Automation driving DevOps adoption

BOULDER, USA: JumpCloud, the leading automated server management tool for DevOps and IT pros, published survey results from its DevOps Conference hosted in conjunction with SoftLayer.

The survey confirms that the rapid adoption of DevOps is driven by the need for increased automation and constant pressure to complete tasks. When asked to describe their greatest challenges and most time consuming tasks, leading responses referenced deployment and patching activities. User management and log file analysis and forensics were also near the top of responses by the DevOps Conference attendees.

Regardless of the specific challenges or tasks identified, attendees of the event unified around an increasing lack of time with expanding responsibilities and accelerated production cycles. Survey results pointed specifically to manual tasks as hurdles to time management. In order to address this issue, DevOps focused organizations are searching for ways to automate tasks and more effectively manage the explosion of online infrastructure.

"We decided to hold this DevOps conference with Foundry Group, TechStars, and Bullet Time Ventures companies in order to gain some base level insight and understanding into the state of the DevOps movement," said Rajat Bhargava, CEO, JumpCloud.

"The conference aimed to advance the DevOps movement through the sharing of best practices and a compilation of survey data from a highly targeted respondent group of leading voices in the DevOps movement. We could not have been happier with the over 200 leaders in the field from over 100 companies who were able to attend and help us to gain and share some insight into this increasingly important movement."