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A global survey of 500 IT professionals suggests organizations are not making a lot of progress in their ability to truly observe application environments.View the full article

A Sauce Labs survey found many developers admitted they pushed code into a production environment without testing. View the full article

Please help us better understand and serve the developer community with just 20 minutes of your time. We want to know where developers are focused, what they’re working on, and what is most important to them. Your participation and input will help us build the best products and experiences for you. Take the Docker State of Application Development survey now! The survey is open from October 20, 2023 (7AM PST) to November 20, 2023 (11:59PM PST). View the full article

Most surveyed companies prefer a mix of public and private generative AI models. Security risks and technical complexity can slow adoption down.View the full article

Dynatrace found investments in automation have improved software quality, reduced deployment failures and decreased IT costs. View the full article

A survey found the biggest obstacles to observability were the pace of technology change, IT blind spots and the complexity of modern applications. View the full article

Platform engineering is emerging as method for managing DevOps at scale, but a survey suggested that many organizations are still not clear on the concept. View the full article

Canonical has conducted surveys about Kubernetes and Cloud Native Operations in the past two years. As a member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and an active part of the community, we contribute the anonymised results back, along with our analyses and the insights of industry experts. Everyone can submit an answer anonymously. Respondents only need to provide their contact address when participating in a gift raffle. The reports for 2021 and 2022 are freely available to everyone. We have also just opened our survey for 2023 at KubeCon NA 2023, so if you want to have your say and contribute insights for the cloud-native community, now’s your chance! Take the survey during the week of KubeCon NA 2023! A survey in the clouds, Salvador Dali style, the author has told an AI to paint this. Looking back the past two years With two surveys completed, we can also observe year-to-year changes. Let’s compare some key observations from the last two years. From Kubernetes setup to CI/CD pipelining and re-architecting While in 2021, most people (34%) said they were working on deploying Kubernetes as a service, this dropped to 10% in 2022. This year, most people responded that they were re-architecting a solution for Kubernetes, deploying a CI/CD pipeline or moving to an OSS solution. We can see that more and more organisations have transitioned into the next step of Kubernetes adoption. Security remains the most relevant selection criteria for base container images. The importance of security is not a big surprise, as we have seen many high-impact vulnerabilities reported in mainstream media. Security for container base images was ranked highest for about 55% of people in both years. The second most important qualities were stability and compliance in 2021 and 2022 respectively, ranked in second place by less than 40% of respondents. Despite all the initiatives, tools, solutions and technologies, the security community did not finish to make vulnerabilities and malware less critical and less of a concern for Kubernetes users. More efforts are required than what is available today to cover security sustainably. Kubernetes environments are stable Having almost the same answers in two consecutive survey years does not sound remarkable. However, it is striking that the percentage of people using AWS and Azure remained nearly the same. This is an important observation: once a setup is made, it is stable and leads to almost zero observable movements. The constant share of about 15% for OpenStack as a Kubernetes platform in both years confirms this observation: OpenStack is not dead. Lack of skills remains #1 problem Again, similar results, but a critical message: Every second person has seen in 2021 and 2022 lack of skills as the #1 challenge for Kubernetes adoption. And more than every third person has seen their organisation’s structure as the second most significant problem in both years. Having the same result for two years confirms a sustained demand for consulting and know-how to help organisations adopt Kubernetes. Organisations have evolved to the application level but challenges remain Comparing the results from two consecutive years shows that organisations went one step further from the deployment and setup of a Kubernetes environment to re-architecting their applications and automating their infrastructure. However, there are strikingly similar results over the last two years: security remains the most important thing to look at, confirming that several issues have not been solved yet. Access to talent remains an issue, providing opportunities for vendors and companies to fill the gap. Our 2023 survey is open! We’re now running the third edition of this survey for 2023! If you find this helpful and want to contribute to the 2023 report, you can support it now! The survey is open, so be part of the community and contribute to the freely available results for everyone (responses are kept anonymous): View the full article

A survey of 200 DevOps and IT/information security professionals published this week by Mezmo, a provider of an observability platform, conducted in collaboration with the market research firm Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), finds only 22% report their organization has a formal DevSecOps strategy to integrates security into their software development lifecycle (SDLC) processes. Among those […] View the full article

A survey of CEOs and IT professionals involved in application testing finds a significant gap in terms of how acceptable it is to release software that has not been properly tested. The survey, conducted by the market research firm Censuswide on behalf of Leapwork, a test automation platform provider, polled 480 CEOs in the U.S. […] The post Survey Warns of Looming Software Testing Crisis appeared first on DevOps.com. View the full article

