# Tools & Technologies

This section contains reference documentation for tools and technologies used in the Forge platform ecosystem.

<div class="quick-links">
  <a href="aspire/">🚀 Aspire</a>
  <a href="terraform/">🏗️ Terraform</a>
  <a href="kiota/">🔌 Kiota</a>
  <a href="saifcli/">⚙️ SAIF CLI</a>
  <a href="typespec/">📐 TypeSpec</a>
  <a href="azure/">☁️ Azure</a>
</div>

---

## 📚 Tools by Category

### ☁️ Cloud/SaaS

- [Azure](./azure.md) - Microsoft's cloud platform offering services like computing, storage, databases, AI, and networking
- [Azure DevOps Services](./azure-devops-services.md) - Cloud-based platform for CI/CD, version control, and work tracking
- [Dynatrace](./dynatrace.md) - Software intelligence platform for monitoring, analyzing, and optimizing application performance
- [Terraform Cloud](./terraform-cloud.md) - Managed service for infrastructure automation at scale
- [WireMock](./wiremock.md) - Hosted service for mocking and simulating APIs

### 🛠️ Development Tools

- [Kiota](./kiota.md) - Tool for generating strongly-typed client code from OpenAPI descriptions
- [OpenTelemetry](./opentelemetry.md) - Open-source framework for collecting telemetry data like traces, metrics, and logs
- [Project Templates](./project-templates.md) - .NET CLI templates for creating standardized project structures
- [SAIF CLI](./saifcli.md) - Command line tool for automating SAIF platform development tasks
- [Terraform](./terraform.md) - Infrastructure as Code tool for defining and provisioning infrastructure
- [TypeSpec](./typespec.md) - Language for defining data models and generating schemas and API specifications

### 🖥️ Local Development

- [Aspire](./aspire.md) - Framework for building observable, production-ready .NET cloud-native applications
- [Docker Desktop](./docker-desktop.md) - Application for building, sharing, and running containerized applications

### 💻 .NET Tools

- [Entity Framework](./entity-framework.md) - Object-Relational Mapper (ORM) for .NET database operations