The challenges of adopting DevOps
DevOps has become enormously popular as a means of speeding up tech projects, but a new study reveals the challenges that organizations face in adopting it.
The survey from sandbox specialist Quali finds the top barriers to DevOps success include the respondent's company culture (14 percent), challenges of testing automation (13 percent), legacy systems (12 percent), application complexity (11 percent), and budget constraints (11 percent).
Other barriers to implementing DevOps include limited IT skills, difficulty managing multiple environments, a lack of DevOps plans and tools, and a lack of executive buy-in. Complex applications also make the transition to cloud and DevOps challenging. Over 44 percent of applications in traditional environments were considered too complex for cloud.
No access to self-service infrastructure is a problem for 54 percent of respondents. This means more than half of respondents take a ticket-based approach to infrastructure delivery, impacting productivity and increasing time to market.
Of those surveyed, only 23 percent say infrastructure can be delivered in less than one day. Over 33 percent of respondents say it takes up to a month to deliver infrastructure with 26 percent saying it takes a month or more. Lack of access to the right infrastructure and environment slows application delivery.
The findings also show that the current DevOps tool ecosystem is quite fragmented with a mixture of open source and packaged offerings in use. The most popular tools cited by respondents include Jenkins (21 percent), Docker (16 percent), Puppet (14 percent) and Chef (13 percent).
On average, of those adopting hybrid clouds, only 23 percent of their apps on a hybrid cloud platform, with 65 percent of respondents running less than 24 applications in hybrid environments and only eight percent running more than 75 applications.
"We were pleasantly surprised by the response to our 2016 DevOps survey with over 2,000 respondents," says Shashi Kiran, Quali's Chief Marketing Officer. "The survey revealed interesting insights on adoption of cloud and DevOps, particularly in the context of hybrid clouds. What stood out most to us were some of the barriers around DevOps including culture, test automation and integration of legacy investments. These issues are consistent with patterns we're seeing every day. Quali is working closely with our customers and partners to solve these issues to increase cloud and DevOps adoption. We have expanded our 2017 Cloud and DevOps survey and look forward to gaining deeper insights."
You can find out more about the survey results on the Quali website.
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