Adoption of DevOps is no longer an option today but an imperative for businesses to excel in this competitive era characterised by technology disruptions. According to a recent research report by ResearchAndMarkest, the global DevOps market is expected to become USD 10.5 Billion by 2024, growing at a CAGR of 20 percent till 2024. A large number of businesses cutting across industries right from banking to shopping and entertainment are opting for automated software deployment, which is more accurate and cost-effective than the manual processes. "DevOps adoption means that you are willing to change fast, develop fast, test fast, fail fast, recover fast, learn fast and push the product or features fast to the market," opines Pavan Belagatti, Growth & DevOps Community Engagement, JFrog. As more and more companies are adopting DevOps solutions, let us have a look some of the current trends in the DevOps technology that businesses need to look at and consider to stay ahead of the peers.  

AI and ML Amalgamation with DevOps                   

Integrating AI and ML within the DevOps strategy can help businesses process large volumes of information including text, video, voice and images, allowing IT departments to focus on their core activities. Cognitive technologies by learning patterns can anticipate future problems and suggest preventive measures well in advance.

Micro-services and DevOps Going Hand in Hand

Although micro-services and DevOps are two separate technology spaces, they can speed up the software development by working together. The independent nature and modularity of micro-services helps to accomplish more in less time with incremental releases. DevOps working in tandem with micro-services helps companies make enterprise applications highly scalable, robust and agile.   

Shift from CI Pipelines to Assembly Lines 

The prime objective of DevOps adoption is to enhance collaboration between all stakeholders and improve time-to-market. However, bringing together the fragmented DevOps tools to achieve continuous process improvement is a challenge for DevOps teams. And DevOps Assembly lines helps them exactly with this, enabling them to easily automate activities in the software development cycle.

DevSecOps- A New Avenue to Explore

DevSecOps is an emerging philosophy of bulding security practices into the DevOps processes so as to bridge the security gaps in the software development while ensuring safe delivery of the product.