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The state of GitOps report: Insights into the adoption and challenges of real-world GitOps

State of GitOps edition 1. Octopus Deploy and Codefresh

Thanks to your participation, we gathered 660 responses for the State of GitOps survey. Your insights are invaluable, and we genuinely appreciate the time and effort you put into sharing your thoughts.

We're now analyzing the data, uncovering trends, and testing our hypotheses. Will the results confirm what we expected or reveal some surprises? We'll find out soon.

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The state of GitOps report

As interest in GitOps grows, it's time to gather insights into adoption across the industry. Based on 660 responses to our survey, we're investigating:

  • What good GitOps looks like
  • Current industry adoption of GitOps
  • Future plans for GitOps
  • The relationship between GitOps and DevOps
  • The benefits of GitOps
  • Which GitOps practices drive outcomes

We'll publish the results here when the survey is complete.

Publication date: Coming soon!

The GitOps model

The model maps GitOps practices to DevOps measures and outcomes. The full report has a deep dive into the relationships each practice has with DevOps and the expected benefits of GitOps.

GitOps practices like declarative desired state, human readable format, responsive code review, version control, automatic pull, and continuous reconciliation with arrows pointing at DevOps measures. DevOps measures include software delivery performance, reliability, and wellbeing.
A linear regression line showing the relationship between normalized scores for GitOps and the DORA 4 keys

GitOps and DevOps

We created scores for GitOps to compare with DORA's metrics and outcomes. Through these scores, we can establish GitOps' relationship with software delivery performance, reliability, and wellbeing.

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Meet the author: Steve Fenton

Steve Fenton is an Octonaut at Octopus Deploy and six-time Microsoft MVP for developer technologies. He’s a Software Punk, an author, a programming architect, a pragmatist/abstractionist, and a generalising-generalist. He has written books on TypeScript, Octopus Deploy, and Web Operations Monitoring.

His current day job is writing. His previous day jobs have spanned the worlds of Product Management, Data and Analytics, Support, and Software Development, typically in leadership roles.