The report found that the global Covid-19 pandemic has caused companies to move 20 to 25 times faster than they were previously. This has caused an increase in demand for individuals filling SRE and DevOps roles. Security continued to rank high among the sought after skills as security continues to shift left:
"There is a similar ‘shift left’ movement underway around such things as identity as code, privacy as code, and policy as code that broadens the scope of the DevOps universe."
The report also highlighted the importance of a strong, healthy culture to enable an
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effective DevOps transformation:
"Culture refers to the organization’s informal patterns that signal to people which behaviors are appropriate and which behaviors define you as difficult. Our survey respondents attribute the lack of DevOps progress in tackling challenges with the organizations’ culture."
The DevOps human skill journey as identified by the DevOps Institute (credit:
InfoQ sat down with Eveline Oerhlich, Chief Research Office for the DevOps Institute, to discuss the report's findings in more detail.
The DevOps Institute recently released their latest report entitled "Upskilling 2021: Enterprise DevOps Skills Report". The report found that automation and security remain vital to business success. A focus on building the human skills of DevOps was also identified as companies with the best learning cultures were most likely to succeed.
Building an
Effective DevOps Culture
Q&A with
Eveline Oerhlich