DevOps-Bash-tools is an MIT-licensed collection of more than 1,200 Bash scripts for DevOps and data-platform work, aimed at engineers who automate cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and SQL or Hadoop-ecosystem operations from the command line.

What it is

DevOps-Bash-tools is a large Bash script library published by Hari Sekhon and hosted on GitHub. Its 1,200-plus scripts cover AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD systems, APIs, SQL databases, and the Hadoop family, with support scripts for Jenkins, GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket, Azure DevOps, and TeamCity. Alongside the operational scripts it ships code and build linting, package-management helpers for Linux, Mac, Python, Perl, Ruby, NodeJS, and Golang, and advanced dotfiles covering .bashrc, .vimrc, .gitconfig, .screenrc, and tmux. The project lives in the Shell ecosystem and runs on Linux and Mac, with a published container image for environments where cloning the repository is not practical.

The concrete problem it solves is the fragmentation of everyday DevOps automation. Rather than each engineer maintaining a private folder of one-off shell helpers for querying PostgreSQL or MySQL, listing Kubernetes resources, hitting an API, or formatting Hive and Impala queries, the project collects those routines in one versioned, MIT-licensed repository with consistent structure. It replaces the ad-hoc shell snippets and half-documented personal dotfiles that otherwise accumulate across a team, and it extends that consolidation into areas that rarely get script libraries of their own, such as LDAP work, Spotify and MP3 handling, and Kafka or Hadoop operations.

Key capabilities

• Over 1,200 Bash scripts spanning AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, and CI/CD tooling.
• Database and data-platform scripting for SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Hive, Impala, Kafka, and Hadoop, with Cloudera among the repository topics.
• Source and pipeline integrations for Jenkins, GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket, Azure DevOps, and TeamCity.
• Code and build linting, plus package-management helpers for Linux, Mac, Python, Perl, Ruby, NodeJS, and Golang.
• Advanced dotfiles for .bashrc, .vimrc, .gitconfig, .screenrc, and tmux.
• A published Docker image, harisekhon/bash-tools, alongside Dockerfiles kept in the separate HariSekhon/Dockerfiles repository.
• Coverage of peripheral domains including APIs, LDAP, Spotify, and MP3.

Who uses it and how

• Platform and infrastructure engineers who need repeatable command-line routines for AWS, GCP, and Kubernetes work without writing them per project.
• Data engineers operating SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Hive, Impala, Kafka, and Hadoop clusters, including Cloudera environments.
• CI/CD maintainers wiring Jenkins, GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket, Azure DevOps, or TeamCity jobs with shared shell logic.
• Individual engineers adopting the bundled dotfiles and linting configuration as a starting point for their own workstation setup.
• The project has 8,411 stars, 1,587 forks, and only 8 open issues, and the hacktoberfest topic indicates it accepts outside contributions.

Getting started

The repository is cloned from GitHub to obtain the scripts and dotfiles, and the containerised option is the Docker Hub image harisekhon/bash-tools. Dockerfiles for building the image live in the companion HariSekhon/Dockerfiles repository.

How it compares

No list of paid products replaced by this project is provided, and this registry names no direct peer. Within the HariSekhon portfolio, sibling repositories referenced from the project badges cover equivalent ground in other languages, namely DevOps-Python-tools, DevOps-Perl-tools, and SQL-scripts, so the Bash project is the shell-language member of that family rather than a standalone effort.

When to use it — and when not to

The scripts are self-hosted shell code that runs against the operator's own credentials and infrastructure, so there is nothing to deploy or pay for, but there is also no hosted documentation site: the homepage field points to the author's LinkedIn profile. Teams that need vendor support, a formal release process, or Windows compatibility should look elsewhere, and anyone expecting a guided installer will find the README excerpt dominated by build and quality badges rather than prose instructions. The MIT licence and the recent push date of 2026-09-15 are clear positives; the sparse narrative documentation is the obvious gap.