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.
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
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