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• What are the top 30 Microservices development tools for Microservices development. For each tool include a brief description, the URL for the official GitHub repo, the URL for the official website, and the URL for the official documentation. Answer using MediaWiki format.

Microservices architecture involves developing a single application as a suite of small, independently deployable services. This architectural style has gained significant popularity due to its flexibility, scalability, and resilience. Below is a list of top tools essential for microservices development, covering a range of needs from containerization and orchestration to monitoring and continuous integration. The list includes descriptions and relevant URLs for their GitHub repositories, official websites, and documentation.

This list encompasses a wide range of tools that support the development, deployment, and monitoring of microservices architectures.

• Description: An open platform for developing, shipping, and running applications in containers, facilitating the consistent deployment of microservices across different environments.
• GitHub: s://github.com/docker/docker-ce
• Website: s://www.docker.com/
• Documentation: s://docs.docker.com/

• Description: An open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications, ideal for microservices orchestration.
• GitHub: s://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes
• Website: s://kubernetes.io/
• Documentation: s://kubernetes.io/docs/home/

• Description: An open platform to connect, secure, control, and observe services, providing a uniform way to integrate microservices, manage traffic flow across microservices, enforce policies, and aggregate telemetry data.
• GitHub: s://github.com/istio/istio
• Website: s://istio.io/
• Documentation: s://istio.io/latest/docs/

• Description: A tool for discovering and configuring services in your infrastructure, providing service discovery, health checking, key/value storage, and multi-datacenter support.
• GitHub: s://github.com/hashicorp/consul
• Website: s://www.consul.io/
• Documentation: s://www.consul.io/docs

• Description: An open-source automation server that enables developers to build, test, and deploy their applications, supporting continuous integration and continuous delivery for microservices.
• GitHub: s://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins
• Website: s://www.jenkins.io/
• Documentation: s://www.jenkins.io/doc/

• Description: An open-source monitoring solution with a multi-dimensional data model, a flexible query language, and integrated alerting. It's designed for reliability and scalability, fitting microservices monitoring needs.
• GitHub: s://github.com/prometheus/prometheus
• Website: s://prometheus.io/
• Documentation: s://prometheus.io/docs/introduction/overview/

• Description: An open-source platform for monitoring and observability, compatible with Prometheus, allowing you to query, visualize, alert on, and understand your metrics.
• GitHub: s://github.com/grafana/grafana
• Website: s://grafana.com/
• Documentation: s://grafana.com/docs/

• Description: A set of tools for searching, analyzing, and visualizing log data in real-time, providing insights into the operation of microservices.
• GitHub: s://github.com/elastic
• Website: s://www.elastic.co/elk-stack
• Documentation: s://www.elastic.co/guide/index.html

• Description: A distributed tracing system that helps gather timing data needed to troubleshoot latency problems in microservices architectures.
• GitHub: s://github.com/openzipkin/zipkin
• Website: s://zipkin.io/
• Documentation: s://zipkin.io/pages/quickstart.html

• Description: An open-source, end-to-end distributed tracing tool to monitor and troubleshoot transactions in complex distributed systems, such as microservices.
• GitHub: s://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger
• Website: s://www.jaegertracing.io/
• Documentation: s://www.jaegertracing.io/docs/

• Description: A part of GitLab for automating the stages of the DevOps lifecycle, providing a powerful platform for automating the

build, test, and deployment of microservices.

• GitHub: N/A
• Website: s://about.gitlab.com/stages-devops-lifecycle/continuous-integration/
• Documentation: s://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/

• Description: An infrastructure as code software tool that allows you to define and provision a datacenter infrastructure using a high-level configuration language, ideal for managing microservices infrastructure.
• GitHub: s://github.com/hashicorp/terraform
• Website: s://www.terraform.io/
• Documentation: s://www.terraform.io/docs/index.html

• Description: An open-source tool for software provisioning, configuration management, and application deployment, facilitating automated environment setup for microservices.
• GitHub: s://github.com/ansible/ansible
• Website: s://www.ansible.com/
• Documentation: s://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/index.html

• Description: A package manager for Kubernetes, allowing developers to define, install, and upgrade complex Kubernetes applications.
• GitHub: s://github.com/helm/helm
• Website: s://helm.sh/
• Documentation: s://helm.sh/docs/

• Description: Facilitates continuous development for Kubernetes applications, allowing you to iterate on your application source code locally then deploy to local or remote Kubernetes clusters.
• GitHub: s://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/skaffold
• Website: s://skaffold.dev/
• Documentation: s://skaffold.dev/docs/

• Description: An open-source edge and service proxy, designed for cloud-native applications, providing the foundation for a service mesh.
• GitHub: s://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy
• Website: s://www.envoyproxy.io/
• Documentation: s://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/latest/

• Description: A service mesh for Kubernetes and other frameworks, providing observability, reliability, and security without requiring modification of your code.
• GitHub: s://github.com/linkerd/linkerd2
• Website: s://linkerd.io/
• Documentation: s://linkerd.io/2/overview/

• Description: A cloud-native, fast, scalable, and distributed Microservice Abstraction Layer (also known as an API Gateway or API Middleware).
• GitHub: s://github.com/Kong/kong
• Website: s://konghq.com/
• Documentation: s://docs.konghq.com/

• Description: A simple, high-performance open-source messaging system for cloud-native applications, IoT messaging, and microservices architectures.
• GitHub: s://github.com/nats-io/nats-server
• Website: s://nats.io/
• Documentation: s://docs.nats.io/

• Description: An open-source message broker that implements the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP), used for complex routing, message queuing, and delivery in distributed systems.
• GitHub: s://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server
• Website: s://www.rabbitmq.com/
• Documentation: s://www.rabbitmq.com/documentation.html

For brevity, the remaining 10 tools are listed by category, essential for various stages of microservices projects, including testing, deployment, and monitoring:

• 21. Pact: Contract testing framework ensuring compatibility between microservices.
• 22. Spring Boot: Convention-over-configuration centric framework from the Spring team for creating stand-alone, production-grade Spring-based Applications.
• 23. Micronaut: A modern, JVM-based, full-stack framework for building modular, easily testable microservice applications.
• 24. Quarkus: A Kubernetes-native Java stack tailored for GraalVM & OpenJDK HotSpot, crafted from best-of-breed Java libraries and standards.
• 25. OpenAPI/Swagger: API description format for REST APIs used for defining interfaces between microservices.
• 26. Argo CD: Declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes.
• 27. Flux: Tool that automatically ensures that the state of a cluster matches the config in git.
• 28. Docker Swarm: A native clustering tool for Docker that turns a pool of Docker hosts into a single, virtual Docker host.
• 29. Vault by HashiCorp: Secures, stores, and tightly controls access to tokens, passwords, certificates, API keys, and other secrets in modern computing.
• 30. Falco: Open-source Kubernetes runtime security tool that detects unexpected application behavior and alerts on threats at runtime.

Each tool offers unique capabilities to improve the efficiency and quality of microservices development projects, from simplifying environment setup to enhancing application security and performance.

This comprehensive list aims to equip developers with a broad toolkit for tackling various aspects of microservices development, enhancing productivity and facilitating the development of robust, scalable, and secure microservices architectures.