Cloud computing system tools are utilities and software designed to manage, configure, and interact with cloud environments. These tools help automate the provisioning, orchestration, and management of cloud resources. Below are some common categories and examples of cloud computing system tools:
These tools handle the setup and configuration of cloud resources, including the deployment of operating systems, packages, and applications on cloud infrastructure.
- cloud-init: Automates the initialization of cloud instances by configuring networking, storage, users, and more.
- Terraform: An open-source tool used to build, change, and version infrastructure as code. Works with various cloud providers like AWS, GCP, and Azure.
- Ansible: An automation platform that can provision cloud instances, manage configurations, and deploy applications.
- Packer: A tool used to automate the creation of virtual machine images across multiple platforms.
These tools coordinate tasks across multiple services and instances in a cloud environment.
- Kubernetes: A platform for automating deployment, scaling, and operations of application containers across clusters of hosts.
- Docker Swarm: Native clustering and orchestration for Docker containers.
- OpenStack: An open-source cloud platform that allows for the deployment and management of large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources.
Tools that monitor the performance, availability, and health of cloud services.
- Prometheus: A systems and service monitoring tool designed for dynamic cloud environments, often used with Kubernetes.
- Grafana: A monitoring tool that works with various databases and can visualize metrics related to cloud performance.
- CloudWatch: (AWS-specific) Monitors AWS cloud resources and applications.
- Fluentd: A tool for collecting and processing log data, often used with cloud logging systems.
Command-line tools provided by cloud vendors to manage cloud resources.
- AWS CLI: Command-line interface for managing AWS services.
- gcloud: Command-line interface for managing Google Cloud services.
- Azure CLI: Command-line interface for managing Azure resources.
Tools that ensure data is backed up and systems are recoverable in the cloud.
- Duplicity: Backs up encrypted, bandwidth-efficient data to multiple cloud storage backends.
- Restic: A fast, secure, and cross-platform backup program that works well with cloud storage.
Tools that provide security management and control for cloud environments.
- Vault (HashiCorp): Secures, stores, and tightly controls access to secrets like API keys, passwords, certificates, and other sensitive data.
- AWS IAM: Manages access to AWS resources securely.
- GCP IAM: Identity and Access Management for Google Cloud Platform.