DevOps Brief

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Business demands on IT are constantly growing, but DevOps can help streamline the way teams work together, often through automation. This is especially true if you have a team with more than five developers, testers, and more than one “rollout” stand.

DevOps also allows you to speed up the development and delivery of new features to quickly update the solution and fix bugs. It also allows you to get rid of downtime during failures, updates, or periods of high loads. As a result, the user receives a service that works stably even under high loads: for example, b2c products in retail, gaming, or the media sphere.

DevOps also makes it easier to scale by quickly and predictably launching new environments using Infrastructure As Code. For example, with a microservice content writing service architecture, you can quickly and smoothly add new modules and expand the capabilities of the solution.

A well-established DevOps culture significantly reduces the cost of doing business even for small companies



Having analyzed the development vector of DevOps culture in Russia and current business demands, we identified key DevOps trends in 2024: import substitution, cybersecurity and resource optimization.

The import substitution trend was formed back in 2023 and is likely to strengthen in 2024. According to State of DevOps 2023, this year in Russia, 14% more companies used the Debian/Ubuntu Linux OS than in 2021. Analysts are confident that the demand is caused by the request for import substitution through open-source solutions and the growing popularity of Kubernetes, which manages a cluster of Linux containers as a single system. Every fourth company plans to work on Astra Linux, Alt OS, RED OS or another Russian OS.

Business is also starting to replace SaaS solutions. In 2023, 42% of companies still use foreign SaaS services such as Gitlab, Github, Bitbucket Issues and others, and another 35% have installed foreign commercial services on their own servers. Russian SaaS analogues of Yandex Tracker or Kaiten are used by 16% of companies, and open-source services on their own servers are used by slightly more - 19%. Probably, in 2024, businesses will even more often implement Russian solutions or switch to Self-Hosted Open Source.

With cloud solutions, everything is the other way around. We can say that the full transition to domestic clouds is almost complete, among which YandexCloud is the confident leader. It is followed by SberCloud, Selectel and RTS Cloud. Also, platforms like OpenShift are increasingly being replaced by Deckhouse or managed K8s. Probably, in 2024 there will be a release of platform solutions for K8s from Russian developers.

The trend towards cybersecurity has been established against the backdrop of an increase in information attacks: in Q2 2023, there were 24% more of them than in the previous period, and in Q3, there were 16% more than in Q2. Their number will probably increase in the coming year. This makes businesses increasingly think about DevSecOps.