Industry Reports

6 CloudBolt Industry Insights Report: The Truth About DevOps in the Hybrid Cloud Journey FOMO Factor It's obvious that Terraform has the industry's attention – and no one wants to miss out on a potentially revolutionary trend. Fully 88% of respondents indicate that they are either using or considering using Terraform. That's massive market penetration in relatively short order. And companies are using Terraform to deploy infrastructure across IT (66%), Engineers (67%), and DevOps (68%) with the majority using Terraform Cloud (79%) for their initiatives and 58% using open source Terraform. But what's really going on underneath the exuberance? 88% Can't Get No Satisfaction One would think with people flocking to Terraform, there would be a high degree of satisfaction with how it delivers IaC. To the contrary, only 5% are truly satisfied. 75% are only 'Somewhat Satisfied'. There are still significant issues that need to be addressed. 62% of respondents indicate that deployment of on-premises infrastructure via Terraform is challenging, especially in meeting the need to integrate to multiple providers (e.g., for IP address management, load balancing, etc.) and maintain multiple Terraform files. Moreover, 90% state Terraform requires more custom-coded integrations to other critical tools and systems to work properly. 62% 5% In addition, respondents mentioned broad governance-related challenges. For instance, 58% cite a lack of cost visibility into infrastructure deployed by Terraform as a key shortcoming. 53% call out the lack of visibility of who is using Terraform, while 42% of respondents say that they have a fear of ungoverned Terraform plans being executed by other teams. Finally, skillsets are another challenge, with 39% pointing out they lack the specific and necessary Terraform expertise. 58%

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