Announcing the 2020 DevOps Dozen² Awards Finalists

We are excited to announce the 2020 DevOps Dozen² Awards finalists. For six years in a row, we have been honoring the most outstanding leaders in the DevOps community. This year, we decided to expand our awards program to include two different sections: DevOps Dozen Tools and Services Awards and DevOps Dozen Community Awards.

Those who made it to the finals have demonstrated exceptional performance and service to the community during the past year. Finalists were picked based on most nominations. Congratulations to each and every one of the finalists in the 24 categories. It is quite an accomplishment to make it this far.

Without further ado, here are the finalists for the 2020 DevOps Dozen² Awards.

DevOps Dozen Community Awards

1. Best DevOps Industry Implementation

• BNP Paribas Corporate & Institutional Banking (CIB)
• DevX DevOps Pipeline
• Granulate
• Internal Revenue Service (IRS) & Citizant
• Lloyds Banking Group
• Nedbank

2. Best DevOps Survey/Analysis/Research

• 2020 State of DevOps Report
• IDC State of Mainframe DevOps study
• Mapping the DevSecOps Landscape 2020 Survey
• More Perfect Software Research
• The Emergence of Big Code
• The Future of Remote Work and Software Development

3. Best DevOps Related Video Series (Video)

• Day-to-Day DevOps
• Devops Unbound
• Introducing IBM Wazi Developer for Red Hat CodeReady Workspaces
• QualiFYI

4. Best DevOps.com Podcast of the Series (Audio Only) of the Year

• DevOps Radio
• DevOps Unbound
• Pulling the Strings
• Sourcegraph
• The Balancing Act
• The Modern Mainframe: Building a Better Software Delivery Platform
• Z DevOps Talks

5. Best DevOps Books / eBook of the Year

• Continuous Delivery in the Wild
• Sourcegraph: Universal code search and intelligence
• Standing On Shoulders: A Leader’s Guide to Digital Transformation
• The cheap, easy way to deploy an app to AWS
• The (Delicate) Art of Bureaucracy
• The Essential Guide to Managing Your Cloud Resources for Scalable DevOps

6. Top DevOps Evangelist

• Brian Dawson
• Christian Posta
• Helen Beal
• Mark Miller
• Dr. Niladri Choudhuri
• Rick Slade
• Rosalind Radcliffe

7. Best DevOps Transformation (Non-Vendor)

• BNP Paribas
• Fidelity Investments
• Royal Bank of Canada
• Royal Bank of Scotland
• Tata Consultancy Services
• Umut Arslan, Garanti Bank

8. Best DevOps Virtual Event of the Year

• Cloud Native Virtual Summit featuring Kubernetes
• DEVOPS 2020 – The Next Decade
• DevOps Enterprise Summit
• DevOps India Summit
• DevOps World 2020
• EclipseCon
• Spinnaker Live
• swampUP 2020

9. Most Innovative DevOps Open Source Project

• Fairwinds Polaris
• Gitpod
• Grafana Loki
• Kubernetes Universal Declarative Operator (KUDO)
• Liquibase
• Open Policy Agent (OPA)
• Spinnaker

10. DevOps Executive of the Year

• Ashok Reddy – CEO at Digital.ai
• Hayden Lindsey – Vice President, WW Engineering & Architecture, Mainframe Software Division, Broadcom
• Idit Levine – CEO and Founder at Solo.io
• Jim Rose – CEO at CircleCI
• Shlomi Ben Haim – Co-Founder & CEO at JFrog
• Sid Sijbrandij, CEO and Co-Founder of GitLab

11. Best DevOps Presentation of the Year

• Coordinating Releases in a Decentralized World – Henry Jewkes
• Cyber Security – Demand for Digital Forensics – Hima Bindu Vejella
• IBM DevSecOps for IBM Z – Rosalind Radcliffe
• Keynote: On Ramp to Open DevOps for Mainframe – George DeCandio

12. Best DevOps.com Article of the Year

• 5 Project Management Skills Every Developer Should Have
• Cybersecurity: What Programming Language Is Better for Your Career?
• DRY Comes to COBOL in IBM Z Development
• How to Achieve a Converged Toolchain
• How to Reduce Engineer Burnout During COVID-19
• SaaS : The Dirty Secret No Tech Company Talks About
• SDM and the DevOps Delusion of Connected Organizations

DevOps Dozen Tools and Services Awards

1. Best End to End DevOps Tool/Service

• Basis Technologies
• Eficode Oy
• GitLab
• JFrog
• Kong Enterprise
• PagerDuty
• Quali
• Stelligent
• Uploadcare, Inc.

2. Best DevOps Repo/GitOps Tool/Service

• Artificatory
• Codefresh
• GitHub
• GitLab
• Nexus
• Weaveworks

3. Best CI/CD Tool

• BuildKite
• CircleCI
• CloudBees
• Compuware
• Copado
• GitLab
• HCL Software
• JFrog
• SplitSoftware

4. Best Value Stream Management Tool

• ConnectALL
• Digital.ai
• HCL Software
• Plutora Platform
• Tasktop

5. Best Observability Solution

• Grafana Labs
• Instana
• Lightrun
• Splunk
• VirtualMetric

6. Best DevSecOps Solution

• Checkmarx
• Fairwinds
• GitLab
• JFrog
• Synopsys
• Sysdig
• Veracode
• ZeroNorth

7. Best Testing Service/Tool

• Applitools
• Applause
• Compuware
• Deque
• Eggplant
• EPAM Systems
• IBM
• Insomnia
• Tricentis

8. Best Kubernetes Platform/Service

• Amazon EKS
• DigitalOcean
• Fairwinds
• Google Kubernetes Engine
• OpenShift
• RancherOS

9. Best Cloud Native Security Solution/Service

• Emertic
• StackRox
• Styra
• NeuVector
• Tauruseer

10. Best DevOps for Mainframe Solution

• Broadcom
• Compuware Topaz
• GitLab
• IBM Wazi Developer

11. Best DevOps for DataOps/Database Solution

• DBMaestro
• InfluxDB
• Liquibase
• Robin.io

12. Best New DevOps Tool/Service Provider

• Blameless
• GitPod
• Nobl9
• Opsera
• Security Compass
• Transposit

Finalists will receive a badge to display on their website and social media with a link to the voting/survey site.

Voting for the winners in all 24 categories is now officially open to the public. Click here to vote for the leaders, tools and companies you think are truly deserving of an award for their exceptional service to the DevOps community. Winners will be chosen from among the finalists with general public voting being weighted for 40% of the final total and our judges selections for 60% of the weighted total. The deadline for public voting and judges submissions is Jan. 8, 2021.

Winners will be announced at Predict 2021 Virtual Summit and will receive both digital and physical trophies and badges celebrating their achievements.

Thanks to everyone who voted and nominated candidates. Good luck to all the finalists!