E032 – 2018 State of DevOps Report

Posted on by Rob Furr
  • 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?

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