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DevOps Toolchain

My complete DevOps toolstack organized by SDLC phase — from planning through monitoring

Cloud Platforms

AWS

Primary Cloud Platform

Azure

Cloud Platform & Gov

GCP

Cloud Platform

AWS GovCloud

IL4/IL5/IL6 Environments

Documentation & Collaboration

Obsidian

Knowledge Management

Notion

Documentation & Wiki

Confluence

Team Documentation

Excalidraw

Architecture Diagrams

Slack

Team Communication

Microsoft Teams

Collaboration Platform

Development & Version Control

VS Code

Primary IDE

Claude Code

AI Development Assistant

ChatGPT

AI Coding Assistant

Git

Version Control

GitHub

Code Repository

GitLab

DevOps Platform & RBAC

iTerm2

Terminal Emulator

CI Pipelines & Registries

GitHub Actions

CI/CD Pipelines

GitLab CI

Build Automation

AWS CodePipeline

AWS Build Service

Docker

Container Build

Docker Desktop

Local Container Runtime

ECR

AWS Container Registry

ACR

Azure Container Registry

Harbor

Private Registry

Quality Gates & Security Scanning

Trivy

Vulnerability Scanner

ClamAV

Antivirus Scanning

K6

Load & Synthetic Testing

Playwright

Browser Automation

Postman

API Testing

GitOps & CD Automation

FluxCD

GitOps Deployment

ArgoCD

GitOps Deployment

Argo Workflows

Workflow Orchestration

Renovate

Automated Dependency Updates

Helm

Kubernetes Package Manager

Kustomize

Kubernetes Config Management

Infrastructure & Orchestration

Kubernetes

Container Orchestration

EKS

AWS Managed Kubernetes

AKS

Azure Managed Kubernetes

RKE2

Rancher K8s - Gov/Defense

K3s

Lightweight Kubernetes

k9s

Kubernetes TUI

Terraform

Infrastructure as Code

Terragrunt

Terraform Orchestration

Ansible

Configuration Management

Istio

Service Mesh & mTLS

HashiCorp Vault

Secrets Management

AWS Secrets Manager

Cloud Secrets

Azure Key Vault

Cloud Secrets

Velero

Kubernetes Backup & DR

Observability & Alerting

Prometheus

Metrics Collection

Grafana

Observability Dashboard

Loki

Log Aggregation

Alloy

Metrics Collection

OpenTelemetry

Traces, Metrics, Logs

AlertManager

Alert Routing

AWS CloudWatch

Cloud Monitoring

Security & Compliance

Chainguard

Distroless Images

Iron Bank

DoD Hardened Containers

Big Bang

DoD Platform Baseline

AWS WAF

Web Application Firewall

SIEM

Security Monitoring

AWS Conformance Packs

CMMC 2.0 L2 Compliance

1Password

Password Manager

Databases & Datastores

PostgreSQL

Relational Database

Redis

In-Memory Cache

MongoDB

Document Database

Supabase

Backend as a Service

Utilities & Lifestyle

jq

JSON Processor

yq

YAML Processor

Spotify

Focus Music

Disc Golf

Recreation & Focus