The table below provides a summary of the cloud infrastructure tools both formally or informally evaluated by ISC with ratings to reflect our experience. While considering these results, keep in mind that for many technologies we are employing a first-best fit approach, making use of what adds the most value to us quickly as a placeholder until the technology can be formally evaluated. Given that, ratings are subject to change as the technology stack evolves and we gain more hands-on experience with each technology.
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Exceeds: This technology offered a greater opportunity than anticipated by our evaluation criteria.
Meets: This technology met the expectations of our evaluation criteria.
Does not meet: This technology did not perform as expected, or did not work well with other technologies in use.
In progress: We do not yet have enough information to make a preliminary rating for this technology.
N/A: There is no evaluation criteria in this category for this technology.
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| AWS |
Amazon Web Services' secure cloud platform that offers a broad set of global compute, storage, database, analytics, application, and deployment services |
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| Chef |
A platform that automates how infrastructure is configured, deployed, and managed across a network |
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| Datadog |
A monitoring service for cloud-scale applications, bringing together data from servers, databases, tools, and services to present a unified view of an entire stack |
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| Docker |
An open platform for developers and sysadmins to build, ship, and run distributed applications, whether on laptops, data center VMs, or the cloud |
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| Gitlab.com |
A version control system for tracking changes in computer files and coordinating work on those files among multiple people |
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| Jenkins |
A self-contained, open source automation server that can be used to automate tasks related to building, testing, and delivering or deploying software |
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| Lucidchart |
An online diagram software and visual solution that allows users to collaborate and create flowcharts, org charts, website wireframes, UML designs, software prototypes, etc. |
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| PuTTY |
A free implementation of SSH and Telnet for Windows and Unix platforms, along with an |
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| Slack |
A cloud-based set of collaboration tools and services |
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