KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe -- Driven
by the trend of microservices creating complexity in code delivery and
every company becoming a technology company, the software development
community is under enormous pressure to deliver high-quality,
leading-edge, and scalable code to an insatiable market. Data from a new
survey by Codefresh exposes
the relentless pressure, with 32 percent reporting they were not using
any CI/CD tools at all, and about 60 percent agreeing that their
organizations are "not using the right amount of automation to enable
individual developers to increase velocity."
Details about the resulting code production bottlenecks are described in a new blog, "Why do engineering teams struggle to deploy faster? One word: automation." The survey results were announced today during KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe where Codefresh, 1st place winner of Microsoft's "Startups at Build: Attendee Choice Award," is exhibiting at Booth SE22.
"The
key competitive advantage for every company is the ability to quickly
and continuously deliver high quality, differentiated software," said
Dan Garfield, Chief Technology Evangelist for Codefresh. "But developers
are coding with one hand tied behind their backs, screaming for better
automation to help test, build, integrate and deliver code. Automation
is even more critical as developers try to navigate microservices,
Kubernetes, and the cloud."
The
CI/CD tool provider conducted the survey with software engineers,
operations managers, C-level executives, security engineers, DevOps
engineers/administrators, software engineering managers, QA engineers,
and software architects. The purpose was to learn more about how the
development community is using automation tools to improve individual
developer velocity and productivity, and to help engineers better
understand and respond to changes in production and staging.
The results were surprising:
- 63.6% said it takes more than two weeks for a commit to reach production with nearly a third only releasing quarterly.
- In contrast, 18.5% responded they deploy at least once daily.
- 39% reported that less than 10% of their company's processes are automated from Git commit to code running in production.
- 21.4% said they are not using cloud native architectures because they are overwhelmed by the prospect.
Codefresh's CI/CD platform provides
automation for building, testing and deploying modern applications
using Kubernetes, serverless and more. Development teams often see 24x
faster engineering cycles when using Codefresh. Earlier this month,
Codefresh announced new features that streamline CI/CD tool adoption to
dramatically decrease onboarding time. On June 4, Codefresh, Microsoft,
and Aqua are hosting Kubernetes DevSecOps Summit NYC to share
productivity best practices and more. To register, visit: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/kubernetes-devsecops-summit-nyc-tickets-55542540233