Every community has those who standout as leaders in their field who spread the DevOps gospel everyday. This award recognizes the individual whose peers in the DevOps community recognize for outstanding leadership, knowledge and communication

Large-Scale DevSecOps Transformation Webinar – This webinar offers actionable solutions for overcoming challenges in large-scale DevSecOps transformation. Learn how to effectively plan and execute transformations across products and platforms while ensuring security and quality throughout the software development process.

The Day in the Life of a Mainframe Developer using Git Workflow – The move from a legacy SCM on Z to Git and Git Workflow is a big change. This series makes it is easy to understand and see what it means to a mainframe developer to adopt Git and Git Workflow in an entertaining, informative and conversational manner. It is comprised of 3-5 minute videos that follow the journey of a Deb the mainframe developer through the software development lifecycle using modern DevOps tools to accelerate delivery with greater quality.

“What’s Up, Mainframe” podcast, hosted by Lukas and Zach – The “What’s Up, Mainframe” podcast offers an entertaining look at the world of DevOps through the eyes of the people creating the solutions and those using them. The fun-filled first season includes 15 episodes combining deep insights about enterprise DevOps modernization, both process and tooling, with light-hearted moments and laughs. Guaranteed to bring a smile to your face!

Grafana’s Big Tent podcast – Grafana’s Big Tent is a podcast all about the people, community, tools, and tech shaping observability. Hosts Mat Ryer, Tom Wilkie, and Matt Toback speak with various industry experts to help listeners understand and navigate the biggest challenges and opportunities within the observability space. The show covers open-source projects like Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and Kubernetes as well as broader industry trends in monitoring and observability – from DDoS mitigation to caching.

The Modern Mainframe – BMC’s mainframe podcast, The Modern Mainframe features discussions with executives, practitioners, DevOps evangelists, and industry analysts, presenting insightful news and analysis of DevOps topics across the mainframe, including application development, operations, database DevOps, and more.

Each year sees a number of well-crafted DevOps-related books. This category recognizes the most popular and best read of the year.

The DevOps Story – The DevOps Story” is a comprehensive exploration of the evolution, principles, and transformative impact of DevOps in the world of software development and IT operations.

Kubernetes: Practical Guide for Developers and DevOps Teams – Unravel the complexities of Kubernetes with this hands-on guide! Start with an introduction to Kubernetes architecture and components such as nodes, Minikube, and kubectl commands. Follow tutorials to set up your first clusters and pods, and then dive into more advanced concepts like DaemonSets, batch jobs, and custom resource definitions. Perform resource management, set up autoscaling, deploy applications with Helm, and more!

Continuous Testing, Quality, Security and Feedback: Essential strategies and secure practices for DevOps, DevSecOps, and SRE transformations – “In the rapidly evolving landscape of software development, the integration of continuous testing, quality, security, and feedback has become pivotal for organizations aiming to achieve successful digital transformations. Continuous Testing, Quality, Security, and Feedback is a comprehensive guide that delves into the core strategies necessary for embedding these practices into the heart of DevOps, DevSecOps, and SRE methodologies. The book is a catalyst for transformation.”

Flow Engineering – An excellent on-ramp to effective flow improvement across teams using collaborative mapping techniques and theory.

Every community has those who standout as leaders in their field who spread the DevOps gospel everyday. This award recognizes the individual whose peers in the DevOps community recognize for outstanding leadership, knowledge and communication.

Omkar Kadam, Cactus Communications Pvt. Ltd. – As a DevOps expert, I have dedicated my career to advocating for best practices in the DevOps community, mentoring professionals, and creating accessible learning resources through podcasts, newsletters, and hands-on cohorts. My efforts focus on empowering individuals and teams to embrace DevOps, fostering collaboration, automation, and innovation. Through initiatives like the ‘ABCD – Any Buddy Can DevOps’ cohort, I have helped hundreds of learners and professionals elevate their skills.

Giorgi Keratishvili, DevOps Georgia – Giorgi has been in IT field a decade, during this period he has been exposed to majority fields of Development and Operation, beside working hour Giorgi is very actively participating in community he plays role of AWS Community Leader in Tbilisi also Ambassador for CD foundation, CNCF Kubestronaut, CNCF chapter lead, IEEE Senior Member and Ambassador for Institute of DevOps also he conducts meetups to grow DevOps/SRE/Platform Engineering awareness in Georgian community.

Which is your favorite DevOps podcast from this year? In addition to DevOps Chats there are many podcasts focusing on a multitude of topics from CI/CD and testing to DevSecOps, Kubernetes, containers and more.

swampUP – swampUP, JFrog’s DevOps, DevSecOps and MLOps user conference, has become a renowned software industry event. swampUP brings together developers, DevOps teams, security researchers, data scientists, innovators and IT professionals to discuss the latest technology trends and software innovations. Insightful keynotes, engaging sessions, and hands-on training will feature JFrog tech executives, solutions experts, and industry luminaries to discuss practical ways to prepare for what’s coming next.

GrafanaCON 2024 – GrafanaCON 2024 was an annual conference hosted by Grafana Labs, focused on all things Grafana and its extended open source ecosystem. The event took place in Amsterdam on April 9-10, marking the first in-person conference in five years. The conference was sold out and featured a variety of activities, including technical talks, live demos, hands-on sessions, and user success stories.

Galaxy ‘24 – LaunchDarkly’s annual user conference, Galaxy ‘24, gathered developers and innovators for two days of actionable insights and training geared toward helping them prepare for their most important releases yet. For the first time ever, the event was in-person, bringing together the LaunchDarkly community in San Francisco. Attendees participated in hands-on workshops about the platform’s features, learned from top-tier guest speakers, and participated in an AI Hackathon to test their knowledge.

