From the report, “For the past six years, Puppet has produced the annual State of DevOps Report1 and collected more than 27,000 responses from technical professionals around the world, making it the longest-running and most comprehensive study on the topic of DevOps today. One of the most common requests we’ve gotten over the years is for segmentation of the data by region, industry and company size. In this special report, we’ve segmented the 2017 State of DevOps survey data to dive deeper into trends and patterns we’re seeing in each of these segments.”

From the report, “The Puppet 2018 State of DevOps Report took a new tack this year, seeking prescriptive guidance for teams to follow. We designed our survey to learn how organizations progress through their DevOps journeys, and after analyzing the data, we found that the successful ones go through specific stages. Our research also revealed a set of core practices — we call them “foundational practices” — that are critical to success throughout the entire DevOps evolution. In this paper, we’ll take you through an in-depth description of these foundational practices, and offer you our advice for how to begin instituting them in the way that makes most sense for your organization, based on our findings.”

From the report, “Much like DevOps itself, pervasive automation is equal parts process, tooling, and culture. Taking the journey represents a collective commitment by the entire organization, one where the goal is realizing the competitive advantage offered by software automation. Leadership builds the strategy, managers plan how to get there, and then it’s up to the teams to sustain an ongoing effort. New challenges will arise as new technologies are released: cloud services, containers, and server-less computing for example. Automating processes to adapt to tomorrow’s technology means staying on the path toward pervasive automation. Then, deliver the business value and agility it promises. While it’s impossible to get to an “absolutely” automated state, this journey keeps you as close as possible by continuously leveraging the latest DevOps and automation practices across your organization.”

From the report, “This year we designed our DevOps survey to reveal what successful organizations actually do as they progress on their DevOps journeys. We discovered that they experience five distinct stages of DevOps evolution, which we have shared in full detail in our 2018 State of DevOps Report. This CIO guide digests our research into a report that’s just for you. We want to help you quickly understand what successful organizations do at each stage of DevOps evolution; which practices must be established at each stage (we call these the defining practices); and how you can best support your team throughout its DevOps journey to assure continuing progress and success.”

From the report, “It’s that time of year again. We’ve conducted and compiled the results of our State of DevOps survey to illustrate how your job, salary, and industry compare to other professionals in your field. This is our fifth annual DevOps salary report, and each year we learn more about how DevOps practices impact organizations globally and how the people who produce those results and how they’re compensated. This report examines a myriad of factors impacting salary levels, which include region, role, demographics, industry, and size of organization. We had over 3,000 technology professionals from around the world respond to our survey. As before, we broke down the data by geographic region — but this time with an international focus on the UK, Asia, and Europe.”

The 2018 State of DevOps Report breaks new ground in an understanding of the DevOps evolutionary journey. They have identified the five distinct stages of DevOps evolution, and the critical practices at each stage that help you achieve success and progress to the next phase of your journey.

This paper seeks to provide high level and tactical findings that are intended to help you advance the progress of your own DevOps Journey. Some key findings in this report are; the beneficial effects of DevOps go beyond financial results, automation is a key differentiator for organizations, and they delve deep into how an application’s architecture can affect an organization’s ability to develop and deliver software.

The fifth annual State of DevOps Report confirms and highlights the fact that achieving higher IT and organizational performance is a team effort spanning development and operations — and it’s an investment that can deliver powerful returns.