Nominations are open through October 17 for the DevOps Dozen 2025 Awards, honoring outstanding achievements and contributions in the DevOps community.
Boca Raton, FL, September 8, 2025 — Techstrong Group, the power source for people and technology, today announced that nominations are open for the DevOps Dozen 2025 Awards, celebrating the individuals, organizations, tools, and services driving excellence in DevOps. The program features 24 categories across Community Awards (9) and Tools & Services Awards (15).
“The DevOps Dozen are not about trophies or vanity. They are about momentum and validation. These awards honor the people, practices, and products that shaped the community and moved it forward over the past year,” said Alan Shimel, Founder and CEO, Techstrong Group.
This year, Agentic AI and Generative AI each get their own category, while Platform Engineering has a dedicated slot as the practice matures from trend to table stakes. Supply Chain Security Solution also earns standalone recognition, reflecting how software integrity, attestations and provenance have shifted from ‘nice to have’ to ‘non-negotiable.’
Important Dates
- Nominations close: October 17, 2025
- Finalists announced and public voting opens: November 10, 2025
- Public voting closes: December 31, 2025
- Winners announced: January 2026 at the Predict 2026 Virtual Summit
Awards Process and Eligibility
There are no nomination fees in the Community Awards category, though commercial vendors are not eligible for the following three: Top DevOps Community Evangelist, DevOps Enterprise Leader of the Year, and Best Application of AI in Enterprise DevOps Practices. Tools & Services Award nominations carry a $300 fee to ensure serious entries and discourage spam. Fees are refunded for those not advancing to the finals. Vendors may nominate themselves.
Public voting will account for 40% of each winner’s total, while judges’ scores will account for 60%. There is a limit for finalists at 10 per Tools & Services category to keep the field competitive and focused.
DevOps Dozen 2025 Awards Categories
Tools & 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. - DevOps Industry Leader of the Year
Tool & Service providers play a critical role in bringing innovative tools, platforms and services to the market. This award recognizes a strong Tools & Services leader who guides their company through the challenges of developing and bringing to market innovative DevOps technologies and services. - 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 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 Generative AI in a DevOps Tool/Platform (Updated for 2025)
Generative AI is transforming DevOps by automating tasks, improving code quality, and enhancing efficiency. It leverages AI models to generate code, automate deployments, and streamline workflows, ultimately leading to faster development cycles and more robust software. This award honors the best use of Generative AI in a DevOps Tool or Platform. - Best application of Agentic AI in a DevOps Tool/Platform (Added for 2025)
Agentic AI refers to autonomous AI capabilities in a DevOps tool or service that can plan, reason, and act to complete DevOps tasks with minimal human oversight. This involves perception, decision-making, and execution, creating a value stream lifecycle where the AI agent interacts with the DevOps environment. This award honors the best use of Agentic AI in a DevOps Tool or Platform. - Best DevSecOps Solution
This award honors the best DevSecOps solution, which enables security to be included earlier and continuously throughout the SDLC. - Best Supply Chain Security Solution (Added for 2025)
Software supply chain security refers to the measures taken to protect the integrity and security of software throughout its entire development and delivery lifecycle, from initial code to final deployment. This award honors the best solution for ensuring that the software is trustworthy and hasn’t been tampered with at any point in its journey. - 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 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
A DevOps services provider helps organizations implement and manage DevOps practices through consulting, implementation, and ongoing support. Typically they offer a range of services, including DevOps consulting, CI/CD pipeline implementation, infrastructure automation, and DevSecOps services, to streamline software development and delivery. This award recognizes a service provider that excels in delivering quality services to the DevOps community.
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.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. - 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 Community Evangelist (No vendor nominees)
Every community has those who stand out as leaders in their field who spread the DevOps gospel every day. This award recognizes the individual whom peers in the DevOps community recognize for outstanding leadership, knowledge, and communication. - DevOps Enterprise Leader of the Year (No vendor nominees)
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 Survey/ Research/Report (Updated for 2025)
Ongoing research in the application of DevOps tracks trends and provides standards that organizations can use to measure themselves. This award recognizes industry research, reporting and analysis that has significantly and positively impacted the DevOps community. - 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 Enterprise DevOps Practices (No vendor nominees)
Leading enterprises are integrating the use of AI within their DevOps practices at an incredible pace. This award recognizes the organization that has applied AI in the most interesting and productive way to accelerate and improve various aspects of software delivery, leading to increased efficiency, higher quality, and faster time-to-market.
Finalists receive badges and recognition across the Techstrong network; winners receive trophies and the full spotlight they’ve earned.
For more information about award categories and nomination forms, please visit the DevOps Dozen website. For questions regarding entry process, timing, or technical issues, please contact us at DD@devops.com.
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