Adoption Radar

Adopt means use it. Trial means try it. Assess means watch it. Hold means avoid for now. Each tool links the proof.

What the rings mean

  • Adopt. Use it. Stable, updated in the last 6 months, lots of people use it.
  • Trial. Try it. Still young (before 1.0), or quiet for 6 to 18 months, or few users yet.
  • Assess. Watch it. Brand new, less than a year old.
  • Hold. Avoid for now. Dead, deprecated, or no update in 18 months.

Dot shape shows the license: ● open source, ■ free or free tier, ◆ paid. Every tool links the release page or notice that puts it in its ring.

The same tools as a table
ToolFamilyCategoryRingLicenseEasy to useBig real systems
Terraform HashiCorp's declarative infrastructure as code in HCL Platform Infrastructure as code Adopt Free tier, paid plans 60 50
OpenTofu Open-source Terraform fork under the Linux Foundation Platform Infrastructure as code Adopt Open source 60 50
Pulumi Infrastructure as code in TypeScript, Python, Go and .NET Platform Infrastructure as code Adopt Open source 50 60
AWS CDK AWS infrastructure in code, synthesized to CloudFormation Platform Infrastructure as code Adopt Open source 30 50
AWS CloudFormation AWS's native declarative infrastructure templates Platform Infrastructure as code Adopt Free, closed source 30 40
Bicep Microsoft's declarative language for Azure resources Platform Infrastructure as code Trial Open source 40 30
Crossplane Kubernetes control plane for cloud infrastructure Platform Infrastructure as code Adopt Open source 30 60
Terragrunt Orchestration wrapper for Terraform and OpenTofu stacks Platform Infrastructure as code Adopt Open source 40 40
Ansible Agentless configuration management over SSH Platform Infrastructure as code Adopt Open source 30 60
CDK for Terraform Terraform in general-purpose languages, now deprecated Platform Infrastructure as code Hold Open source 30 20
Backstage Open-source developer portal framework by Spotify Platform Developer portals Adopt Open source 40 20
Port Hosted internal developer portal with a flexible data model Platform Developer portals Adopt Free tier, paid plans 40 20
Cortex Hosted portal focused on service scorecards and ownership Platform Developer portals Adopt Paid 30 10
OpsLevel Hosted service catalog with maturity checks Platform Developer portals Adopt Paid 40 10
Humanitec Platform Orchestrator that wires workloads to infrastructure Platform Developer portals Trial Paid 40 50
Kratix Kubernetes framework for building platform APIs, by Syntasso Platform Developer portals Trial Open source 10 40
Roadie Managed, hosted Backstage Platform Developer portals Adopt Paid 30 20
GitHub Actions CI/CD workflows built into GitHub Platform CI/CD Adopt Free tier, paid plans 50 60
GitLab CI/CD Pipelines built into GitLab, hosted or self-managed Platform CI/CD Adopt Free tier, paid plans 50 70
Jenkins Long-standing self-hosted automation server Platform CI/CD Adopt Open source 40 60
CircleCI Hosted CI/CD with Docker, machine and macOS executors Platform CI/CD Adopt Free tier, paid plans 40 50
Buildkite Hosted CI control plane with agents on your own machines Platform CI/CD Adopt Free tier, paid plans 40 60
act Run GitHub Actions workflows locally in Docker Platform CI/CD Trial Open source 50 20
Tekton Kubernetes-native CI/CD pipeline building blocks Platform CI/CD Adopt Open source 10 70
Argo CD Declarative GitOps continuous delivery for Kubernetes Platform GitOps Adopt Open source 30 70
Flux CNCF GitOps toolkit for Kubernetes Platform GitOps Adopt Open source 30 70
Kargo Promote changes across environments on top of Argo CD Platform GitOps Adopt Open source 30 50
OpenTelemetry Vendor-neutral APIs, SDKs and Collector for telemetry Platform Observability Adopt Open source 40 50
Grafana Dashboards over metrics, logs and traces Platform Observability Adopt Open source 70 40
Prometheus CNCF metrics database and alerting Platform Observability Adopt Open source 60 50
Jaeger CNCF distributed tracing backend and UI Platform Observability Adopt Open source 70 30
grafana/otel-lgtm OTel Collector, Grafana, Loki, Tempo and Mimir in one image Platform Observability Trial Open source 70 20
SigNoz OpenTelemetry-native logs, metrics and traces in one app Platform Observability Trial Open source 50 50
Sentry Error tracking and performance monitoring Platform Observability Adopt Free tier, paid plans 50 20
Grafana Loki Label-indexed log aggregation from Grafana Labs Platform Observability Adopt Open source 30 50
Datadog Hosted monitoring, APM and logs platform Platform Observability Adopt Paid 50 50
HashiCorp Vault Secrets storage, dynamic credentials and encryption Platform Secrets and supply chain Adopt Free tier, paid plans 60 50
OpenBao Open-source Vault fork under the Linux Foundation Platform Secrets and supply chain Adopt Open source 60 50
Doppler Hosted secrets manager that injects env vars Platform Secrets and supply chain Adopt Free tier, paid plans 60 40
Infisical Open-source secrets manager and PKI Platform Secrets and supply chain Trial Open source 50 50
1Password CLI Inject secrets from 1Password vaults into commands and env Platform Secrets and supply chain Adopt Paid 40 20
SOPS Encrypt values in YAML, JSON and env files with KMS or age Platform Secrets and supply chain Adopt Open source 40 30
External Secrets Operator Sync secrets from external managers into Kubernetes Platform Secrets and supply chain Adopt Open source 10 40
Renovate Automated dependency update pull requests Platform Secrets and supply chain Adopt Open source 20 20
Dependabot GitHub's built-in dependency and security updates Platform Secrets and supply chain Adopt Free, closed source 20 20
Trivy Scanner for vulnerabilities, misconfigs and secrets Platform Secrets and supply chain Trial Open source 60 30
Syft Generate SBOMs from images and filesystems, by Anchore Platform Secrets and supply chain Adopt Open source 70 20
Grype Vulnerability scanner for images and SBOMs, by Anchore Platform Secrets and supply chain Trial Open source 60 20
Cosign Sign and verify container images, part of Sigstore Platform Secrets and supply chain Adopt Open source 30 30
Gitleaks Find committed secrets in git history Platform Secrets and supply chain Trial Open source 60 0
Snyk Hosted scanning for dependencies, code, containers and IaC Platform Secrets and supply chain Adopt Free tier, paid plans 50 40