DevOps Success: A Look at Performance by Region and Industry

Since Puppet published its first State of DevOps Report in 2012, we’ve learned a lot about how IT is implementing DevOps practices and the resulting impact to businesses. After collecting nearly 30,000 responses from around the world, we wondered: Where are trends and patterns emerging in these segments? Our first-ever State of DevOps: Market Segmentation Report makes it easier to benchmark your organization against other companies in your peer group. Automation Enables DevOps Not surprisingly, we found that most organizations began their DevOps journeys with their biggest pain points. Pain often incites organizational change, and it’s no different for software development. And it’s here that we found that automation is one of the most common enablers of DevOps. Instead of adopting lean practices or visualization of metrics, organizations most commonly turned to automation for some portion of their software development lifecycle. Continuous integration, deployment automation, and infrastructure automation were very common starting points for DevOps.