Top 10 DevOps Tools You MUST Use in 2025!

[@DevOpsToolkit]

What are the tools you recommend?

[@Jonteponte71]

I just started watching the video and 4 minutes in you give us Fabric. It looks really interesting and I'm going to dive into it asap. Why do I always start watching videos like this right before I'm supposed to go to bed? :)

[@Jonteponte71]

And now I have seen all of it. Amazing summary Viktor! I now have a lot of work to do reading up on everything i missed this year. Discovering your channel together with Thoughtworks Technology Radar has been a game changer for helping with not feeling overwhelmed in a sea of options within the DevOps space this year.

[@newtondev]

Brilliant video with great choices. Thanks Viktor 🎉

[@j0Nt4Mbi]

As always, very interesting content from you. More tools to explore, such a great experience and information. 🎉

[@kazminv]

Good video, thank you!

[@sunflash9]

Thanks for the video 👍I find Backstage too convoluted and opinionated for developer portal, so I keep eye on "kusion stack" and cyclops, still try to find more simple options. Thanks to you now I heavily use KCL and love it. And agree NATS is really good tool that doesn't being use enough. Looking into Dapr earlier, despite it's 1.0+, and I'm still not convinced it's approach and general assumption that's it will be flexible and adaptable that can/will cover every use case, and many of it's "components" still in alpha/beta status, feel unpolished and bit unstable, it try to be "the "kubernetes" for app microservice with standard api as abstraction", so far feel very half-baked and opinionated.

[@javiersepulveda91]

Hi Viktor, is there any difference between crossplane, kubevela and kro? Maybe they have different use cases?

[@DevOpsToolkit]

KubeVela, kro, and Crossplane Compositions (excluding the rest of Crossplane) have similar objectives to create APIs and controllers that compose resources based on instances those APIs. Crossplane has much more than that though. I publish a video about kro a few weeks ago and many videos about Crossplane. I also have one about KubeVela but it's very old. The current plan is to publish a new up-to-date video about KubeVela (it changed a lot) in February and a comparison between those three after that.

[@javiersepulveda91]

​@@DevOpsToolkit Thnaks for your answer, Recently I see your Kro video and is more clear. Waiting for cooming soon videos.

[@12nauj21]

What an amazing video! I would have loved to see it by Halloween, to scare kids with the tools landscape :P

[@mrcaique1025]

Great job!

[@user-hd3hb5uf3m]

Very good explained, could you do a roadmap for junior DevOps including new tool of 2025

[@DevOpsToolkit]

I'll do my best to do something like that.

[@felipe88alves]

Any reason why you didn't consider CUE for State Management Format?

[@DevOpsToolkit]

I did mention it in the video. I did consider it and I used it in the past. It was my favourite language/format until I discovered KCL which is my current favourite. It's very similar to CUE.

[@stef9019]

32:23 - A small warning that CDK8S has been unmaintained by AWS for over a year now - supposedly they are looking into ramping up support for it but do note that technically it's dead at the moment

[@DevOpsToolkit]

Thanks for the info. I decreased my usage of it a while ago and, since i adopted kcl, abandoned it completely so I haven't been following it. I just went to the repo abd you are right. The last tag was created in 2021, and all the commits are coming only from automated dependency updates.

[@stef9019]

@@DevOpsToolkit Yeah it's a shame, it definitely has potential if you use TypeScript. I checked out the Python / Go examples a while back and almost vomited with all the `cdk.String("string")` examples lol. In hindsight it's just better to fully and properly support one language instead of the hell they created for the non-TS options IMO.

[@DevOpsToolkit]

When I saw Go implementation I was horrified. It should have stayed TypeScript-only.

[@stef9019]

I was actually just looking into Google's distroless containers. Do you happen to know any major differences between those and what Chainguard offers?

[@DevOpsToolkit]

Chainguard is much more serious with it. The rebuild, retest, and rerelease images multiple times a day in an attempt to guarantee zero vulnerabilities while google is mostly fire and forget with their images.

[@stef9019]

@@DevOpsToolkit Clear, thanks!

[@glibmar]

Nice. Thanks. What about Kubeflow?

[@DevOpsToolkit]

Next year...

[@KILLERTX95]

Can someone help answer a question for me. For context, I have managed to define my entire proxmox instance in code. I can bring everything down and bring it back from the dead to its exact config with little more than an internet connection using GitHub and a variety of tools like terraform, ansible and nix. While I do use ansible for my switches/routers (they are ssh so it makes sense). I also use it to provision my servers to a basic level. That being stuff like users, kube config, ssh keys, devbox etc. My question is, this guy keeps saying ansible is dead, and prefers cross plane, but cross plane (I’ve never used it) seems to only work AFTER you have a kube cluster. Am I missing something, or do you still essentially need to use ansible/ssh for a basic config. I wouldn’t mind exploring cross plane, but I don’t know what problems it solves if I have to use ansible anyway (Note, to use cloudinit with the bpg proxmox provider, you need to use snippets, which need admin which is a security problem.. I also find cloudinit a little finicky so prefer ansible for this use case)

[@DevOpsToolkit]

If you need to manage "stuff" that does not expose API, Ansible is probably the best choice. Terraform and Puluni shine when managing resources that expose APIs. Crossplane, kro, and other similar tools leverage Kubernetes to manage resources no matter where they are. That brings drift detection, reconciliation, and other things we like in kubernetes. More importantly, those introduce the ability to create your own CRDs and controllers which is useful if you want to build service and expose them to the rest of the people in your company. From what I would gather based in your comments, Ansible is probably the best choice for you, especially if you do not deal with large scale.

[@KILLERTX95]

@@DevOpsToolkit thanks, really appreciate you taking the time to reply! That makes sense. I mostly just found it odd that you compare declarative and imperative solutions and wanted to make sure I wasn’t missing something. For what it’s worth, I work for a company that, for security reasons, can’t adopt the cloud. So, I did this all in my homelab as a prelude to rolling something similar out in a larger environment. I’ve learned a lot from your videos, but I could never align your statement of “ansible is dead” with the realities of getting a basic install of what ever OS to a usable level. This now makes more sense, thank you. In essence, it looks like I’ll need to look at it eventually. However, not until I’ve got atleast my basic implementation out first. Fun. 😅

[@DexBGN]

Great job! However, I see Port is minimum 18000$ annually?

[@DevOpsToolkit]

Yeah. That's why I said "...and if you can afford it." There is a free option for up to 15 users. Above that it depends on how much people in your company cost and whether the reduction in development and maintenance when, for example, we compare it with backstage, makes it a good deal or not. An engineer in US can easily cost 200k a year, half that in EU, etc. If Port saves you from having to have an extra person or makes others more productive that cost might not be that high.

[@pavelpikat8950]

Transcript link is broken

[@DevOpsToolkit]

Sorry for that. It should work now.

[@po6577]

I would definitely say oh my posh are much better than starship, I once try to migrate to starship, but are missing some function I want

[@tvbyikadamba2333]

Nice

[@elclaustrocl]

Fabric is the only AI tool that worked for me

[@Mandguy7]

Farcic is the only AI that worked for me 😂

[@mrcaique1025]

@@elclaustrocl very nice tool, i have checked their examples and it is very impresive

[@halllo54321]

Someone knows when the next earthly release comes ?

[@DevOpsToolkit]

Not sure... It's been half a year since the last release. I suspect that they are putting all their effort into Lunar.

[@halllo54321]

Yeah i see it but lunar is not Open source and another Tool from earthly right ?

[@DevOpsToolkit]

I haven't tried it myself. I just saw it on their site.

[@TobiasWolf85]

Ghostty.