Industry Reports

organization. Even before the pandemic, agility was a core tenet of digital transformation as organizations and their leaders looked to make their businesses more responsive to rapidly changing customer needs and market demands. IT operations have responded accordingly, adopting DevOps practices to develop and deliver IT services more quickly and more efficiently – without sacrificing quality. Practices such as CI/CD have gained traction to help developers rapidly deliver code changes via an automated pipeline. A successful CI/CD pipeline requires high levels of automation and a flexible infrastructure. That's why more development teams are adopting IaC. While not the only option, companies are using it to speed up IT resource management and provisioning (more on that in the next section). The Wait For CI/CD Maturity CI/CD has evolved to the point where it is now widely accepted as the optimal approach for modern application development and deployment. Even though the concepts behind CI/CD have been around for decades, most organizations are still early on their journey - 76% of organizations say their CI/CD maturity level is intermediate. Only 4% consider their maturity level "expert" (with most of those being at the largest enterprises). Long Time Versus Real Time The original vision for CI/CD was for applications to be deployed "continuously and automatically." The reality is far from that promise. Only 5% of companies surveyed indicated they deploy applications multiple times daily. Most companies (85%) admit to deploying on a weekly or even monthly basis. So why the disconnect? 70% CI/CD pipelines remains less than instantaneous or continuous, with 70% saying that pipeline deployment on average takes days/weeks/or longer! But why are the pipelines and related infrastructure taking so long to deploy? 3 CloudBolt Industry Insights Report: The Truth About DevOps in the Hybrid Cloud Journey

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