and optimization across AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes and SaaS providers, with reports, budgets and anomaly alerts.

Free tier; paid plansWebsite

Platform Engineering

4 tools

Backstage

Platform Engineering

Framework for building internal developer portals: a software catalog, templates for new services, TechDocs and a plugin ecosystem.

Open source (CNCF project)Website

Crossplane

Platform Engineering

Turns Kubernetes into a control plane for cloud infrastructure, letting platform teams publish their own APIs for databases, buckets and environments.

Open source (CNCF project)Website

Humanitec

Platform Engineering

Platform orchestration layer that automates infrastructure provisioning for developer requests while enforcing security, cost and compliance policies.

Commercial (enterprise)Website

Port

Platform Engineering

Internal developer portal that has grown into a platform for building, governing and running AI agents across the software delivery lifecycle.

Commercial; trial availableWebsite

AI Infrastructure

5 tools

KServe

AI Infrastructure

Kubernetes-native platform for deploying predictive and generative AI models, with autoscaling, canary rollouts and multi-framework support.

Open sourceWebsite

MLflow

AI Infrastructure

Tracks experiments, packages models and manages model versions and deployment across the ML lifecycle, now with GenAI tracing and evaluation.

Open source; managed options availableWebsite

Ray

AI Infrastructure

Distributed compute framework for scaling Python and AI workloads: training, tuning, batch inference and serving.

Open source; managed service via AnyscaleWebsite

vLLM

AI Infrastructure

High-throughput LLM inference and serving engine with PagedAttention, continuous batching and an OpenAI-compatible API.

Open sourceWebsite

Weights & Biases

AI Infrastructure

Experiment tracking, model registry and LLM evaluation tooling used by ML teams to compare runs and monitor model quality.

Free tier; paid Team and Enterprise plansWebsite

DevOps

9 tools

Datadog

DevOps

SaaS observability platform covering infrastructure metrics, APM, logs, synthetics and security monitoring in one place.

Free tier; usage-based paid plansWebsite

GitHub Actions

DevOps

CI/CD built into GitHub, with workflows defined in YAML, hosted and self-hosted runners and a large marketplace of reusable actions.

Free minutes for public repos and each plan; pay-as-you-go beyondWebsite

GitLab

DevOps

A single DevSecOps platform covering source control, CI/CD, security scanning, package registries and planning, available as SaaS or self-managed.

Free tier; Premium and Ultimate paid plansWebsite

Grafana

DevOps

Dashboards and visualization over Prometheus, Loki, Tempo and dozens of other data sources, plus alerting and on-call in Grafana Cloud.

Open source; Grafana Cloud free tier and paid plansWebsite

Jenkins

DevOps

The long-standing self-hosted automation server, with pipelines as code and a very large plugin ecosystem.

Open sourceWebsite

OpenTofu

DevOps

Community-governed, open source fork of Terraform that stays compatible with existing configurations and providers.

Open source (Linux Foundation)Website

PagerDuty

DevOps

Incident response and on-call management: routing alerts, escalation policies, schedules and post-incident reviews.

Free tier for small teams; paid plansWebsite

Prometheus

DevOps

Pull-based metrics system with a time-series database, PromQL and alerting. It is the default for Kubernetes monitoring.

Open source (CNCF graduated)Website

Terraform

DevOps

Infrastructure as code with a declarative language and thousands of providers, for provisioning cloud and SaaS resources through plan and apply.

Free CLI (BSL licence); HCP Terraform paid tiersWebsite

Kubernetes

5 tools

Argo CD

Kubernetes

GitOps continuous delivery for Kubernetes. It keeps clusters in sync with manifests in Git and shows drift, health and rollout status in one UI.

Open source (CNCF graduated)Website

Cilium

Kubernetes

eBPF-based networking, security and observability for Kubernetes, covering CNI, network policy, load balancing and service mesh features without sidecars.

Open source (CNCF graduated); enterprise support availableWebsite

Helm

Kubernetes

The standard package manager for Kubernetes. Charts bundle manifests with templated values so applications can be versioned, shared and upgraded as one unit.

Open source (CNCF graduated)Website

Karpenter

Kubernetes

Node autoscaler that launches right-sized compute directly for pending pods and consolidates underused nodes, cutting both scheduling latency and idle cost.

Open sourceWebsite

Lens

Kubernetes

Desktop IDE for Kubernetes that gives a visual view of clusters, workloads, logs and metrics, with multi-cluster context switching.

Free and paid plansWebsite

Leadership

2 tools

DX

Leadership

Engineering intelligence platform that combines developer surveys with system data to measure productivity and the impact of AI tools.

CommercialWebsite

LinearB

Leadership

Engineering metrics and workflow automation covering DORA metrics, PR cycle time and delivery forecasting.

Free tier; paid plansWebsite
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