We are excited to announce the finalists for the DevOps Dozen² Awards 2023, celebrating the greatest innovators and their achievements in the DevOps space. These individuals and companies have taken an active role in the DevOps community, demonstrating their leadership and commitment to the improvement of our industry in the past year. 

Congratulations to every one of the finalists. 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 finalists for the DevOps Dozen² Awards 2023:

DevOps Dozen Community Awards

1. Best DevOps Industry Implementation

• Codacy Pioneers Program (Codacy’s Pioneers Programme)
• DevOps Implementation across the SJP enterprise systems (St James’s Place in Partnership with Intellect Design Arena)

2. Best DevOps Survey/Analysis/Research

• State of Digital Quality Report 2023 (Applause)
• The Shift to a Security Approach for the Full Application Stack Report (Cisco AppDynamics)
• Accelerate State of DevOps Report (DORA)
• Charting Observability Research Report (Edge Delta)
• 2023 State of IaC Report (Firefly)
• Observability Survey 2023 (Grafana Labs)
• 2023 Software Artifact State of the Union (JFrog)
• What’s in Your Open-Source Software (Lineaje)
• 2023 Software Engineering Benchmarks Report (LinearB)
• 2023 Observability Forecast Report (New Relic)
• State of the API Report (Postman)
• Global State of API Security Report (Traceable AI)

3. Best DevOps-Related Video Series (video)

• DevOps Exchange YouTube Channel (DevOps Exchange)
• DevOps Toolkit (DevOps Toolkit)
• KubeSimplify (Kubesimplify)
• Saiyam Pathak (Kubesimplify)
• Ned in the Cloud’s Terraform Tuesday Series (Ned Bellevance)

4. Best DevOps-Related Audio Podcast Series

• The Modern Mainframe (BMC Software)
• 0800-DEVOPS Podcast by Ivan Krnic (CROZ)
• DevOps Paradox (DevOps Paradox)
• Let’s Get To The News (Kubernetes community)
• Dev Interrupted (LinearB)
• DevOps in Agile Way Podcast (Pawel Piwosz, DevOps Institute Ambassador)
• The MLSecOps Podcast (Protect AI)

5. Best DevOps Book/eBook of the Year

• Crafting a Mainframe Modernization Roadmap (Broadcom)
• Strategizing Continuous Delivery in the Cloud (Garima Bajpai , Thomas Schuetz)
• Redbook: Accelerate Mainframe Application Modernization with Hybrid Cloud (IBM)
• Industrial DevOps: Build Better Systems Faster by Dr. Suzette Johnson and Robin Yeman (IT Revolution Press)
• Beyond Agile Auditing: Three Core Components to Revolutionize Your Internal Audit Practices (IT Revolution)

6. Top DevOps Evangelist

• Sam Dion (National Bank of Canada)
• Garima Bajpai (Canada DevOps Community of Practice)
• Pawel Piwosz (Company or Community: DevOps Institute Ambassador)
• Amanda Lewis (DORA Community)
• Fatima Sarah Khalid (GitLab)
• Ayelet Sachto (Google)
• Richi Hartmann (Grafana Labs)
• Stephen Chin (JFrog)
• Eran Kinsbruner (Lightrun)
• Mayank Solanki (TataCliq)
• Viktor Farcic

7. Best DevOps Transformation (non-vendor)

• Informatica (Grafana Labs)
• Pera People Science B.V
• CGI Life and Health Insurance Agile and DevOps Team

8. Best DevOps Event of the Year

• DevOps World 2023 (CloudBees)
• DevOps Exchange
• GrafanaCON 2023 (Grafana Labs)
• swampUP (JFrog)
• Galaxy ’23 (LaunchDarkly)
• PASS Data Community Summit (Redgate Software)

9. Most Innovative DevOps Open Source Project

• Coder OS (Coder)
• AIaC (AI generator for infrastructure as code by Firefly.ai)
• Beyla (Grafana Labs)
• Jenkins
• Frogbot (JFrog)
• Galasa (Open Mainframe Project)
• OpenRewrite (OpenRewrite / Moderne)
• CNAPPgoat (Tenable Open Source)
• Terrascan (Tenable Open Source)

10. DevOps Executive of the Year (non-vendor)

• Garima Bajpai (Canada DevOps Community of Practice)
• Dan Rogers (LaunchDarkly)
• Idit Levine (Solo.io)
• Kavitha Srinivasulu (TCS)

11. Best DevOps Presentation of the Year

• Time to Rip Off the Training Wheels and Enable End-to-End Automation, a SHARE Atlanta 2023 presentation by Tony Anter and Mark Schettenhelm (BMC Software)
• Beyond Agile Auditing: The Path to a Better Audit Experience by Clarissa Lucas

12. Best DevOps.com Article of the Year

• Six Mainframe DevOps Predictions for 2023 (BMC Software)
• VS Code for Mainframe: The Enterprise Developer Tipping Point (Broadcom)
• Muneesh Sharma (Neem Consulting Ltd.)

