By Dan Garfield, Chief Technology Evangelist, and Kostis Kapelonis, Developer Advocate of Codefresh

DevOps Trends for 2020

The DevOps community has a lot to look forward to in 2020, especially as Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) tools make great gains. CI/CD software is the backbone of the modern DevOps environment and bridges the gap between development and operations teams by automating build, test, and deployment of applications. At Codefresh, we predict the following eight DevOps trends will take root in 2020 and build:

• CI/CD pipeline creation will take a big leap forward and will provide more accessibility for DevOps to deploy and maintain these pipelines.
• Automation of infrastructure and application deployment will continue to collide, blurring the lines between operations and engineering.
• Helm 3, which gained major ground in 2019, will become the de-facto standard for Kubernetes deployments.
• Infrastructure as code will gain higher acceptance among all types of companies.
• More service meshes will appear making Canary deployments easier and more popular to perform.
• Kubernetes, which already has a presence in almost every company but is below ~10% of all workloads, will start making major ground, disrupting legacy workloads
• Security will become a bigger concern as more and more legacy workloads move to Kubernetes.
• Continuous Security will become the industry standard, bringing CI/CD and security into the development loop.
  

As 2020 rolls in, we anticipate increased interest in CI/CD as a means to automate the DevOps process and expect more investment in companies that are bringing innovative solutions to market. The DevOps community will be participating in a larger way to support open source with things like the $100M open source fund.

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About the Authors

Dan Garfield, Chief Technology Evangelist, Codefresh

Dan Garfield is a full-stack engineer, Google Developer Expert, and Chief Technology Evangelist at Codefresh. As a Kubernaut and CI/CD expert, Dan has built tools for advanced deployment methodologies with Kubernetes, Helm, and Istio. His code and talks have been featured at conferences including Kubecon, Dev Week, Google Cloud Summit, SwampUp, Redis Conf and many more.

Kostis Kapelonis, Developer Advocate, Codefresh

Kostis has more than 10 years of experience as a software developer, release engineer, and test analyst. He lives and breathes automation, good testing practices and stress-free deployments. He works as a developer advocate at Codefresh, the CI/CD company that ties Docker, Helm and Kubernetes in a single and cohesive platform.