In this section, we will briefly go over some tools that can help you in your deployment pipeline and that serve different purposes.
Deployment ecosystem
Infrastructure tooling
We briefly mentioned Chef earlier in the chapter; Chef is a great tool to use to automate standing up infrastructure in a reliable manner. It is difficult without the proper tools to make sure that each new environment that you set up is done in the same manner. Potentially, you could create new environments that have different configurations, which can be very problematic when troubleshooting.