Industry executives and experts share their predictions for 2019. Read them in this 11th annual VMblog.com series exclusive.
Contributed by Michael Stahnke, director of engineering at Puppet
Trends That Will Shape DevOps in 2019
2018 was an exciting year for the world of DevOps as we saw many
developments across the industry, with more companies realizing the business
value of a strong DevOps culture and pervasive automation. 2019 will be no
different, as containers continue to be the modus operandi and IT leaders look
to for new ways to bring DevOps to the fore of their companies. Here are some
of the top predictions and trends that will shape DevOps in 2019.
Tradeoffs for microservices
2019 will be the year we find out about tradeoffs for
microservices in a big way. We'll see a major company pulling back on
microservices saying that managing hundreds of small services is more difficult
than fewer. The gains for development are offset by operational costs,
availability planning and more. It won't be widespread, but we will see a small
rise in the anti-microservices movement in 2019.
This is likely true for Kubernetes as well. While Kubernetes has
all sorts of hype, companies choosing to go forward on it for hype along may
experience some failure point and back away, and, they will share it publicly.
Unifying the management of operational experiences
To combat the challenges of managing many microservices with all
sorts of individual tools, we'll continue to see a slew of vendors try to unify
the management of operational experiences. These vendors will provide
abstractions over disparate tooling to improve the management capabilities in
this new world.
Measurement and ROI indicators
IT leaders will also realize they now have two major investments
to consider in 2019: the container platform with a few applications (but the
one they hope everything should be moving to) and everything that
currently runs the business and makes money. They'll begin asking for better
measurement and ROI indicators on new investments, as well as new tools to
validate these directional changes.
Mobile experience for cloud and infrastructure management
The mobile experience for
cloud and infrastructure management will increase dramatically in 2019. Right
now, few apps relating to infrastructure have a meaningful way to perform
read-write actions on mobile devices. That will change as internal employees
expect things to work more like consumer software.
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About the Author
Michael Stahnke is director of engineering at Puppet. He's held
a few roles and been a part of the company growing from 35 to 520+ employees.
While staying near the domains of release engineering, operations, and
community, he's been in leadership for most of the last decade. His interests
are building teams, mentoring team members, driving change with customers, and
playing with his son. He came to Puppet from Caterpillar, Inc. where he was an
infrastructure architect, infrastructure team lead, and open source evangelist.
Michael also helped get the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL)
repository launched in 2005, authored Pro OpenSSH (Apress, 2005), and writes
with some frequency about technology and computers.