We are very proud to announce the winners of the DevOps Dozen² Awards for 2021. For the past seven years, the DevOps Dozen² Awards have recognized the stars of the DevOps community. Over the years, we have expanded the scope of the awards to honor a dozen DevOps tools and services as well as a dozen of the DevOps community’s best and brightest.
Every year it gets harder to pick just one winner in each category. There are so many worthy contenders that even whittling down each category to six or seven finalists is difficult.
Once the finalists are selected in each category, things become even more challenging. My fellow judges (Mitchell Ashley, Jayne Groll, Helen Beal and John Willis) and I try to look at the popular vote and use that to guide us. But we are also very familiar with the space and try to make these awards more than just a popularity contest.
I know that might sound like a cliche, but it really is true—every one of the finalists in this year’s DevOps Dozen² Awards would have been a worthy recipient of the award in their category. Congratulations to all of them. You can see the complete list of finalists here.
However, as they said in the movie Highlander, “There can be only one.” Without further ado, I am pleased to announce the 2021 DevOps Dozen² Awards honorees:
DevOps Dozen Community Awards
Best DevOps Industry Implementation
City of Gainesville/Gainesville Regional Utilities
Best DevOps Survey/Analysis/Research
Best DevOps Related Video Series (Video)
DevOps Series (DevOps for IBM Z Media Center)
Best DevOps Related Podcast of the Year (Audio Only)
The POPcast, hosted by Dan “Pop” Papandrea
Best DevOps Books / eBook of the Year
A Beginner’s Guide to Observability by Splunk
Top DevOps Evangelist
Best DevOps Transformation (Non-Vendor)
Best DevOps Virtual Event of the Year
Most Innovative DevOps Open Source Project
DevOps Executive of the Year
Best DevOps Presentation of the Year
Best DevOps.com Article of the Year
Measuring Value Streams by Analyzing Flow Metrics by Jeff Keyes
DevOps Dozen Tools and Services Awards
Best End to End DevOps Tool/Service
Best DevOps Repo/GitOps Tool/Service
Best CI/CD Tool
Best Value Stream Management Tool
Best Observability Solution
Best DevSecOps Solution
Best Testing Service/Tool
Best Kubernetes Platform/Service
Best Cloud Native Security Solution/Service
Best DevOps for Mainframe Solution
Best DevOps for DataOps/Database Solution
The BMC AMI SQL Performance for Db2® Solution
Best New DevOps Tool/Service Provider
Winners will receive both digital and physical trophies and badges celebrating their achievements.
Many thanks to our panel of judges for making the hard calls and thank you to everyone who nominated candidates and cast votes. Thank you for supporting DevOps.com and the DevOps community.
For more information, please visit the 2021 DevOps Dozen² Awards website and stay tuned for the 2022 DevOps Dozen Awards which will begin nominations in late August 2022.
