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1. Open Source Tools & Frameworks: Reference-Card
# Domain/Tier Component Tools/Framework Alternatives Top - Framework/Tool Software Vendor Link
1 Infrastructure
Operating System Centos, CoreOS, Alpine, ubuntu, Linux
Redhat Linux Redhat
https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/linux-platforms/enterprise-linux
2
Virtualization
VMWare ESX, RedHat, Microsofft Hyer-V, Citrix Hypervisor,
Nutanix Acropolis, IBM PowerVM VMWare ESX VMware
https://www.vmware.com/in/products/esxi-and-esx.html
3
Containerized Platform Redhat OpenShift, MS Azure, AWS, IBM Cloud Private, Oracle
Cloud
OpenShift Redhat
https://www.openshift.com/
4
Cloud Infrastructure
Management
IBM Cloud Automation Manager, OpenStack, Apache CloudStack,
Eucalyptus cloud platform, Cloud Foundry
Apache CloudStack Apache
https://cloudstack.apache.org/
5 Platform
Container Orchestration Kubernetes, MESOS, Prometheus, Flocker, Mesosphere DC/OS,
Helios
Kubernetes Google
https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/
6
Container
Docker, Rocket, OSv, Microsoft Containers, Solaris Containers Docker IBM
https://www.ibm.com/cloud/garage/content/course/containers-and-docker/2
7
Application Runtime Open JDK, Oracle JDK, IBM JDK, Red Hat for Windows,
AdoptOpenJDK
Open JDK
Oracle Corporation, Red Hat, IBM,
Apple, SAP
https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/community/opensourcejdk-
jsp-136417.html
8
Application Web
Container
Apache Tomcat, WebSphere Liberty, Wildfly, TomEE, Payara Apache Tomcat Apache
http://tomcat.apache.org/
9
Application Microservices Realization
Language
Java, Python, R, C# Java Oracle
https://www.oracle.com/in/java/
10 Microservices framework
Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Java Liberty, Microprofile, Java EE,
Angular UI/JS
Spring Apache
https://spring.io/projects/spring-framework
11
Documentation
Swagger, Readme.io, Apiary, Gelato.io, Stoplight.io Swagger SmartBear Software
https://smartbear.com/news/news-releases/sponsorship-of-swagger/
12
Service Registration &
Discovery
Eureka, Consul, Istio, Zookeeper, Etcd, DNS Istio Google, IBM, and Lyft
https://istio.io/docs/setup/kubernetes/
13 DevOps
Continous Planning
IBM Rational Team Concert, IBM Rational DOORS® Next
Generation, Collaborative Lifecycle Management as a service
(CLMaaS),JIRA, Kanboard.net, Confluence
JIRA Atlassian
https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
14
Continous Integration &
Collaborative
Development
Rational Collaboration Lifecycle Management, Rational Lifecycle
Integration Adapter,, IBM Worklight Studio, IBM UrbanCode
Build, Git, Jenkins, Gerrit, Bugzilla,Maven, Gradle
Jenkins Jenkins
https://jenkins.io/
15 Continous Testing
Highly Available Test Chassis (HATC), Delphix (Database
Virtualization), Selenium, JUnit, Cucumber, Selenium, JMeter,
SOAP UI
Junit Apache
https://ant.apache.org/manual/Tasks/junit.html
16
Continous Release &
Deployment
IBM UrbanCode Deploy with Patterns, IBM UrbanCode Release,
Chef, Puppet, Juju, Docker, Ansible, Salt
Ansible Redhat
https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/management/ansible
17
Configuration
Management
Spring Cloud Config, Subversion, GIT, Apache ZooKeeper, etcd,
Netflix archaius, Consul, JIRA
JIRA Insights Atlassian
https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
18
Continous Monitoring /
Alerting
Graphite, Graphana, Collectd, AWS CloudWatch/Alarms,
