What the 2024 China DevOps & BizDevOps Survey Reveals About XOps Trends
The 2024 XOps Industry Innovation Forum in Beijing unveiled the China DevOps & BizDevOps State Survey, revealing that over 6,300 enterprises participated, with more than 60% adopting agile practices, 83% using containers or VMs, and a growing focus on automation, testing, and BizDevOps transformation across diverse sectors.
2024 XOps Industry Innovation Forum Highlights
The XOps conference organized by the XOps Committee was held on July 25, 2024 in Beijing, featuring the theme “Research Excellence and Intelligent Operations”. Two sub‑forums focused on high‑quality development and smart operations.
During the event, He Baohong, chair of the China Communications Standards Association Internet & Application Technology Working Committee (TC1), released the “China DevOps & BizDevOps State Survey (2024)” and provided an in‑depth analysis.
The survey collected 6,388 valid responses from more than 60 enterprises, covering industries such as Internet, finance, telecom, manufacturing, academia and research. Over 60% of respondents work in R&D, 20% in operations, and 11% are architects or security experts. Companies with over 100 staff account for more than 70% of participants.
Key findings include:
Agile adoption exceeds 90% of organizations, with 66.4% reporting improved development efficiency.
More than 50% of teams conduct daily code reviews and merge to the main branch.
Containers (83.76%) and virtual machines (83.5%) dominate infrastructure choices.
Continuous integration (44.93%) and continuous delivery (45.49%) are widely practiced; 23.73% have dedicated CI teams.
Automated testing is expanding: 62.22% automate security testing, and test‑left shift reduces testing time to under 30% of iteration cycles for over half of enterprises.
Micro‑service frameworks such as Spring Boot (21.93%) and Spring Cloud (18.52%) are increasingly used.
BizDevOps transformation is underway in more than 80% of companies, with 16.36% achieving mature integration.
Low‑code/No‑code platforms are adopted by 53.44% and 35.03% of organizations respectively.
More than half of firms consider improving development and delivery efficiency the primary goal of DevOps adoption.
Talent shortage is the biggest pain point, with 54.82% lacking experienced DevOps experts.
The report emphasizes that XOps provides a comprehensive framework for IT operation transformation, enabling cost reduction, stability, security, and cross‑team collaboration.
To obtain the full report, readers are invited to follow the “CAICT Digital Governance” public account and reply with “DevOps” to receive a download link (available until August 15).
For further inquiries, contact Liu (13021060029) or Bai (15910769206).
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