E032 – 2018 State of DevOps Report

• Intro
• Greg’s Background
• Intro to DevOps
• Tools you’ve used
• Intro to the report & this year vs. previous years
  • Feels more general and high-level than some of the previous reports (no MTTR mentioned for instance)
• Who took the survey?
  • Surveyed over 30,000 people in 7 years (~4,300 / yr)
  • Technology is overrepresented – 38% of total respondents
  • Energy & Resources was only 2%
  • Tech + FS = 50%
  • Infosec = only 3% of people
  • 29% were dedicated DevOps (14% IT, 15% Dev/Eng)
• Keywords
  
  • Data is mentioned 43 times in the report
  • Security = 65x
  • Agile = 7
  • DevOps = 328
  • Top 10 words in Word Cloud: (removed Puppet | State of DevOps footer on each page)
    • 245DevOps
    • 210teams
    • 149Stage
    • 123practices
    • 111can
    • 99team
    • 79organizations
    • 75services
    • 73business
    • 69success
  • No DataOps, no SecOps or DevSecOps
• C-suite seems out of touch with conditions on the ground
  • Differences in perception – p. 30
  • Sometimes overstate team’s opinion by a factor of 2x
• Stages in the report:
  
  • First
    • Stage 0: Build the foundation
  • Second
    • Stage 1: Normalize the technology stack
    • Stage 2: Standardize and reduce variability
    • Stage 3: Expand DevOps practices
  • Third
    • Stage 4: Automate infrastructure delivery
    • Stage 5: Provide self-service capabilities
• CAMS = Culture, Automation, Measurability, Sharing
• Principal Industries:
  • Top: Tech, Financial Services, Manufacturing/Industry
  • Bottom: Non-Profit, Energy/Resources, Media
  • Trend: Most to least competition?

Music:

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Sources:

• https://puppet.com/resources/whitepaper/state-of-devops-report
• https://devops-research.com/ – DORA – DevOps Research & Assessment, authors of the report
• https://www.wordclouds.com/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregwwalters/

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