AI-fueled attacks and hyperconnected IT environments have made threat exposure one of the most urgent cybersecurity challenges facing enterprises today. In response, Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd.(link is external) announced a definitive agreement to acquire Veriti Cybersecurity, the first fully automated, multi-vendor pre-emptive threat exposure and mitigation platform.
As part of DEVOPSdigest's annual list of DevOps predictions, industry experts — from analysts and consultants to the top vendors — offer thoughtful, insightful, and often controversial predictions on how DevOps and development technologies will evolve in 2025. Part 2 covers more predictions about software development.
CLOUD-NATIVE
Cloud-native platforms will become the standard for deploying new digital workloads. By 2025, most of the new digital workloads will be deployed on cloud-native platforms, offering greater scalability, flexibility, and efficiency.
Svetlin Nikolaev
Senior Director, DX UX & Emerging Products, Progress(link is external)
WEBASSEMBLY
In 2025, DevOps will increasingly focus on cloud-native and serverless technologies, prioritizing performance, portability, security, low latency, scalability, and interoperability. WebAssembly is uniquely suited to these needs, offering near-native execution speeds and secure, cross-platform compatibility across cloud and edge. With support for multi-language interoperability and popular orchestration platforms, WebAssembly can deliver low-latency, scalable serverless functions for event-driven, distributed applications. Its evolving sandboxed architecture and interoperability will make it a foundational technology for the next era of serverless DevOps.
David Rant
Engineering Lead, Gearset(link is external)
Decentralized Architectures
Decentralized protocols like Mastodon highlight a growing trend toward federated solutions that emphasize autonomy and adaptability. Enterprises can anticipate similar developments in AI training and inference, cryptocurrency, and event-driven architecture.
Robert Elwell
VP of Engineering, MacStadium(link is external)
SELF-SUSTAINING DEV ENVIRONMENT
By 2025, engineers will shift their focus from low-level implementation tasks such as writing HCL configurations and YAML pipelines to higher-value activities in the areas of design, architecture, and performance-driven deployments. As infrastructure becomes increasingly as ephemeral as Docker containers, the entire engineering stack from infrastructure to code deployment will evolve from a "delicate" ecosystem requiring constant management to a more self-sustaining environment. This transformation will enable engineers to focus on the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) of value-driven workloads versus getting involved in cluster management, infrastructure deployment and day-zero operations. The result will be increased productivity and innovation in line with market demands and technological advancements.
Ben Ghazi
Co-Founder, Codiac(link is external)
INFRASTRUCTURE AS CODE
In 2024, only 13% of organizations reported achieving IaC Maturity in Stacked Up: The IaC Maturity Report. IaC is an important tool that organizations need to ensure cloud native environments can scale and remain agile. In 2025, we will see more companies investigate infrastructure automation and management tools that can help them improve on their existing IaC investments. Infrastructure from Code will become a viable option for platform engineers as they seek to improve the developer experience and velocity organizations require.
In 2024, 97% of respondents in Stacked Up: The IaC Maturity Report reported difficulties with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) technologies, in part due to challenges with ensuring consistency both during IaC creation and maintenance. In 2025, we'll see organizations invest in infrastructure management and automation to overcome these IaC challenges. New tools that automatically enforce best practices for consistency, security, and scalability will make IaC faster and more streamlined, and reduce developers' cognitive load.
Sachin Aggarwal
Co-Founder and CEO, Stackgen(link is external)
INFRASTRUCTURE FROM CODE
In 2024, nearly half of developers surveyed in Stacked Up: The IaC Maturity Report viewed IaC as a necessary evil required to deploy the applications they were hired to design and deliver. To improve the developer experience, many organizations will turn to Infrastructure from Code (IfC) in 2025 to allow developers to focus on the application, not the infrastructure.
Sachin Aggarwal
Co-Founder and CEO, Stackgen(link is external)
SIMPLIFIED STATE MANAGEMENT
Developers will embrace simplified state management: In 2025, developers will seek alternatives to event-driven architectures as the complexities of fragmented workflows and debugging challenges continue to grow. Teams will adopt frameworks that centralize business logic and automate state management, which will reduce operational overhead while improving reliability and scalability. This shift towards durable execution will streamline the development of distributed systems and empower teams to focus on delivering value while ensuring robust and maintainable architectures.
