We are proud to announce the DevOps Dozen² 2023 honorees. For the past nine years, the DevOps Dozen Awards have celebrated the most outstanding individuals and companies in the DevOps community and their remarkable contributions to the industry. These honorees have demonstrated their leadership and commitment to our community during the past year.

Congratulations to all those nominated and to the honorees. All of your hard work and dedication are greatly appreciated.

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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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Without further ado, here are the DevOps Dozen² 2023 honorees:

DevOps Dozen Community Awards

1. Best DevOps Industry Implementation: St James’s Place DevOps Implementation

2. Best DevOps Survey/Analysis/Research: Accelerate State of DevOps Report by DORA

3. Best DevOps-Related Video Series (video): DevOps Exchange YouTube Channel

4. Best DevOps-Related Audio Podcast Series: DevOps Paradox

5. Best DevOps Book/eBook of the Year: Industrial DevOps: Build Better Systems Faster by Dr. Suzette Johnson and Robin Yeman

6. Top DevOps Evangelist: Fatima Sarah Khalid, Developer Evangelist at GitLab

7. Best DevOps Transformation (non-vendor): Pera People Science B.V

8. Best DevOps Event of the Year: swampUP by JFrog

9. Most Innovative DevOps Open Source Project: Jenkins

10. DevOps Executive of the Year (non-vendor): Garima Bajpai, Founder of Canada DevOps Community of Practice

11. Best DevOps Presentation of the Year: It’s Time to Rip Off the Training Wheels and Enable End-to-End Automation (BMC Software)

12. Best DevOps.com Article of the Year: DevSecOps: The Fusion of Security and DevOps for Enhanced Software Security by Muneesh Sharma, Neem Consulting Ltd.

DevOps Dozen Tools and Services Awards

1. Best End-to-End DevOps Tool/Service: JFrog Software Supply Chain Platform

2. Best DevOps Repo/GitOps Tool/Service: gitStream by LinearB

3. Best CI/CD Tool: CloudBees CI/CDRO

4. Best Value Stream Management Tool: ValueOps by Broadcom

5. Best Observability Solution: Grafana Cloud Free Tier

6. Best DevSecOps Solution: GitLab

7. Best Testing Tool/Service: Tricentis Mobile

8. Best Kubernetes Platform/Service: Rafay Systems

9. Best Cloud-Native Security Solution/Service: Sysdig Secure

10. Best DevOps for Mainframe Solution: BMC AMI DevX tool suite

11. Best DevOps for DataOps/Database Solution: Percona

12. Best New DevOps Tool/Service Provider: New Relic Grok (now New Relic AI)

The honorees will receive both digital badges and physical trophies celebrating their achievements.

Winners were chosen from among the finalists with general public voting counting for 40% of the final total and our judges’ selections for 60% of the weighted total. The panel of judges went through thousands of votes to choose the winners in each category—it was not an easy task. Many thanks to our judges for making the hard calls and to everyone who has supported the DevOps Dozen² Awards by nominating candidates and voting.

For more information, please visit the DevOps Dozen² Awards website and stay tuned for the DevOps Dozen² 2024 Awards.