Cool DevOps Tools - Gerrit and Let's Chat

I would recommend all teams to leverage the following open source tools to add more juice to their DevOps operations and improve team collaboration.

Gerrit - A valuable web-based code review tool that comes with Git embedded. Can be very useful to help your junior team-mates learn about good coding practices and refactoring. A good introduction video is here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wxx8XndqZ7A

Let's Chat - Digital Natives don't like to write long emails and abhor email chains. Use this on-premise hosted web-based chat server to create discussion rooms and share knowledge and get questions answered.

Managing Database Versions in an Agile Project

Today we have a robust set of tools for code versioning, CI and release management - for e.g. Java, .NET, Ruby web or REST applications. Examples of tools are Github, Hudson, Jetkins, etc.

But what about the RDBMS? How do we manage it across the various environments - i.e. from development to integration to UAT to production. A good illustration of the typical challenges is given here.

Flyway is a tool to address these problems. Using simple techniques such as a schema-version table and automatically apply db scripts (that follow a naming convention for sequence tracking), the tool can help any Agile project in managing RDBMS instances across different environments. It would also be a nifty addition to your existing DevOps tools.