Cloud and container disruptions drive continued growth in the importance of automation and orchestration as essential components of critical digital transformation initiatives. Rising from 55% last year, 62% of respondents this year report leveraging a range of automation and orchestration toolsets to help speed application development, deployment, and delivery.
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62% of respondents are deploying automation and orchestration initiatives—and developer-oriented solutions are leading the charge.
“For each of the application services below, please indicate your company’s current deployment status."
WE ASKED:
FIGURE 06:
PERCENTAGE OF ORGANIZATIONS AUTOMATING COMPONENTS OF THE PRODUCTION PIPELINE
Application infrastructure
Application services (L4-7)
Network (L2-3)
Security services
Organizations leverage developer-oriented solutions to automate the network.
While a solid 35% are piloting or
in production with self-service
provisioning outside of IT, this
number jumps to 46% for those
organizations operating under a
digital transformation initiative.
These numbers are highly influenced
by the composition of applications
being supported. Those with portfolios composed of more than 50% external-facing (customer, partner, consumer) applications exhibit higher adoption rates of automation across all four pipeline domains. Organizations understand that the rate of change required for external-facing applications can best be maintained with an automated deployment process.
More than one-third have automated all four key components of the production pipeline.
An increasingly cross-functional/integrated IT organization is influencing a shift away from network-centric automation tools toward developer-oriented solutions. In addition, many of the early traditional network automation offerings are unable to extend beyond simply managing devices and often leave holes that organizations need to fill with more comprehensive solutions for implementing their toolchains.
The maturity of existing solutions like GitHub Enterprise and Jenkins allows organizations to efficiently fill these holes and address the issue of skill scarcity in IT. Even if the market offers a viable network and infrastructure-focused alternative, we expect that the benefits of standardization on existing tools across an organization are likely to outweigh the appeal of such an offering.
“Which of the following toolsets do you use or plan to use in the next 12 months to automate the network? Choose all that apply.”
WE ASKED:
FIGURE 07:
TRENDS IN TOOLSET USAGE
FOR NETWORK AUTOMATION
2018
2019
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DevOps drives NetOps to standardize on their automation tools.
With automation and orchestration being so important to the success of the enterprise, the pressure is on NetOps to deliver self-service provisioning and adopt configuration- and infrastructure-as-code methodologies. Organizations look to developers and DevOps groups to lead the way in standardizing on tools (such as Jenkins and GitHub Enterprise) and cross-functional team structures that enable faster development, deployment, and delivery of applications. The one thing everyone agrees on—regardless of role or team structure or industry—is that Python is the go-to tool when it comes to overall automation and orchestration.
VMware
Cisco
None
OpenStack
Open Source
Jenkins
GitHub Enterprise
Cloud provider
SaltStack
65%
44%
33%
48%
16%
26%
5%
24%
23%
18%
16%
15%
13%
4%
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
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