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Codefresh Predicts GitOps Will Gain Major Acceptance in 2021
By Kostis Kapelonis, Developer Advocate, Codefresh
Codefresh believes 2021 will be the year that GitOps will gain major acceptance. Instead of being a buzzword, GitOps will be documented as a standard. GitOps 2.0 in particular will specify several gaps in existing GitOps tools such as:
- Secret management
- Environment promotions
- Dynamic resources
- Observability
More best practices around GitOps will emerge, as organizations realize the benefits of using Git as the central source of truth for developers.
More specific predictions from Codefresh include:
- Kubernetes adoption which has gone very wide will begin to go very deep within organizations as the benefits of being cloud-native become measurable.
- The line between app deployments and infrastructure management will continue to erode.
- 2021 will be the year of low code tools, especially from the business side as a way to define requirements that are later refined in a more “traditional” way.
- Test automation will focus on machine learning simulations of “real” users.
- Helm will see a resurgence as it escapes the association with Tiller.
- Online development on the browser will become the norm (GitHub spaces, gitpod, etc.)
- The tools for developer experience in Kubernetes (Tilt, Okteto, Skaffold, Garden) will consolidate and a true winner will appear.
- A higher-level abstraction over Kubernetes will start gaining popularity.
- The service mesh market will be disrupted by https://smi-spec.io/.
- The Internet of Things (IoT) will continue growing at a ridiculous speed.
The same prediction for the last 10 years applies to the next 10 as well – whomever ships the most code/features will win. Companies that don’t ship features fast will face challenges with their existing customers.
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About the Author
Kostis Kapelonis is a Developer Advocate at Codefresh, the first cloud-native DevOps automation platform. Formerly a Software Engineer, Kostis has years of experience containerizing applications, building CI/CD pipelines, and developing Java applications.
