Each year DevOps World | Jenkins World is bigger and better than the year before. This means the announcements at the show also continue to evolve to keep pace with the rate of innovation. With the tremendous growth in DevOps adoption, the event will highlight the contributions of industry leaders and provide insight for attendees to better optimize their DevOps transformations. This year’s conference, taking place Sept. 16-19 in San Francisco and aptly themed “TRANSFORM,” will showcase the ways organizations are transforming software delivery, adopting DevOps and returning business value to their organization from DevOps initiatives.

CloudBees has already released two big pieces of news for DevOps World | Jenkins World: The first is the name change from simply Jenkins World to denote the inclusion of the larger software development industry, while the second is the addition of a conference in Nice, France, to reach the global community of DevOps practitioners.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Although most news is top secret until the event, there will be plenty of exciting announcements coming out of DevOps World | Jenkins World from CloudBees, sponsors and the Jenkins community. Attendees will experience keynote presentations on Tuesday, Sept. 18, where all the latest from both CloudBees and the Jenkins project will be announced. This will include news around the growing trend of “as-code,” collaboration between CloudBees and the Jenkins community and serverless capabilities. All announcements will underscore how organizations can adopt modern technology and infrastructure automation processes for accelerated software delivery.

Along with CloudBees-specific and industry announcements, Dr. Nicole Forsgren, co-founder, CEO and chief scientist at DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA), will keynote the conference in San Francisco this year. In addition to her keynote, “The Data Behind DevOps: What Does it Take to Be a High Performer?,” which will cover insights into the key leadership, technical, architectural and product capabilities that drive these outcomes, she will also be hosting a session, “Leading Through Change,” which explores the aspects of leadership that drive successful outcomes.

Additionally, DevOps World | Jenkins World San Francisco will boast more than 100 sessions this year. With a variety of industry experts covering everything from security, pipeline automation and containers to DevOps adoption and continuous delivery best practices, here’s a few sessions you won’t want to miss:

• Mission Possible: Eliminating DevOps Security Roadblocks — Jason Vanderhoof of Cyberark will share practical insights into addressing the security challenges with secrets, access keys and credentials, as well as how to reduce over-privilege and eliminate secret duplication
• Apply Lean Principles to Accelerate Agile + DevOps — Chris Condo, senior analyst at Forrester, will present market trends and data that back up these observations.
• Taming the Beast: Using Data to Improve Jenkins Pipeline — Jeff Pearce of GoDaddy will explore the lessons from early attempts at monitoring, best practices and how he built a Jenkins plugin to monitor pipelines, gathering the data needed to tame the beast.
• Bumps, Bruises and Bandaids: Real-World Lessons from Practitioners – In this panel, DevOps industry practitioners from Medallia, Red Hat, Intuit and Electronic Arts will share nitty-gritty details of their DevOps stumbles, the lessons they learned as a result and how they were able to course correct.

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— Heidi Gilmore