GitHub research about DevOps industry in 2021

1. 4300 respondents
Developers, operations
and security pros in their
own words
DevSecOps
landscape

2. In 2020 only 27% of teams described
their process as DevOps or DevSecOps.
In 2021 the number of teams increased
to 35.9%, followed closely by Agile/Scrum
at 31.78%.
Overview

3. The trouble with testing
Respondents pointed to testing as the primary
reason for release delays.
Full test automation
No test automation/ just starting to think about it
Haven’t shifted testing far enough left
Developers test some of their own code
Half-way there
Automated testing happens as code is written
25%
28%
34%
32%
25%
9%

4. The top three reasons to choose DevOps
Code quality
Faster time to market,
Security
Other benefits:
Improved communication/collaboration
Happier developers
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5. In 2020 75% of respondents told they don’t use low
code/no tools; in 2021 41% use them, while 59% do not.
Low code/no code
development tools
Has your organization adopted microservices?
37%
28%
34%
1%
Partially
No
Yes
Other

6. Developers
Almost 60% of devs are releasing code 2x faster,
thanks to DevOps
What changes have you made to your software development process?
Source code management
Continuous integration
Continuous delivery
DevOps platform
Automated testing
Toolchain integration
Requirements Management
Planning tools/methodology
Automated security testing/shift left security
Cloud Native
Release Orchestration
Serverless
Other
21.02%
17.74%
13.59%
11.65%
10.38%
5.29%
2.89%
4.12%
2.7%
3.95%
2.38%
3.52%
0.6%

7. So many tools
Early 50% of ops pros said their teams use between two
and five monitoring tools, while 28% don’t use
any monitoring tools at all.
Elasticsearch
37.5% in 2020 28% in 2021
Other
7.52% in 2020 NA in 2021
Splunk
20.58% in 2021
13.64% in 2020
Datalog
11.71% in 2020 19.3% in 2021
None
12.44% in 2020 11.92% in 2021
Sumologic
2.95% in 2020 6.83% in 2021
Logz.io
3.5% in 2020 5.99% in 2021
Which tools do you use to view/capture logs?

8. Security
Over 50% of security pros report
their devs scan containers,
run dependency scans, and do license
compliance checks.
53% of developers run SAST scans
(a dramatic jump from less than 40%
in 2020) and 44% run DAST scans
(up a lot from 27% in 2020).

9. Automation is real
Software development lifecycle
completely or mostly automated
It is just beginning
Partially automated
No automation at all
55%
27%
11%
6%
In 2020, just 8% of teams claimed full automation –
nearly 19% said it this year.

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