DevOps is unlike any other technology that just serves the purpose intended for!
As an all-round solution for the IT industry, DevOps brought in fresh collaboration among different teams creating an end-to-end connection across the process chain.
This style of DevOps functioning made two entirely-different teams- Development and Operations- work as a single unit for a productive output that is faster and qualitative than before.
“2018 has been a special journey for the IT industry, majorly because of the increasing DevOps implementation and growing inclination towards DevOps adoption.”
Now, the time has come to peep into 2023! Experts believe that DevOps will continue to have a good time even in 2023, in fact a sharper rise because of new technology additions.
Top 10 Predictions for DevOps Success in 2023
1) Rise in AI, Data Science Boost
Rise in Artificial Intelligence (AI) adoption is going to change the game altogether. Growing number of AI-driven applications is going to move data science teams to look for DevOps practices in their workflows. DevOps methodology is expected to be their most-sought option in dealing with automated pipelines, managing and testing multiple deployed models in the production chain.
This is going to increase further as data science and development teams move closer for increased efficiency in development, deployment and maintaining AI & ML-driven applications to meet growing enterprise demands.
2) Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Push
Growing shift of on-premises infrastructure model to Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) model among firms is going to be another driving factor for DevOps trend in 2023. With firms opting IaaS and cloud-based services as a means to cost-savings, integration between services is going to play a greater role as majority of critical infrastructure tasks will then be handled through software.
This is where DevOps steps in handling integration between services, bringing in more flexibility. The combination of configuration management and container technologies is going to play a key role in automating infrastructure management, reflecting a change in the role of the administrator from management to strategic deployment.
3) Focus on Functions-as-a-Service (FaaS)
Efforts in dealing with containerized workloads led to the need for streamlining such capabilities in today’s DevOps environment. And, DevOps professionals found Functions-as-a-Service (FaaS) as a means to do so. The focus on FaaS is going to increase in 2023 as more technology professionals find it comfortable in using containers in the production stage. And, DevOps professionals are going to have a key role here in determining use cases involving FaaS and serverless computing in their environments.
4) Demand for Continuous Delivery
Increasing adoption of multi-cloud architecture is going to give rise to the continuous delivery approach and use of container-related technologies (such as Docker and Kubernetes) across large enterprises. Continuous deployment is going to see a rise in demand over the chain of Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) with companies inclining for new infrastructure approaches for managing services and software deployment. Besides, increasing adoption of process mining technologies is going to lead to the improvement of CI/CD workflows across DevOps teams.
5) Seamless Security Across Process Chain
Growing security breaches left a message that supposed threats can occur at any stage of the software lifecycle. This needs security approach beyond just scanning and fixing issues. For this, experts recommend security integration across the software development lifecycle to check all possible threats. This means a collaboration between two different teams i.e. development and security.
Allowing seamless security integration, often referred to as DevSecOps, right at the initial stages of application development, DevOps enables development teams to generate secure code at a faster rate. Integration at the initial stages helps further in testing phase supporting the developer workflow throughout the cycle. This will save time and will be more efficient unlike security testing at the end and increases the chances of delivering error-free code.
6) Database Development
One of the 2018 DevOps surveys has shown that database development can be a key high driving factor for DevOps with regard to performance. The survey found that majority of the teams engaged in continuous delivery used version control for database-related changes, dealing with them in the same way as applications. It found that integrating database development to software delivery increases the performance of the cycle.
On the other side, audit trial and automation support that DevOps offers were also proved to be helpful in safeguarding personally-identifiable information across the database development process.
7) Container Orchestration
The concept of containers and container orchestration technologies are currently high on demand in the companies quest for successful implementation of CI/CD cycles. As a result, container orchestration tools such as Docket, Hibernates, etc. are likely to be the replacement for configuration management tools such as Chef, Ansible, etc. in 2023. Container orchestration is being looked at as an effective means to dealing with complexities associated with infrastructure.
This is going to be the next run for DevOps engineers as many of the traditional DevOps functions are likely to be replaced by container orchestration software!
8) Big Data
While full-fledged predictive analytics is the most-happening and the next big thing in the IT industry, the trend is going to reach a new level with Big Data and DevOps collaboration. DevOps gaining expertise in automating the processes and configurations add to the trend.
9) Growing Digital Inclination
The digital race happens to be one of the top priorities for CEOs of IT companies. Surveys show a six-fold rise in firms’ digital investment from 2.1% in 2012 to 13.4% by 2018. Besides, starting a company with less investment is also a contributing factor, thanks to the digital revolution that made things easier to work out.
10) Shift-left Policy
Spotting issues at the end is the old trend. The DevOps trend changed the way by pitching for the integration of key principles at the initial stages itself. Offering end-to-end automation, DevOps orchestration tools made traceability of issues at a right time across the process chain. Activities that were performed at the last stages earlier are now moving to the left of the pipeline to travel along the software process chain. The shift-level policy is going to minimize issues at the later stage of development minimizing the chances of failure and maximizing the scope for early recovery in case of any.
In a nutshell, key trends in DevOps continue to be:
- DevOps as a new Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) methodology
- High rise in the development of many DevOps/automation tools
- DevOps Engineers continue to be the highest-paid IT professionals in the current market
- Ops professionals inclining to implement their DevOps knowledge in production for automation and testing operations
- Growing demand for automation and testing
Demand for the technology directly means the demand for providers who offer the related services. So, demand for DevOps adoption is going to directly reflect in the demand for DevOps consulting services, DevOps Engineers, and other related stakeholders.
Is 2023 also going to be a DevOps year? Let’s see…
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