Businesses of all sizes are shifting some or all of their data and applications to cloud computing environments to take advantage of all the benefits available to them: availability, flexibility, scalability, accessibility, etc… The migration and the tools used to do it have to be assessed correctly to be successful.
The purpose of this article is to list tools that everyone should be aware of when it is time to manage a cloud infrastructure. In the cloud, it is obviously better to rely on cloud services offered by the provider but sometimes it is better to use open-source projects to facilitate the management.