I’m looking for tools that can handle both cloud infrastructure provisioning and full pipeline orchestration, including deployment, monitoring, and rollback strategies. A brief description of each tool would be helpful.
Hello @apksha.shukla
I’ve been using GitLab CI/CD for a while now, and I’d vouch for it as one of the most flexible release orchestration tools out there, especially if you’re self-hosting or want a single DevOps platform.
It lets us provision cloud resources using Terraform as part of the same pipeline where we deploy, test, monitor, and even roll back releases based on Sentry alerts.
The .gitlab-ci.yml approach gives you full control, and we pair it with Prometheus for monitoring hooks.
What I love is how everything, from issue tracking to release tagging, stays within one UI.
From my time working on a fintech project with multi-cloud requirements, Azure DevOps became our go-to release orchestration tool. It offers tight integration with infrastructure provisioning via ARM/Bicep or Terraform and handles pipelines (CI/CD), gated deployments, and rollback strategies out of the box.
The visibility into releases and the ability to define approvals and monitoring using Azure Monitor made it really powerful.
What stood out for us was the native integration across code, infra, and release, felt very streamlined. If you’re deep in the Microsoft ecosystem, it’s a solid pick.
In our team’s experience, Spinnaker has been fantastic for advanced release orchestration, especially when paired with Kubernetes.
It’s definitely heavier to set up, but the trade-off is worth it if you’re managing complex multi-region cloud deployments.
We use it to handle canary deployments, rollback based on metrics, and automatic promotion between environments.
It connects well with cloud provisioning tools like Terraform or Pulumi, and we monitor everything via built-in integrations with Datadog and Stackdriver. If your cloud automation needs go beyond basics, Spinnaker is worth considering.