GitLab named a Leader in the 2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant for DevOps Platforms

Gartner® named GitLab as a Leader at the top of the Ability to Execute axis in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for DevOps Platforms

DevOps platforms are emerging as a simpler alternative to DevOps toolchains, providing organizations with a consolidated set of integrated capabilities. DevOps platforms are increasingly becoming a means to accelerate the delivery of customer value across software engineering teams.

What is DevOps platform?

Gartner defines a DevOps platform as “those that provide fully integrated capabilities to enable continuous delivery of software using Agile and DevOps practices.

These capabilities run the gamut of the software development life cycle (SDLC) and include product planning, version control, continuous integration, test automation, continuous deployment, release orchestration, automating security and compliance policies, monitoring, and observability.

DevOps platforms support team collaboration, secure software development and measurement of software delivery metrics.“

DevOps platforms simplify creation, maintenance and management of the components required for delivery of modern software applications.

The prebuilt integration between different components of the platform reduces cognitive load and leads to improved visibility, auditability and traceability into the software development value stream. This end-to-end view encourages a systems thinking mindset and accelerates feedback loops.

Organizations use DevOps platforms to minimize tool friction resulting from complex toolchains, manual handoffs and lack of consistent visibility throughout the SDLC. This enables product teams to deliver faster customer value without compromising quality.

The DevOps platforms market reflects the consolidation of technologies across development, security, infrastructure and operations to streamline software delivery.

Standards of DevOps platforms according to Gartner's assessment

Gartner's report – Magic Quadrant for DevOps Platforms is based on a variety of use cases, including but not limited to:

• Agile software delivery - operationalize Agile development practices
• Mobile app delivery - build/test/deliver native mobile and mobile web applications
• Edge computing scenarios — support for secure delivery/update for IoT/edge devices
• Regulatory requirements — support for compliance, auditing, traceability and governance
• Cloud-native application delivery — build and deliver cloud-native applications across hybrid and multicloud environments
• Platform engineering — provide self-service, internal developer platforms to scale DevOps and software engineering practices

A DevOps platform must have standard capabilities for this market including:

• Continuous integration (CI) — native support for continuously building code, orchestrating verification and validation functions (test automation, security and compliance scans)
• Continuous delivery and release orchestration — continuous deployment (no gates) as well as release orchestration with gated approval mechanisms (e.g., to meet regulatory requirements or organizations transitioning from ITIL)
• Integrated platform for secure development, team collaboration and visualization of development workflows with a unified dashboard across multiple user personas
• Value stream analytics to measure the flow of work as well as the flow of value across the complete software delivery value stream (e.g., flow metrics, DORA metrics)
• Secure software delivery — support for orchestrating security functions as an integral part of the SDLC

The optional capabilities for this market include:

• Product planning — managing features and defects, roadmapping, and backlog management, including Agile development methods such as Kanban and Scrum.
• Source control repository, artifact registry, internal developer portal and integrated development environments (IDEs)
• Software test automation — support for executing functional and nonfunctional tests, test case management, code coverage analysis, performance testing, chaos testing, fuzz testing, penetration testing, and automated acceptance testing
• Configuration automation — support for environment management, including infrastructure provisioning, configuration management and drift detection
• Application monitoring and observability — support for monitoring and observability to improve service-level objectives; gathering production telemetry (logs, metrics, events, traces) and support for automated incident response

Magic Quadrant for DevOps platform

Leaders in Gartner's report are products/companies with a deep understanding of the DevOps platform market. They have a strong track record of execution and can influence the direction of the market with their thought leadership and resources.

Leaders also have a clear vision and well-defined product roadmap. They continuously expand their capabilities to deliver functionally rich platforms with robust capabilities at all stages of the SDLC.

These vendors stand out in a highly competitive, global market, and serve a wide range of organizations and use cases.

The most distinctive attribute of Leaders in this market is their versatility across multiple dimensions. These dimensions include native support for a range of critical capabilities across the SDLC, as well as support for diverse use cases.

Leaders should also have the ability to meet the needs of multiple personas across different teams (such as development, operations and site reliability engineering).

They should also have a strong market penetration across geographies, verticals and organizations of all sizes, and possess a vibrant developer community and thriving partner ecosystem.

Leaders are well-positioned to remain dominant as the DevOps platform market evolves. In this rapidly changing market, however, vendors that lose focus could fall out of the Leaders quadrant.

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