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DevOps is Popular, Yet the Majority of IT Professionals Suggest it Needs Improvement
Adopting the DevOps methodology to advance in a job centred on technology is critical because it elevates collaboration and automation to a new level.

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Apac CIOOutlook | Monday, November 28, 2022
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New survey reveals there's still much work to be done with DevOps since it involves a lot of players across the enterprise.
FREMONT, CA: Adopting the DevOps methodology to advance in a job centred on technology is critical because it elevates collaboration and automation to a new level. Nevertheless, despite years of work and hype, most DevOps practitioners are dissatisfied with the state of DevOps in their organisations.
DevOps is a crucial professional path in and of itself. There are currently more than 7,000 available openings for DevOps engineers and specialists, according to a recent look at the Dice technology jobs listing. Companies are looking for people with these skills, including the ability to drive automation and containerisation strategies and collaborate with product owners, developers, cloud engineers, DevOps engineers, and operations to plan, design, test, and deliver pipelines and infrastructure using continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) model.
DevOps encompasses all aspects of the development pipeline and goes beyond the fundamental responsibilities of DevOps engineers. DevOps practitioners must be everywhere, in some capacity. Cloud services and automation improve agile computing.
There is still much work to be done, and because it involves many participants from different parts of the organisation, it raises cultural concerns. And that's when things start to get interesting. Businesses could utilise skills that can assist in resolving ongoing organisational difficulties.
To put it another way, anything having to do with the installation or flow of DevOps requires both technical and business acumen.
A recent poll by Progress Software of 600 IT managers and professionals reveals that those in charge of software design and deployment are dissatisfied with DevOps' advancement. A whopping 73 per cent of respondents acknowledge that more could be done to advance DevOps procedures. DevOps and its expanded variant, DevSecOps, which addresses security from the outset of the flow of software between developers and operations teams, have been in many people's thoughts for years, yet they are still difficult for software businesses to implement.
At least 76 per cent of those surveyed acknowledge the need to manage these processes more strategically, while 17 per cent still witness themselves as in the exploratory and proof-of-concept stages.
The main motivation for most DevOps and DevSecOps implementations is security. However, just 30 per cent of respondents are confident in the degree of security and development collaboration. 86 per cent of respondents reported difficulties with their present security strategies, and 51 per cent acknowledge that they aren't entirely sure where security fits into the wider picture.
More than seven in ten respondents, or 71 per cent, concur that the main obstacle to DevOps success is culture. Nevertheless, corporate culture transformation frequently falls outside the purview of IT managers and specialists. Only 16 per cent of companies are in a situation where they can prioritise culture as an area to improve to advance with more automation and collaboration.