For the Love of Data

E032 – 2018 State of DevOps Report

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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 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:

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                        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/
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