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CloudBolt Industry Insights Report:
The Truth About DevOps in the Hybrid Cloud Journey
their organizations. They answered a series of 17 questions. Here are some of the most
informative insights:
Despite all the tools, process improvements, and investments made, only 4% of
companies consider themselves experts in CI/CD.
While the promise of CI/CD is to enable applications to be deployed multiple times a
day, only 5% of companies are actually doing that – the time to deploy a single CI/CD
pipeline for 69% of respondents is days or weeks.
While 97% agree that being able to test CI/CD infrastructure integrity is vital, and 85%
say that they do in fact perform infrastructure testing, only 11% consider their CI/CD
infrastructure very reliable.
Within IaC, there's a lot of interest in Terraform. The truth, however, is that very few
companies are using it to actually deploy a majority of their infrastructure (only 2%
deploy 75% or more of their infrastructure using Terraform).
Furthermore, only 5% said they were "very satisfied" with using Terraform. Top
challenges expressed include difficulty in on-prem infrastructure deployments, lack of
day-2 management for deployed resources, and governance around its usage.
Most companies that use Terraform also must augment it with a Cloud Management
Platform (CMP) and other tools to better manage the lifecycle of their cloud
infrastructure.
90% of respondents say Terraform drives up the need for custom integrations with
other tools and technologies.
Now that we have the headlines out of the way, let's dig into the data.
If the last year and a half has proved anything, it's that agility is a critical trait of any modern
Continuous Integration /
Continuous Delivery:
The Operative Word Is Continuous
