We are thrilled to announce that nominations for the DevOps Dozen 2024 are officially open! Now in its tenth year, the DevOps Dozen continues to spotlight the standout contributors, projects, and companies driving the DevOps community forward.

This year, we have updated and refined our award categories to better reflect the evolving landscape of DevOps and embrace the latest industry innovations. Some categories celebrate the commercial DevOps solutions making waves in the market, while others highlight the dynamic community and open-source efforts that power DevOps.

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Which of the following best describes how you currently monitor and manage systems across your hybrid cloud environment?(Required)

Multiple separate tools for different environments

Multiple separate tools for different monitoring and management functions

Single consolidated dashboard

Custom built monitoring and management solution

No full monitoring and management solution

Don’t know

How valuable would it be for your monitoring and management solution to incorporate predictive analytics to help you identify and address system issues that are critical and not waste time or effort working through all the data and “noise” that is not critical?(Required)

Extremely valuable

Moderately valuable

Somewhat valuable

Slightly valuable

Not valuable

How do you most typically address potential system issues BEFORE they impact your operations?(Required)

Automated workflows and playbooks to remediate potential issues as soon as they are detected

An orchestrated response process that leverages automation, AI, and human expertise to rapidly respond to potential issues

Advanced monitoring tools such as predictive analytics and anomaly detection to proactively identify and address potential issues

Respond to issues as they arise, using manual processes and troubleshooting techniques

A combination of automated remediation, orchestrated response, and/or proactive monitoring to address potential system issues

Don’t know

Other

What methods does your organization use to control and monitor cloud/IT spending?(Required)

Centralized procurement processes

Pre-approved budget thresholds

Automated cost monitoring tools

Department-level spending controls

Regular cost audits and reviews

Cloud cost optimization platform

Approval workflows for resource provisioning

Native financial operations tools provided by the cloud provider

No formal controls in place

Don’t know

Other

Please specify:

Which methods do you rely on most to detect security vulnerabilities in your systems?(Required)

Automated scanning tools

Manual assessments

Vendor notifications

Threat modeling (for early detection)

None of these

Don’t know

Other

Please specify:

What are the TWO most common ways you prioritize vulnerabilities to address within your environment?(Required)

Based on potential impact

Based on exploitability

Regulatory compliance requirements

Based on CVSS scores

Risk-based analysis of multiple factors

First-in-first-out approach

No formal prioritization process

Don’t know

How do you typically handle system updates and security patches?(Required)

Automated updates and patches

Manually review and apply updates and patches on a regular schedule

A combination of automation and manual review

Apply updates and patches on an as-needed basis.

Outsourced update and patch management

No defined process

Don’t know

Other

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The nomination process remains as rigorous as ever, with two stages: Nominations for finalists are open now and will close on October 18, 2024. Finalists will be announced on November 11, 2024, after which public voting will take place. This year’s winners will be determined through a combination of public votes (40%) and expert evaluations from our esteemed panel of judges (60%). Our panel of judges will be announced soon on the DevOps Dozen website.

As with previous years, a nominal fee will be required for commercial category nominations to reduce spam and help cover administrative costs. To ensure a fair process, if a category receives more than 10 submissions, we will refund the fee for those entries that do not make it to the finalist stage. Community nominations remain free, but any spamming attempts will result in disqualification.

Without further ado, here are the categories for the DevOps Dozen awards:

DevOps Dozen Tools and Services Awards

• Best DevOps Industry Implementation
  Many organizations have transformed their business by successfully adopting and implementing DevOps principles, practices and solutions. This award recognizes those enterprises that have successfully achieved DevOps success and have worked with their solution partner to do so.

• Best DevOps Survey/Analysis/ Research
  This award recognizes industry research and analysis that has significantly and positively impacted the DevOps community.
• Best End-to-End DevOps Platform
  Consolidation in the DevOps space has led to a greater selection of platforms offering end-to-end solutions with increasing feature sets. This award honors the platform with the most diverse and robust solution for DevOps teams.
• Best application of AI in DevOps Tool/Platform
  AI is changing and improving DevOps Tools and Platforms at a rapid pace.. This award recognizes the DevOps Tool or Platform that has applied AI in the most interesting and productive way to improve or accelerate the application of DevOps principles.
• Top DevOps Vendor Evangelist
  DevOps solution providers typically are on the leading edge of new DevOps strategies, tools and practices. This award recognizes the individual that does the best job of informing the DevOps community about new and exciting tools and practices to deliver DevOps success and business value.
• Best Value Stream Management
  Value stream management is an important tool for measuring the business value of DevOps and application development. This award recognizes the value stream management tool that most effectively helps visualize the value stream, track metrics and measure improvement.
• Best Observability Solution
  This award recognizes the best observability solution for observing and monitoring to understand the performance of individual components, systems and entire applications.
• Best DevSecOps Solution
  This award honors the best DevSecOps solution, which enables security to be included earlier and continuously throughout the SDLC.
• Best Platform Engineering Solution
  This award recognizes the best Platform Engineering solution enabling self-service capabilities for software engineering organizations in the cloud-native era covering the operational necessities of the entire lifecycle of an application.
• Best Testing Service/Tool
  Testing is a mainstay in the DevOps toolchain, and this award recognizes the best testing tool for ensuring the quality of code.
• Best DevOps for Mainframe Solution
  Mainframes are far from being the dinosaur of the IT world. This award recognizes the best solution for implementing DevOps practices in mainframe environments and hybrid environments.
• Best DevOps for DataOps/Database Solution
  Databases often have been left out of the DevOps conversation, but that is changing. This award recognizes the best database related solution for DevOps and DataOps.
• Best New DevOps Tool
  This award recognizes the best tool that has brought innovation to the DevOps space in the past year. (Less than 24 months old)
• Best New DevOps Service Provider
  This award recognizes the best new service provider that has brought innovation to the DevOps space in the past year. (Less than 24 months old)

DevOps Dozen Community Awards

• Best DevOps-Related Video or Audio Podcast
  Podcasts are popular ways for DevOps Leaders and Practitioners to keep current. This award recognizes the most educational, informative and inspirational DevOps video or audio podcast series – those with the most engaging and highest-quality content that keeps listeners coming back for more.
• Best DevOps Book of the Year
  Each year sees a number of well-crafted DevOps-related books. This category recognizes the most popular and best read of the year.
• Top DevOps Evangelist
  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.
• Best DevOps Event of the Year
  Events and conferences are an important part of IT life. This category includes both in-person and virtual events. Which DevOps event stands out from the others and delivers the best content, speakers and attendee experience?
• Most Innovative DevOps Open Source Project
  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.
• Best Application of AI in DevOps Practices
  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 Enterprise Leader of the Year
  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.

• Best DevOps.com Article of the Year
  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.

Good luck to all the nominees for the DevOps Dozen Awards 2024. We look forward to seeing your contributions and innovations recognized. Finalists will be announced on November 11, 2024—stay tuned!