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Essential Ops Toolkit: 58 Core Tools for Modern Infrastructure Management

This article compiles a comprehensive matrix of 58 mainstream operations tools—covering operating systems, open‑source mirrors, containers, AI‑assisted ops, basic services, databases, monitoring, automation, CI/CD and service mesh—to help engineers quickly locate the right technology stack for efficient infrastructure management.

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Essential Ops Toolkit: 58 Core Tools for Modern Infrastructure Management

Operations daily work spans multiple toolchains, including infrastructure, databases, middleware, networking, monitoring, and logging. This article systematically organizes official resources for 58 mainstream tools into a complete operations tool matrix, enabling engineers to quickly locate the appropriate technology stack.

Operating Systems

Ubuntu: https://ubuntu.com

Debian: https://www.debian.org

RHEL: https://www.redhat.com

Rocky Linux: https://rockylinux.org

AlmaLinux: https://almalinux.org

Arch Wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org

Kylin OS: https://www.kylinos.cn/

UnionTech OS: https://uniontech.com/

openEuler: https://www.openeuler.org/zh/

Open‑Source Mirrors

Tsinghua: https://mirrors.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn

USTC: https://mirrors.ustc.edu.cn

Alibaba Cloud: https://developer.aliyun.com/mirror

Huawei Cloud: https://mirrors.huaweicloud.com

NetEase: http://mirrors.163.com

Tencent Cloud: https://mirrors.cloud.tencent.com

Containers & K8s

Docker: https://www.docker.com

Kubernetes: https://kubernetes.io

Helm: https://helm.sh

Podman: https://podman.io

containerd: https://containerd.io

K3s: https://k3s.io

Cilium: https://cilium.io/

Flannel: https://github.com/flannel-io/flannel

AI + Ops

dify: https://dify.ai/

FastGPT: https://github.com/labring/FastGPT

RAGFlow: https://github.com/infiniflow/ragflow

Basic Services

Nginx: https://nginx.org

Apache HTTPD: https://httpd.apache.org

Tomcat: https://tomcat.apache.org/

HAProxy: https://www.haproxy.org

CoreDNS: https://coredns.io

RabbitMQ: https://www.rabbitmq.com

Kafka: https://kafka.apache.org

Etcd: https://etcd.io

Consul: https://www.consul.io

Databases

MySQL: https://www.mysql.com

Oracle: https://www.oracle.com/

PostgreSQL: https://www.postgresql.org

MariaDB: https://mariadb.org

MongoDB: https://www.mongodb.com

OceanBase: https://www.oceanbase.com/

Redis: https://redis.io

Monitoring & Logging Systems

Prometheus: https://prometheus.io

Grafana: https://grafana.com

Loki: https://grafana.com/oss/loki/

Lens: https://k8slens.dev

Automation Ops

Ansible: https://docs.ansible.com/

Terraform: https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/docs

SaltStack: https://docs.saltproject.io/

Puppet: https://puppet.com/docs/

Chef: https://docs.chef.io/

CI/CD & Service Mesh

Jenkins: https://www.jenkins.io

GitLab CI/CD: https://about.gitlab.com

GitHub Actions: https://github.com/features/actions

ArgoCD: https://argo-cd.readthedocs.io/

Istio: https://istio.io/

Envoy Proxy: https://www.envoyproxy.io

Summary

Technology evolves rapidly; breakthroughs in hardware architecture, foundational software, network protocols, and computing paradigms lay the solid foundation for explosive growth of upper‑layer applications.

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