• Debashis Bhattacharyya, Practice Lead, Technology Consultant, Opus Technologies
• Radhakrishnan Krishna Kripa, Lead DevOps Engineer, Ansys
• Venkata Rao Kondepati, Manager of Data Architecture & Engineering, Ascentt
• Sadiq Abubakar, Software Engineer and Founder, GldCart
• Kumar Singirikonda, Director of DevOps Engineering, Toyota
• Mihir Vora, Senior Distinguished Engineer, Capital One
• Romano Roth, Global Chief of Cybernetic Transformation, Zuhlke

Best staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud Article of the Year

• Explanation First, Then Code Conversion: A Practical Guide to Mainframe Optimization by Mark Schettenhelm
• Five Powerful Ways AI Is Transforming the DevOps Playbook by Dinesh Chacko

Best DevOps-Related Video or Audio Podcast

• The Modern Mainframe
• Inside Platform Engineering video podcast
• Deploy on Friday podcast

Best DevOps Survey/Research/Report

• 4th Annual Observability Survey by Grafana Labs
• 2025 DORA report: State of AI-assisted Software Development by Google Cloud
• Software Supply Chain State of the Union 2025 by JFrog
• State of Observability 2025 Report by Splunk
• Open Source Malware Index Q3 2025: High-Severity Attacks Surge by Sonatype
• The Platform Engineering Pulse Report by Octopus Deploy
• The State of GitOps Report by Octopus Deploy

Best DevOps Event of the Year

• DevOps for Gen AI Hackathon Series (Canada DevOps Community of Practice)
• DevOpsDays Zurich 2025
• IaCConf (Spacelift)
• GrafanaCON 2025 (Grafana Labs)
• swampUP (JFrog)
• cdCon (Continuous Delivery Foundation)
• SHIPPED25 (Octopus Deploy)

Best DevOps Book of the Year

• Docker and Kubernetes Security by Mohammad-Ali A’rabi
• Progressive Delivery: Build the Right Thing for the Right People at the Right Time by James Governor, Kim Harrison, Heidi Waterhouse, Adam Zimman
• The Phoenix Project Graphic Novel Volume 2 by Gene Kim and Mike Collins
• Intelligent Continuous Security by Marc Hornbeek
• The Cybernetic Enterprise by Romano Roth
• Argo CD Best Practices by Kostis Kapelonis
• DevEx as a service: Scaling DevOps teams with Platform Engineering by Matthew Casperson

Best Application of AI in Enterprise DevOps Practices

• AI Agents in DevOps by LPL Financial
• OpenSearch Conversational Automation for Releases (OSCAR)

Tools & Services Awards

Best Application of Generative AI in a DevOps Tool/Platform

• Moddy
• The PagerDuty Operations Cloud
• Postman Agent Mode
• Planview Anvi
• LaunchDarkly Platform (AI Configs)
• Octopus AI Assistant
• CodeRabbit’s AI Code Review Platform

Best New DevOps Tool

• Swagger Contract Testing
• Gomboc AI
• Azul Intelligence Cloud
• GitOps Cloud
• BMC AMI DevX Code Insights

Best DevOps for DataOps/Database Solution

• Redgate Flyway
• Harness Database DevOps
• SymmetricDS
• Liquibase Secure
• EDB Postgres® AI
• BMC AMI Data

Best DevOps for Mainframe Solution

• Liquibase Secure
• IBM Test Accelerator for Z
• BMC AMI DevX

Best Testing Service/Tool

• CircleCI
• Applause Payment Testing Solution
• Harness AI Test Automation (AI Test)
• TestSprite
• SonarQube
• Corellium Viper with MATRIX
• Zephyr
• Sauce Labs
• BMC AMI DevX Total Test

Best Platform Engineering Solution

• Temporal
• Komodor AI SRE Platform
• Harness Internal Developer Portal (IDP)
• ControlMonkey
• BlueFlag Security Platform
• Platform Hub

Best DevSecOps Solution

• Checkmarx One Assist
• Moderne
• Harness Cloud Web Application and API Protection (WAAP)
• Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP)
• Opsera Unified DevOps Platform, powered by Hummingbird AI
• Fastly Next-Gen WAF
• Liquibase Secure
• Sonatype AI Software Composition Analysis (SCA)
• Root.io
• BlueFlag Security Platform
• Gomboc AI

Best Observability Solution

• Apica Flow
• Grafana Cloud
• Observe Inc.
• Splunk Observability Cloud
• Honeycomb.io
• Chronosphere
• Catchpoint
• BMC AMI zAdviser

Best Supply Chain Security Solution

• Checkmarx One
• Chainguard Containers
• JFrog Platform

Top DevOps Vendor Evangelist

• Steve Fenton
• Matt Allford
• John Bristowe
• Anthony Anter

Best Application of Agentic AI in a DevOps Tool/Platform

• Kagent Enterprise
• Spacelift Intent
• GitLab Duo
• Opsera Hummingbird AI
• Harness AI
• JFrog Fly
• Mezmo Agentic AI SRE
• Copado DevOps Platform
• Sysdig Sage
• The Octopus MCP Server
• Grafana Assistant
• BMC AMI Assistant infused into BMC AMI DevX Code Insights

Best End-to-End DevOps Platform

• Opsera Unified DevOps Platform, powered by Hummingbird AI
• Harness
• The PagerDuty Operations Cloud
• CloudBees Unify
• ControlMonkey
• Octopus Deploy
• BMC AMI DevX
• Rocket DevOps

DevOps Industry Leader of the Year

• Jyoti Bansal (Harness)
• Shlomi Ben Haim (JFrog)
• Paul Stovell (Octopus Deploy)

Best DevOps Industry Implementation

• Scaling DevOps Compliance: Blackhawk Network’s Intelligent Change Automation Framework
• Operation Joined Arrows at FIS
• Freedom Mission: First Lunar Data Center, led by Lonestar Data Holdings Inc. in partnership with Phison Electronics Corp.

DevOps has never been only about tools. Progress happens when people, processes, and platforms line up and reinforce each other. A community evangelist who brings practitioners together can change how an organization builds and runs software. A platform that reduces friction can free teams to focus on solving real business problems. A stronger approach to supply chain security can raise the standard for every release that follows.

That is the common thread across this year’s finalists. They represent meaningful, practical progress in how we design, deliver, and secure software at scale.

Congratulations to all the DevOps Dozen 2025 finalists. Thank you for the work you do for this community and for the broader industry.

How Voting Works

With the finalists in place, it is now up to the community and our judges to decide the winners.

• Public voting is open across all categories.
• Final scores are a blend of community and judges: Community voting contributes 40%, judges’ evaluation contributes 60%.
• Voting closes on December 31, 2025.

To support the people, projects and vendors you believe had the biggest impact this year, head over to the DevOps Dozen Awards website and cast your vote.

Winners will be announced at the Predict 2026 Virtual Summit on January 15, 2026, and will receive both digital badges and physical trophies celebrating their achievements.

Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to support the DevOps Dozen Awards by nominating candidates and voting. Good luck to all the finalists!