Data from Harness, a company which offers Continuous Delivery-as-a-Service details the effort and cost involved in building and deploying new applications, including which tools developers prefer, the cost of each deployment and how frequently deployments fail.

In its Continuous Delivery Insights 2020 Harness reveals that while many organizations are modernizing their DevOps practices in search of agility and speed, the vast majority are still held back by immature development practices and runaway costs. 

The data the report is based on was collected from over 100 corporations across multiple industries as part of Harness's sales process, Specifically it derives from Continuous Delivery Capability Assessments which help Harness create business cases and map deployment maturity. 

This infographic summarizes the major findings with regard to medium performing organizations, It reveals Continuous Delivery performance metrics that were observed as the Average and the Median.

 Conclusions to be drawn from this are:

• Code deployments take too long
  On average, companies deploy code to production every 4 days (with a median time of 10 days). These deployments take an average of 8 hours.

• Production costs are excessive
  Production deployment cost represents the cost of total time spent by every person working to deploy a new artifact into production..Annual Cost of Deployment represents the total number of production deployments per year for each customer divided by the total effort spent throughout their deployment pipeline to get a new artifact successfully into production. The average cost works out at $109K per app.

On average, 11% of deployments fail. In response to such failures 85% of companies have a rollback strategy versus 15% of companies that choose to “roll-forward.” Rollback is the process of deploying the last working version and an average of 60 minutes was observed for manual roll back, rising to 4 hours in worst case scenarios, during which time customers may be experiencing glitches or outages.

With regard to tools, 71% of respondents use Jenkins for building and pipelines. Other popular tools include Jira for change management (76%);  AWS for cloud deployments (65%) and Selenium for QA and testing (63%).

In conclusion Harness recommends:

To increase deployment frequency teams must move to a selfservice Continuous Delivery model where developers deploy ondemand, and pipelines are streamlined so new artifacts can be pushed to production in under an hour.

To achieve this deployment pipelines need to become smarter and less reliant on people or scripts. In addition, a modern pipeline needs to orchestrate and automate QA tests, governance, deployment, verification and rollback. Without a truly ‘hands off’ approach Continuous Delivery will remain a pipe dream for most corporations.

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Continuous Delivery Insights 2020

Harness

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