Open source software is an important part of every organization’s set of development assets promoting innovation, velocity, quality and efficiency. This award recognizes the open source project that delivers the greatest value through a community of people who work on and with the open source technology and support each other.

vCluster – vCluster is the only open source project that allows teams to create fully functional virtual Kubernetes clusters, drastically reducing costs and improving multi-tenancy and isolation compared to traditional Kubernetes. Virtual clusters run inside namespaces of the underlying cluster and can be spun up in seconds. With over 6,300 GitHub stars, a Slack community of 3,600, and more than 40 million virtual clusters spun up to date, vCluster is empowering developers with self-service Kubernetes.

Galasa – Galasa is an innovative open-source test framework designed to automate and scale testing across hybrid infrastructures, including cloud-native and legacy systems such as IBM Z Mainframe. Seamlessly integrating into CI/CD pipelines, it supports end-to-end testing of complex environments, empowering DevOps teams to continuously deliver quality software. Galasa’s scalability, flexibility, and open architecture make it a game-changer for DevOps testing in modern and traditional enterprises.

Eclipse Temurin – The Eclipse Temurin project is the fastest-growing open source Java SE runtime, currently exceeding 23 million downloads per month and more than 380 million downloads to date. It provides code and processes that support the building of runtime binaries and associated technologies that are high-performance, enterprise-caliber, cross-platform, open-source licensed, and Java SE TCK-tested for general use across the Java ecosystem.

Grafana Alloy – Grafana Alloy is a distribution of the OTel Collector. It’s an OTLP-compatible collector with built-in Prometheus optimizations that supports signals across metrics, logs, traces, and profiles. It provides many features that help quickly find and process data in complex environments. It can be deployed anywhere within your IT infrastructure and paired with any compatible backend from any vendor. Alloy is flexible and configurable to fit your needs on-prem, cloud-only, or a mix of both.

Jenkins – Jenkins is the leading open-source automation server supported by a large community of developers, testers, designers, and other people interested in continuous integration, continuous delivery, and software delivery practices. Using an extensible, plugin-based architecture, developers have created 1,900+ plugins to enable Jenkins to integrate with a multitude of build, test, and deployment technologies.

ZAP by Checkmarx – ZAP by Checkmarx is an open-source web application security scanner that helps users find and fix security vulnerabilities in their web applications. It ZAP can automatically find vulnerabilities during development and can also be used manually by experienced penetration testers. ZAP can scan APIs that use formats like JSON and XML. It was designed to be used by people with a wide range of security experience, including developers and functional testers who are new to penetration testing.

CloudOps Accelerator – CloudOps Accelerator is an open-source, fully automated multi-cloud infrastructure framework that simplifies cloud resource provisioning, scaling, and monitoring across AWS, Azure, and GCP using Terraform, Kubernetes, and GitOps. This project significantly reduces deployment complexity and operational overhead, providing an innovative, highly secure, and scalable platform for enterprise-level DevOps teams.

AI is changing the world in which we live and work at an incredible pace. This award recognizes the organization that has applied AI in the most interesting and productive way to improve or accelerate the use of DevOps.

DevOps.com publishes multiple new articles every day. This award recognizes the best article from this year. Let us know so we can recognize the author.

Blog: 404 Role Not Found by Garima Bajpai – “Blog : 404 Role Not Found – Generative AI impact on DevOps Jobs https://devops.com/404-role-not-found-generative-ais-impact-on-devops-job. This blog stirred a lot of discussion and was presented in many conferences including All Day DevOps 2024, DevOpsCon London, San Diego and New York.”

Succeeding at DevSecOps Requires a Rubric for SDLC Governance by Raj Mallempati – “As businesses across industries rely on software development, integrating security into DevOps is more urgent than ever. Attackers continue to experiment & exploit weaknesses in the SDLC, highlighting that it is no longer sufficient to only protect the cloud in which the application is hosted.
Raj Mallempati advocates for breaking DevSecOps down into four essential pillars, offering a rubric for preventing SDLC breaches: identity governance, CI/CD governance, code governance and SDLC compliance.”

The Ruby on Rails Resurgence by Jim Remsik – Ruby on Rails is having a much-deserved resurgence because it enables teams to rapidly develop innovative web apps for clients who need to see them deployed quickly. Just as important, it improves developer happiness.

Platform Engineering: The 2024 Game-Changer in Tech by Yossi Carmon – Platform engineering is anticipated to gain significant momentum in 2024 as it offers crucial advantages in accelerating business value, reducing cognitive loads and enhancing the efficiency of application development and management processes.

Can AI Replace DevOps Engineers? by Alexander Simonov – What does AI do well, where does it fall short in DevOps, and should DevOps professionals fear it and start re-skilling today.

Enhancing Your Company’s DevEx With CI/CD Strategies by Romaric Philogène – Developer productivity has become crucial for companies leading to the developer experience (DevEx) concept — encompassing how developers perceive and engage with their work environment.

An organization’s leadership plays a critical role in shepherding its team through innovation and change.This award recognizes a strong DevOps leader who guides their team through the challenges of developing and implementing DevOps strategies, policies, culture and practices to improve software development and delivery.

Sheree Britt, AVP, Software Engineering Mainframe Modernization, TD Bank Group – “Culture change can be challenging in the best of circumstances but with entrenched legacy environments in large, complex organizations, it can seem overwhelming. This hasn’t stopped Sheree. Sheree Britt is a passionate advocate for enterprise DevOps modernization and is a recognized leader of IT transformation, both internally and externally. She has leaned in to DevOps practices and principles and has the organization excited about the early wins and the extraordinary long-term potential.”