Drew Gorton
Senior Director of Developer Relations, Temporal(link is external)
KUBERNETES
In 2025 Kubernetes will remain the leading platform for compute workloads, with significant growth driven by GenAI workloads. As GenAI usage continues to grow, both in terms of scale and capabilities, companies will increasingly rely on Kubernetes for scalable infrastructure, solidifying its role as the go-to platform for running compute and GPU workloads, regardless of the industry. Simultaneously, enterprises will continue migrating workloads from on-prem to the cloud, shifting away from legacy systems and embracing modern architectures to reduce maintenance costs. This shift, combined with GenAI adoption for enhanced automation will enable improved system utilization, cost reductions, faster deployments, and integration of new technologies, making Kubernetes even more effective for ML development, scaling, and delivery of applications.
Aviram Levy
Tech Evangelist, Zesty(link is external)
CENTRALIZED KUBERNETES MANAGEMENT
As more mission critical applications are moving to Kubernetes, organizations will move towards centrally managing Kubernetes, rather than allowing developers to manage their own, to increase security and lower costs.
Tobi Knaup
VP, GM of Cloud Native, Nutanix(link is external)
CLOUD AGNOSTICISM
Cloud-Agnoticism Gains Momentum: Organizations are adopting hybrid and multi-cloud strategies to reduce vendor dependence, driving demand for "run anywhere" solutions like Kubernetes.
Robert Elwell
VP of Engineering, MacStadium(link is external)
VOICE INTERFACES
Voice is on the rise. Developers, often early adopters, are increasingly writing code through voice interfaces. Thanks to advancements in AI, voice recognition has improved dramatically, positioning it for mainstream adoption by 2025.
Ryan Janssen
CEO, Zenlytic(link is external)
OUTSOURCING DEVELOPMENT
Reduced barriers to onboarding will lead enterprises to outsource more software development roles: In 2025 we'll see enterprises shift back to outsourcing more software development roles to reduce the strain on internal teams and alleviate skills shortages, spurred on by technologies that reduce barriers to onboarding. For example, enterprises may decide to enlist an IT services provider with specialist data science skills to support the development of new AI use cases. This will require less time and fewer resources than re-skilling existing developer talent, or hiring full time data scientists whose skills may not be needed in the long term.
Outsourcing development roles has previously been more difficult due to lengthy onboarding processes. Typically, outsourced staff would spend months gaining access to tools and data, understanding workflows, and getting to grips with an organization's existing code base. In 2025, advances in GenAI, Cloud Development Environments (CDEs), and Internal Developer Portals (IDPs) will enable both new hires and outsourced staff to get up to speed much faster, so they can deliver value from day one.
Nick Durkin
Field CTO, Harness(link is external)
Industry News
LambdaTest announced the launch of its Automation MCP Server, a solution designed to simplify and accelerate the process of triaging test failures.
DefectDojo announced the launch of their next-gen Security Operations Center (SOC) capabilities for DefectDojo Pro, which provides both SOC and AppSec professionals a unified platform for noise reduction and prioritization of SOC alerts and AppSec findings.
Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd.(link is external) has been recognized on Newsweek’s 2025 list of America’s Best Cybersecurity Companies(link is external).
Red Hat announced enhanced features to manage Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
StackHawk has taken on $12 Million in additional funding from Sapphire and Costanoa Ventures to help security teams keep up with the pace of AI-driven development.
Red Hat announced jointly-engineered, integrated and supported images for Red Hat Enterprise Linux across Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure.
Komodor announced the integration of the Komodor platform with Internal Developer Portals (IDPs), starting with built-in support for Backstage and Port.
Operant AI announced Woodpecker, an open-source, automated red teaming engine, that will make advanced security testing accessible to organizations of all sizes.
As part of Summer '25 Edition, Shopify is rolling out new tools and features designed specifically for developers.
Lenses.io announced the release of a suite of AI agents that can radically improve developer productivity.
Google unveiled a significant wave of advancements designed to supercharge how developers build and scale AI applications – from early-stage experimentation right through to large-scale deployment.
Red Hat announced Red Hat Advanced Developer Suite, a new addition to Red Hat OpenShift, the hybrid cloud application platform powered by Kubernetes, designed to improve developer productivity and application security with enhancements to speed the adoption of Red Hat AI technologies.
Perforce Software announced Perforce Intelligence, a blueprint to embed AI across its product lines and connect its AI with platforms and tools across the DevOps lifecycle.
CloudBees announced CloudBees Unify, a strategic leap forward in how enterprises manage software delivery at scale, shifting from offering standalone DevOps tools to delivering a comprehensive, modular solution for today’s most complex, hybrid software environments.