Best 20+ Tools for Dev Ops Engineers in 2025

Authentik is a tool that manages how users sign in to your applications and services. Think of it as a central security checkpoint that verifies who someone is before letting them access your systems.

Casdoor is a complete identity management solution that handles user authentication and authorization for your applications. It supports OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML, CAS, and LDAP protocols, making it compatible with almost any application or service.

Tesseral is a complete authentication system designed for business-to-business software applications. It handles user login, permission management, and security features so developers can focus on building their main product.

Ping Identity is a complete security platform that manages who can access your business applications and data. It acts as a gatekeeper, checking user identities before allowing access to sensitive information. When someone tries to log in, Ping Identity verifies they are who they claim to be using various methods like passwords, phone authentication, or fingerprints.

Ory is a complete identity management system that handles user authentication and access control for web and mobile applications. It combines several specialized tools that work together to protect your application and manage who can access what.

FusionAuth is a complete authentication system that manages who can access your application and what they can do. You can install it on your own computer, your company servers, or use their cloud service. This flexibility makes it different from most authentication tools that force you to use only their cloud.

Pomerium is a zero trust access proxy that sits between users and internal applications. It verifies identity and permission before allowing access to any resource. The tool works by connecting to your existing identity provider like Google, Okta, Azure, or others.

Stytch is an authentication service that helps developers add login and security features to their websites and mobile apps. Instead of building authentication from scratch, developers can use Stytch's ready-made tools and code libraries to quickly set up secure user login.

Amazon Cognito is a cloud service that manages user authentication and authorization for applications. It has two main parts: user pools and identity pools. User pools store user profiles and handle login, while identity pools give users access to AWS resources.

Logto is an authentication and identity management platform that handles user sign-in, permissions, and security for your applications. You can use it as a cloud service or install it on your own servers since it's open-source.