DevOps 2021 — This is a round-up article where we collected opinions from 15 DevOps experts on what they think will be a trend in 2021 with context to DevOps.
Join the DZone community and get the full member experience. DevOps has come a long way, and there is no doubt it will continue to shine this year. Since many companies are looking for best practices around their digital transformation, it’s important to see where leaders think the industry is going. In that sense, the following article is a collection of responses from the DevOps leaders on DevOps trends to watch for in 2021. Let’s see what each one of them has to say about DevOps in the year to come. 1. Migrating to microservice will become a must — Lead DevOps Engineer at Wipro Limited “Migrating from monolithic to microservice and containerized architecture will be a must for all the company for their Digital Transformation journey. It’s not going to be a choice or option anymore. This is where the adoption of Kubernetes will be on rise and when organizations will adopt multi-cloud, Terraform will be the ultimate choice to automate Infrastructure.” — Sachidananda Pattnaik, Lead DevOps Engineer at Wipro Limited 2. Hybrid will become the deployment norm — VP of Developer Relations at JFrog “2020 accelerated remote work, expedited the migration to cloud, and turned DevOps from a best practice to an essential part of every business. As we move into 2021 the industry will embrace hybrid on multiple facets. First, businesses will fully embrace hybrid workforces that combine the advantages of remote work and on-site team collaboration. Second, business models will become hybrid, such as conferences that merge virtual scale with local networking. Finally, hybrid will become the deployment norm as companies modernize their stack to take advantage of cloud-native technologies, but realize that not everything can move off-prem. The winners in 2021 will be companies who embrace hybrid across their business, model, and products.” — Stephen Chin, VP of Developer Relations at JFrog 3. DataOps will boom — Senior DevOps Engineer at Rakuten “DataOps will definitely boom in 2021, and COVID might play a role in it. Due to COVID and WFH situation, consumption of digital content is skyrocket high which demands a new level of automation for self-scaling and self-healing systems to meet the growth and demand. So far, DevOps are setting up systems for Logging, Monitoring, and Alerting only (ELK/EFK Stacks, Prometheus/Grafana/Alertmanager, and so on) Now, it is high time for DevOps to step up and use available data and metrics to generate valuable insights, learn and apply machine learning models to predict incidents or outages, develop automation which learns itself from the data and forecast capacity to improve budget planning. Many have already started calling MLOps/AIOps to this part.” — Nirav Chotai, Senior DevOps Engineer at Rakuten 4. Resilience testing will become mainstream — Head of Product at Neotys “The intersection between Observability, Performance Testing, and Resilience Testing will become mainstream from my point of view. With the recent Ops issues of WW leaders such as AWS and Google, and digital transformation accelerating in all verticals, the market will come to realize that infinite scalability provided by public or private cloud flavors is not enough.” — Patrick Wolf, Head of Product at Neotys 5. GitOps will become a norm — Principal Architect at Macy’s “A “you build it, you own it” development process requires tools that developers know and understand. GitOps is the name for how DevOps use developer tooling to drive operations. GitOps is a way to do Continuous Delivery. More specifically, it is an operating model for building Cloud Native applications that unify Deployment, Monitoring, and Management. It works by using Git as a source of truth for declarative infrastructure and applications.
