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In 2024, New Trends and Tools will Drive Productivity and Efficiency

By Kostis Kapelonis, Senior Developer Advocate, Codefresh

Trends and tools that deliver tangible productivity and efficiency improvements will continue to flourish in 2024, affecting developers, the community at large, and corporate boardrooms.

Among the innovations in tools and techniques impacting 2024, there are a couple that stand out. In 2024, we anticipate Argo CD backend + frontend plugins will allow organizations to completely transform their Argo CD dashboards. Argo CD is continuously adopted among Kubernetes-savvy organizations, but most companies are now at the customization level.

We anticipate further investments in technologies that help with developer experience. This could include a new Kubernetes abstraction (or tool) that will help developers create both Kubernetes and non-Kubernetes resources in a friendly way.

We also envision the creation of a new tool (or specification) that will describe how an application is both built AND deployed - it will likely combine the knowledge of CI and the knowledge of runtime information in a single spec.

Among trends to watch, developer portals will become the new hot item. Every tool will try to integrate with a developer portal or become one itself. Additionally, after an initial split between CI and CD, most organizations will realize the benefits of having a single view that covers both phases and will start moving in that direction.

Cost analysis and smart autoscaling will be more important than ever in 2024. Companies will audit their infrastructure and try to achieve the best cost/performance ratio.

Service meshes will likely become a commodity in 2024. The new battles will be fought in the gateway API level and the intelligence it offers in regard to routing and security.

We anticipate Timoni.sh will steal market share from Helm/Kustomize in 2024. And we will see several other templating tools such as kpt getting used for internal apps. Helm will slowly move to off-the-shelf software installations only and not internally developed applications.

Predicting the future is never easy, but it's easy to predict that 2024 will bring exciting changes. The evolution to greater productivity and efficiency will continue unabated.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Kostis Kapelonis is a Senior Developer Advocate at Codefresh. Formerly a Software Engineer, Kostis has years of experience containerizing applications, building CI/CD pipelines, and developing Java applications.