Essential free tools for version control, deployment, and monitoring.
Source code management and automated pipelines via GitHub Actions.
Deploying applications and databases.
Centralized management of environment variables and API keys.
Tracking exceptions and performance bottlenecks in deployed applications.
Scanning infrastructure configurations for security misconfigurations.
Railway automatically deploys on push to specific GitHub branches.
Checkov runs as a GitHub Action to scan PRs for misconfigurations.
This stack provides a robust foundation for a junior DevOps engineer in a startup. It leverages generous free tiers to establish CI/CD, infrastructure hosting, secret management, and basic observability without incurring costs.