AppDynamics, NewRelic, SmartCloud Application Performance
Management (APM), IBM Service Engage, Nagios, Nmon, Cacti,
Logstash, Fluentd, New Relic,Prometheus, Nagios
Graphana Apache
https://grafana.com/dashboards/3611
19
Continous Feedback &
Optimization
IBM Tealeaf Customer Behavior Analysis, IBM Digital Analytics,
Mobile First Quality Assurance, Open Web Analytics (OWA),
Webalizer, W3Perl
Open Web Analytics (OWA) Peter Adams
http://www.openwebanalytics.com/
20
Security Application Security Spring Cloud Security, HTTP Basic, OAuth2, JSON Web Tokens,
Digital Certificates,Spring Security, Splunk
Spring Apache
https://spring.io/projects/spring-framework
21 Data Security
SecureSphere WAF, SecureSphere Data Security, Oracle Advance
Security, Elastic Search X-Pack
SecureSphere Data Security Imperva
https://www.imperva.com/resources/resource-
library/datasheets/securesphere-database-security/
22 IAM
Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager, Microsoft Active
Directory, RSA SecurID, Microsoft PKI
Microsoft Forefront Identity
Manager,
Microsoft
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/iamsupport/tag/forefront-identity-
manager
23 Common Logging
ELK Stack - Elastic Search, LogStash, Kibana, Splunk, Logly,
SumoLogic, AWS CloudWatch/Logs, Logentries, IBM Cloud Log
Analysis, Others, Nagios, Prometheus
Elasticsearch Elastic NV
https://www.elastic.co/
24 Event Visualization ELK Stack Logstash, Elastic Search, Kibana Kibana Apache https://www.elastic.co/products/kibana
25 Assets & Accelerators
Microservices Generator - Microclimate, Spring Initializr, IBM
Cloud Developer tools or IBM Cloud UI, Wildfly Swarm Project
Generator, Liberty app accelerator
Microclimate IBM
https://www.ibm.com
26 Search Engine Elasticsearch, Apache Solr, Lucene, Sphinx, Xapian, Indri Elasticsearch Elastic NV https://www.elastic.co/
27
Integration Messaging Bus
Message Hub (on prem - not there), Confluent, Apache Kafka
server. Supported in Spring Cloud Stream,RabbitMQ, Apache
Qpid9, Red Hat Enterprise MRG, ActiveMQ, IBM MQ, IBM
Integration Bus, IBM DataPower Gateway
Apache Kafka Apache
https://kafka.apache.org/
28 API Gateway
Spring Cloud Gateway, API Connect, Tyk, Amazon AWS API
Gateway, Kong, Express Gateway, API Manager
Spring Apache
https://spring.io/projects/spring-framework
29 Orchestration IBM Event Streams, Apache Flink, jBPM jBPM Redhat https://developers.redhat.com/products/rhpam/overview/
30 Database OLTP PostgreSQL, MariaDB, SQLite, MySQL PostgreSQL PostgreSQL https://www.postgresql.org/
31 ETL JasperSoft ETL, Oracle ODI, Pentaho Kettle, CloverETL JasperSoft ETL TIBCO https://www.jaspersoft.com/data-integration
32
Object Relationship
Mapper
Hibernate, EclipseLink, Apache OpenJPA, Spring Data Hibernate Redhat
https://hibernate.org/
33
Real time Data Integration
/ Replication
Oracle Golden Gate, Oracle Data Guard, IBM InfoSphere, iWay
Software, Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services, OpenText,
Alooma, Confluent, SnapLogic
Confluent Confluent
https://www.confluent.io/
34 BI and Dashboarding
BIRT, JasperReport Pentaho, SpagoBI, KNIME, ReportServer, Seal
Report JasperReport TIBCO
https://community.jaspersoft.com/project/jasperreports-library
Author: Sameer Paradkar is an Enterprise Architect with 15+ years of extensive experience in the ICT industry which spans across Consulting, Product Development and Systems Integration. He is an Open Group TOGAF, Oracle
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