DevOps Dozen Tools and Services Awards

1. Best End-to-End DevOps Tool/Service

• Bitrise
• Copado
• Harness Software Delivery Platform
• Morpheus v6.x
• The Netlify Platform
• PagerDuty Process Automation
• Sourcegraph’s Code AI Platform
• BMC AMI DevX
• Digital.ai AI-Powered DevSecOps Platform
• JFrog Software Supply Chain Platform
• Nethopper KAOPS
• Opsera Unified DevOps Platform
• Rootly
• Reliability Management

2. Best DevOps Repo/GitOps Tool/Service

• gitStream (LinearB)

3. Best CI/CD Tool

• Bitrise
• BMC AMI DevX Code Pipeline
• Buildkite Pipelines
• CircleCI
• CloudBees CI/CDRO
• Codefresh CI/CD Solution
• Copado
• Octopus Deploy
• OpsMx Secure CD

4. Best Value Stream Management Tool

• Allstacks Platform
• ValueOps by Broadcom
• Digital.ai’s Value Stream Management Tool
• LinearB
• Planview Value Stream Management

5. Best Observability Solution

• Apica
• BMC Helix Operations Management with AIOps
• Cribl Stream
• Grafana Cloud Free Tier
• Lightrun Observability Platform
• Memfault
• The New Relic All-In-One Observability Platform
• Observe
• StackState
• BMC AMI zAdviser Enterprise
• Cisco Observability Platform
• Edge Delta
• Honeycomb.io
• Logz.io Open 360™ Platform
• Mezmo Telemetry Pipeline
• Nobl9 Reliability Center
• SolarWinds Observability
• vFunction Architectural Observability Manager

6. Best DevSecOps Solution

• Broadcom SBOMz
• CodeSonar
• CodeSentry
• Dazz Remediation Cloud
• Digital.ai AI-Powered DevSecOps Platform
• GitLab
• Mend Application Security Platform by Mend.io
• Progress Chef
• DuploCloud DevOps Automation Platform
• Graylog
• JFrog Curation
• Lineaje AI with BOMbots
• Moderne
• ReversingLabs Software Supply Chain Security Platform
• Tanzu Application Platform
• Xygeni Software Supply Chain Security Solution

7. Best Testing Service/Tool

• Telepresence (Ambassador Labs)
• Applitools
• BMC AMI DevX Total Test
• Buildkite Test Analytics
• Copado
• Digital.ai Continuous Testing
• Sauce Labs / Sauce Orchestrate
• SonarQube
• Tricentis Mobile

8. Best Kubernetes Platform/Service

• BMC Helix Operations Management with AIOps
• Edge Delta
• Kalix
• Rafay Systems

9. Best Cloud-Native Security Solution/Service

• The Aqua Platform (Aqua Security)
• Axiomatics’ Orchestrated Authorization Solution
• Britive Identity Security Platform
• Cyera
• Dazz Remediation Cloud
• Fleet Endpoint Security Platform (Fleet Device Management, Inc.)
• JumpCloud Directory Platform
• The Orca Cloud Security Platform
• Sumo Logic SaaS Log Analytics Platform
• Sysdig Secure
• Tenable Cloud Security
• Tetrate Istio Subscription (TIS)

10. Best DevOps for Mainframe Solution

• BMC AMI DevX tool suite (BMC Software)
• Code4z (Broadcom)
• Wazi Deploy (IBM)
• PopUp Mainframe
• Rocket DevOps 10.2.2 (Rocket Software)

11. Best DevOps for DataOps/Database Solution

• BMC AMI DevOps for Db2® – BMC Software and BMC AMI SQL Performance for Db2® (BMC Software)
• Coalesce Data Transformation Platform
• Percona
• Flyway (Redgate Software)
• TDengine

12. Best New DevOps Tool/Service Provider

• Applause Crowdtesting Solution for DevOps Teams
• BMC AMI DevX Code Insights (BMC Software)
• BMC Helix ServiceOps, BMC Helix Operations Management with AIOps, BMC Helix ITSM
• Devtron
• Firefly Cloud Asset Management
• New Relic Grok
• PerfectScale Platform
• PopUp Mainframe
• Recommended Learning Paths (Security Journey)
• Sourcegraph’s AI coding assistant, Cody
• Tabnine Chat
• Vercel

Finalists were picked by the judges and based on which entry had the most nominations.

Voting for the winners in all 24 categories is now open to the public. To vote for the leaders, tools and companies you think are truly deserving of an award for their exceptional service to the DevOps community, please visit the DevOps Dozen² website.

Winners will be chosen from among the finalists, with general public voting weighted for 40% of the final score and our judges’ selections for 60% of the final score. The deadline for public voting is December 31 at 5:00 p.m. ET.

The winners will be announced at the Predict 2024 Virtual Summit on January 18, 2024, and will receive both digital badges and physical trophies celebrating their achievements.

Thanks to everyone who has supported the DevOps Dozen² Awards by nominating candidates and voting. Good luck to all the finalists!