Oshyn's Tools for DevOps

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DevOps Maintenance

Christian Burne

Mar 09, 2020

Here at Oshyn, we feel it's important to keep up with the latest and greatest tools for supporting our DevOps customers using production Sitecore installations in the cloud. In this post I will discuss some of the tools we use to keep the Sitecore sites we maintain and operate running in the best possible condition. Because our Sitecore DevOps engineers were born out of Sitecore development, we take a holistic approach to DevOps for Sitecore:

Develop

	Visual Studio / VS Code	IDE (Integrated Development Environment)
	ReSharper	Code quality, refactoring, unit test execution, code coverage
	NUnit	Unit test framework
	xUnit	Unit test framework
	Selenium	UI test framework
	Git	Source control for on-premises installations, Azure and AWS

Build

	Jenkins	Build and test execution management, code quality, and dependency vulnerability checks plus process gating to ensure failures get sent back to development
	Azure DevOps	Build and test execution management
	Allure	Test reports for managers
	Cobertura	Coverage reports for developers
	Dependency-Check	Checks for vulnerabilities in dependent libraries against NIST NVD database
	ReSharper	Code quality checks

Release

	Octopus	Release and environment management, package promotion, rollbacks of deployments
	Azure DevOps	Release and environment management, package promotion, rollbacks of deployments
	Sonatype Nexus Repository	Package / artifact repository

Monitor

	AWS Cloudwatch	Dashboards, Metrics, alerts and notifications native to the AWS cloud environment
	Azure Application Insights	Dashboards, metrics, alerts, and notifications native to the Azure cloud environment
	PRTG	Dashboards, metrics, alerts, and notifications to consolidate across on-premises, Azure, and AWS
	Screaming Frog SEO Spider	SEO crawler for SEM experts to keep track of their SEO performance across builds of the website
	Slack	Notifications to Oshyn DevOps staff
	Email	Notifications to Oshyn DevOps staff
	SMS	Notifications to Oshyn DevOps staff

Manage

	Azure Portal	Active adjustments to Azure resources to optimize usage and billing
	AWS System Manager & AWS Console	Active adjustments to Azure resources to optimize usage and billing

This toolset allows us to provide the highest level of DevOps services that our customers expect and want for their production Sitecore environments in Azure and AWS. We are continuously searching for new tools to add to our toolbox to ensure our customers' production Sitecore environments stay highly available and secure for their customers.