A new survey found just under a quarter (23%) of respondents are now tracking all four of the DevOps metrics defined by the DevOps Research and Assessment Team (DORA), with another 17% now tracking three. The State of Developer Experience survey polled 129 IT professionals that play a role in software development and was conducted by […] The post Survey Shows Increased Reliance on DORA Metrics appeared first on DevOps.com. View the full article

A survey of 250 software developers and architects in the U.S. found nearly three-quarters of respondents (74%) reported that the average cost of an application modernization project is nearly $1.5 million, with 79% noting that at least one of these projects has failed. Conducted by Wakefield Research on behalf of vFunction, a provider of a […] The post Survey Reveals High Cost of Application Modernization appeared first on DevOps.com. View the full article

A survey of 458 development professionals, managers and senior leaders conducted by Techstrong Research, a sister entity of DevOps.com, found 43% are considering adding additional cloud service providers in the next 12 months. In total, nearly two-thirds said they are at least considering, evaluating or are ready to buy from a trusted alternative cloud vendor, […] View the full article

A survey published this week by the Linux Foundation suggested enterprise IT organizations now prefer to hire IT professionals that have both open source software and DevOps experience. Conducted in collaboration with edX, a leading global online learning platform from 2U, Inc., the survey polled 1,672 open source professionals and 559 respondents with responsibility for […] View the full article

A survey from Snyk and the Linux Foundation published today found that less than half of respondents (49%) work for organizations that have security policies in place for the use or development of open source software. The survey, which polled 550 software development professionals, was conducted by Snyk, a provider of tools for securing software, […] View the full article

A global survey from ReversingLabs found 87% of respondents agreed that software tampering has become a more frequently-used cybersecurity attack, but only 37% said they have any means to detect it. The survey, which polled 300 IT and security professionals, was conducted by Dimensional Research on behalf of ReversingLabs, a provider of a platform for […] The post Survey Surfaces Raft of Application Security Issues appeared first on DevOps.com. View the full article

The State of DevOps report by Google Cloud and the DORA research team is the largest and longest running research of its kind with inputs from over 32,000 professionals worldwide. It provides an independent view into the practices and capabilities that organizations, irrespective of their size, industry, and region, can employ to drive better performance. Today, Google Cloud and the DORA research team are excited to announce the launch of the 2022 State of DevOps survey. For the 2022 State of DevOps report we will be focusing on a topic that has been top of mind recently: security. As technology teams continue to accelerate and evolve, so do the quantity and sophistication of security threats. Security can no longer be an afterthought or the final step before delivery, it must be integrated throughout the software development process... Read Article

A survey published today for National DevOps Day found nearly two-thirds (63%) have seen an increase in the frequency of service incidents that have affected their customers over the course of the last 14 months. The survey polled 1,046 engineering, IT operations, DevOps and site reliability engineering (SRE) professionals at organizations with more than 300 […] The post Survey Surfaces Challenges Ahead on National DevOps Day appeared first on DevOps.com. View the full article

The recently released Secure Code Warrior State of Developer-Driven Security Survey revealed that developers continue to wrestle with secure coding practices in a working environment that has long prioritized features and functionality and speed at the expense of security. Of the more than 1,200 developers who took part in the survey, only 14% named security […] The post Competing Priorities Prevent Devs From Creating Secure Code appeared first on DevOps.com. View the full article

A survey of 360 CIOs and IT leaders in the U.S. and the United Kingdom found that, as the number of cloud platforms an organization employs expands, the number of tools they are required to deploy and master does, too. The survey, published this week by Virtana, a provider of a platform for managing cloud […] View the full article

A global survey of 1,250 observability practitioners, managers and other experts published today by Splunk found that sophisticated observability practitioners are able to cut downtime costs by 90%. That figure is based on an estimated cost of $23.8 million annually for comparative newcomers to $2.5 million. However, only 9% of respondents are advanced enough to […] The post Splunk Survey Surfaces Gains in Observability appeared first on DevOps.com. View the full article

