8 Great Tools to Implement DevOps

June 30, 2026 · devops, tools

There’s no single “right” DevOps stack — the right tool depends on your existing cloud provider, team size, and release cadence. Here are the eight tools that cover most of what we build for clients.

1. AWS — the default cloud platform for most engagements: EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, API Gateway.
2. NGINX — reverse proxy and load balancing at the edge of production traffic.
3. Docker — consistent containerized builds across dev, staging, and production.
4. GitHub Actions — CI/CD wired directly into the GitHub workflow teams already use.
5. Azure DevOps — pipelines, boards, and repos for teams standardized on Microsoft.
6. GitLab CI — pipeline-as-code, especially strong for teams running self-hosted GitLab.
7. Terraform — infrastructure-as-code so environments are reproducible and version-controlled, not hand-built.
8. Jenkins — still the most extensible option when a pipeline needs custom logic no SaaS CI can express cleanly.

See our full DevOps Tools page for how each one fits into a delivery pipeline.