Will COVID-19 Be the End of On-Prem Environments?
September 01, 2020

COVID-19 has had a massive effect on DevOps, leading to large-scale migrations away from on-premises environments, according to the State of DevOps survey conducted by Codefresh.

At the same time, DevOps automation continues to expand in scope and complexity with more and more processes becoming automated, and more involved technologies like Kubernetes continuing to gain strong traction. While it has improved some year-over-year, most organizations are still struggling with implementing and maintaining automation, the survey indicates.

Key takeaways from the survey include:

COVID-19 leading many to reconsider on-prem infrastructure strategy

The survey asked how COVID-19 has affected DevOps professional's plans to reconsider their on-prem infrastructure strategy, with somewhat surprising results. 58% of respondents saying that due to the pandemic, they are planning on moving some infrastructure to the cloud with 17% of respondents planning to move their entire stack to the cloud.

In total, about 75% of respondents are moving at least part of their infrastructure to the cloud as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, representing a dramatic shift in strategy and further adoption towards the cloud.

DevOps budgets rising in 2020

74% of respondents are expecting an increase and more than half are expecting their budgets to increase by 25% or more.

Organizations are continuing to invest heavily in their DevOps budgets as the effect of DevOps on developer velocity and site reliability continues to be better understood.

Companies struggling with commit-to-production automation

Most companies are still struggling with commit-to-production automation (although it's getting better). Automation proves to be elusive, as less than 5% of respondents claimed that all of their company's DevOps processes are automated from Git commit to code running in production.

52% of respondents have less than 50% of their organization's DevOps process automated from Git commit to production. This is down from last year's survey, where 66% of respondents had less than 50% of their processes automated. This represents the continued trend away from manual processes as organizations build out their DevOps automation.

Kubernetes building momentum

Kubernetes continues to build momentum, with most (73%) of respondents thinking it will be used on more than half of new projects by the end of 2020.

In the 2019 State of DevOps survey, 54% of respondents said that Kubernetes would be used in more than half of all projects by the end of the year. Clearly, Kubernetes adoption is continuing to accelerate.

75% of respondents said that they have either already adopted Kubernetes or are planning to adopt Kubernetes soon.

DevOps engineers spending time just fixing bugs

67% of respondents said that they spend 25% or more of their time fixing bugs in their automated systems, while 35% of respondents spend 50% or more of their time fixing bugs in their automated systems.

This highlights the importance of choosing a well-architected DevOps automation stack, as the platform you use can have a massive impact on the amount of time lost to bug fixing.

Share this

Industry News

October 02, 2023

Spectro Cloud announced Palette EdgeAI to simplify how organizations deploy and manage AI workloads at scale across simple to complex edge locations, such as retail, healthcare, industrial automation, oil and gas, automotive/connected cars, and more.

September 28, 2023

Kong announced Kong Konnect Dedicated Cloud Gateways, the simplest and most cost-effective way to run Kong Gateways in the cloud fully managed as a service and on enterprise dedicated infrastructure.

September 28, 2023

Sisense unveiled the public preview of Compose SDK for Fusion.

September 28, 2023

Cloudflare announced Hyperdrive to make every local database global. Now developers can easily build globally distributed applications on Cloudflare Workers, the serverless developer platform used by over one million developers, without being constrained by their existing infrastructure.

September 27, 2023

Kong announced full support for Kong Mesh in Konnect, making Kong Konnect an API lifecycle management platform with built-in support for Kong Gateway Enterprise, Kong Ingress Controller and Kong Mesh via a SaaS control plane.

September 27, 2023

Vultr announced the launch of the Vultr GPU Stack and Container Registry to enable global enterprises and digital startups alike to build, test and operationalize artificial intelligence (AI) models at scale — across any region on the globe. \

September 27, 2023

Salt Security expanded its partnership with CrowdStrike by integrating the Salt Security API Protection Platform with the CrowdStrike Falcon® Platform.

September 26, 2023

Progress announced a partnership with Software Improvement Group (SIG), an independent technology and advisory firm for software quality, security and improvement, to help ensure the long-term maintainability and modernization of business-critical applications built on the Progress® OpenEdge® platform.

September 26, 2023

Solace announced a new version of its Solace Event Portal solution that gives organizations with Apache Kafka deployments better visibility into, and control over, their Kafka event streams, brokers and associated assets.

September 26, 2023

Reply launched a proprietary framework for generative AI-based software development, KICODE Reply.

September 26, 2023

Harness announced the industry-wide Engineering Excellence Collective™, an engineering leadership community.

September 25, 2023

Harness announced four new product modules on the Harness platform.

September 25, 2023

Sylabs announced the release of SingularityCE 4.0.

September 25, 2023

Timescale announced the launch of Timescale Vector, enabling developers to build production AI applications at scale with PostgreSQL.