E032 – 2018 State of DevOps Report

For the Love of Data

English - September 30, 2018 04:50 - 45 minutes - 33.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
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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 […]

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:

Deep Sky Blue by Graphiqs Groove via FreeMusicArchive.org

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/