Released today, data from more than 1,300 global respondents combines with expert analysis to reveal goals, benefits, and challenges of cloud-native technology in 2022 83% of respondents are using either hybrid or multi-cloud 38% see security as the biggest concern Nearly 50% say lack of in-house skills and limited manpower are the biggest obstacles to migrating to or using Kubernetes and containers 16 May 2022 – Canonical, the maker of Ubuntu, today released data from a new global survey revealing the goals, benefits, and challenges of cloud-native technologies. The second annual Kubernetes and Cloud Native Operations report has surveyed more than 1,300 IT professionals over the last year about their usage of Kubernetes, bare metal, VMs, containers, and serverless applications. The report also includes insights gathered by Canonical from experts at AWS, Google, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), Microsoft, WeaveWorks, and others. According to the survey, Kubernetes and cloud native technologies unlock innovation for organisations and allow them to achieve their goals. But the benefits of cloud native technologies vary, depending on their usage and the maturity of the organisations using them, with elasticity and agility, resource optimisation and reduced service costs identified as the top benefits, and security the most important consideration. Key Survey Findings and Expert Opinions 83% of respondents are using either hybrid or multi-cloud. In the last year alone, the percentage of respondents who did not use hybrid or multi-cloud dropped from 22.4% to 16.4%. Tim Hockin, principal software engineer at Google, discusses the reality behind that adoption: “People often build a straw man of hybrid or multi-cloud, with the idea of one giant mesh that spans the world and all the clouds, applications running wherever capacity is cheap and available. But in reality, that’s not at all what people are doing with it. What they’re actually doing is using each environment for just the things they have to use it for.” Mark Shuttleworth, CEO of Canonical, said of the increasing growth of hybrid cloud in the enterprise: “The key question is: how much of what you do every day can you do on multiple different clouds without thinking about it? For me, the sensible thing for a medium or large institution is to have a fully automated private cloud and also relationships with at least two public cloud providers. This way, businesses essentially benchmark themselves on doing any given operation on the private cloud and on the two public clouds.” 14% of respondents said that they run everything on Kubernetes, over 20% said on bare metal and VMs, and over 29% said a combination of bare metal, VMs, and Kubernetes. This distribution shows how the flexibility of Kubernetes allows organisations to run the same type of workloads everywhere. Looking back at last year’s highlight, where Kelsey Hightower stated that bare metal was a better choice for compute and resource-heavy use cases such as interactive machine learning jobs, it seems that the tune is changing. Actually, as running Kubernetes is becoming more accessible, Alexis Richardson speculates that organisations would further adopt Kubernetes on bare metal if they knew it was possible. 38% of respondents suggest that security is the most important consideration, whether operating Kubernetes, building container images, or defining an edge strategy. Keeping clusters up-to-date is a definitive best practice to solve security issues. However, according to Jose Miguel Parrella, principal architect at Microsoft, it is not as embedded within IT infrastructure strategy as one could expect. Today, it is more of a Day-30 discussion that only occurs within the small team of Kubernetes maintainers of every organisation. Combined with the fact that only 13.5% of people reported that they have “mastered” security in the cloud native space, it is clear that organisations have some room to grow when it comes to properly adopting and managing Kubernetes in production. Nearly 50% of respondents reported that lack of in-house skills and limited manpower were the biggest challenges when migrating to or using Kubernetes and containers. Ken Sipe, senior enterprise architect and co-chair of the Operator SDK, comments: “When people mention the lack of skill as a blocker, the truth is that they are often already in an environment where they are ready to do the next thing but don’t have the infrastructural or organisational support to do so. It is also a matter of buy versus build: when buying a solution and associated service, an organisation benefits from leveraging external resources and skillsets without having to build the capability in-house. When building it in house, the organisation can benefit from implementing its engineering discipline, which could be a useful differentiator.” To view the full report, click here. “The growth in Kubernetes and cloud-native technology shows no signs of stopping, so it’s vital that we understand the experience, and the concerns, of developers and users,” said David Booth, VP of Cloud Native Operations at Canonical. “This survey, and initiatives like the Canonical Operator Day at KubeCon this year, are ways for us not just to understand the needs of the enterprise ourselves, but to help increase the general understanding of this constantly evolving space.” About Canonical Canonical is behind Ubuntu, the leading OS for container, cloud, and hyperscale computing. Most public cloud workloads use Ubuntu, as do most new smart gateways, switches, self-driving cars, and advanced robots. Canonical provides enterprise security, support, and services to commercial users of Ubuntu. Established in 2004, Canonical is a privately held company. Contact Daniel Griffiths, Global Director of Communications pr@canonical.com View the full article

The amount of routine toil that site reliability engineers (SREs) perform declined slightly in the last year even though IT environments in general are becoming more complex to manage. An annual survey of 300 SREs conducted by Catchpoint, a provider of an IT monitoring platform, in collaboration with VMware and the DevOps Institute suggests that […] The post Survey Reveals Slight Decline in Level of SRE Toil appeared first on DevOps.com. View the full article

As more organizations clamor for employees with some type of DevOps education, higher education is responding in kind, according to survey findings. A survey of 843 students and teachers at various academic institutions who have had some exposure to the GitLab continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform suggests the number of individuals with DevOps skills graduating […] The post GitLab Survey Surfaces Advances in DevOps Education appeared first on DevOps.com. View the full article

Globally-reputed log management and log analysis company Logz.io’s recent DevOps Pulse 2020 Survey reveals great insight into demand and usage of cloud-based devops services. The largest survey of its kind, the DevOps Pulse 2020 saw participation by over 1000 engineers and developers from across the world, 56% of whom confirmed they used cloud-based devops services for a majority of their projects. View the full article