ITPro Today's 2024 State of DevOps Report

ITPro Today surveyed 350 DevOps professionals to gain insight into the current state of DevOps practices. The findings reveal how DevOps has reshaped organizations, the obstacles hindering its broader adoption, and the emerging technologies and practices driving future DevOps initiatives.

A strong majority of organizations — nearly three-quarters — say they are using DevOps to improve software development and deployment processes. But what, exactly, does that mean? How are businesses actually implementing DevOps? Which benefits are they achieving, and which challenges or pitfalls hinder their ability to take greater advantage of DevOps?

To help answer these questions, ITPro Today surveyed 350 professionals who work in DevOps or related fields. The findings offer valuable insight into what DevOps means in practice for the typical organization today.

In particular, survey results reveal:

• Most professionals have a clear understanding of how to implement DevOps, although there remains some ambiguity and disagreement surrounding how to translate the DevOps philosophy into actual practices.
• The vast majority of IT organizations today are using DevOps to some extent. However, in many cases, they are not yet applying DevOps as extensively as they would like.
• A variety of challenges impede efforts to expand DevOps initiatives, with lack of appropriate DevOps tools and trouble hiring DevOps talent topping the list.
• The main benefit of DevOps for the typical organization today is faster software releases. For the typical organization, DevOps has increased release velocity by 21% to 50%.
• Approaches to structuring DevOps teams vary widely, but embedding DevOps engineers into software development and IT teams is the most common practice.
• More than one-third of organizations say they have successfully integrated security efficiently into DevOps, although slightly more report that collaboration between their security and DevOps functions remains limited.
• Generative AI technology plays a prominent role in modern DevOps initiatives. The most common genAI use cases include writing code and assisting with software quality assurance and testing.

By examining these trends, this report details the state of DevOps in the modern business. It provides a grounded look at how DevOps has transformed organizations, which challenges stand in the way of further DevOps adoption, and which technologies and practices are poised to shape DevOps initiatives going forward. Download your free copy of the report today!

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