We are excited to announce the finalists for the DevOps Dozen² Awards 2022, celebrating the greatest innovators and their achievements in the DevOps space. These individuals and companies have taken an active role in the DevOps community, demonstrating their leadership and commitment to the improvement of our industry in the past year.Â
Congratulations to every one of the finalists. All of your hard work and dedication are greatly appreciated.
Without further ado, here are the finalists for the DevOps Dozen² Awards 2022:
DevOps Dozen Community Awards
1. Best DevOps Industry Implementation
- Bendigo and Adelaide Bank DevOps Service
- Inspide Portall
- Natura&Co
- OJA DevOps Transformation and Implementation
- Workday Enterprise Management Cloud
2. Best DevOps Survey/Analysis/Research
- 2022 Developer-Led Landscape Report
- 2022 Observability Forecast Report
- 2022 State of Engineering Management Report
- CircleCI’s 2022 State of Software Delivery
- DigitalOcean Currents
- GitLab 2022 Global DevSecOps Survey
- LaunchDarkly 2022 Survey
- State of APIs Developer Survey Report
- State of Pentesting Report for 2022
- CloudBees Global C-Suite Security Survey
3. Best DevOps-Related Video Series (video)
4. Best DevOps-Related Audio Podcast Series
- DevOps Paradox
- Grafana’s Big Tent
- Technology Conversations
- The Modern Mainframe Podcast
- The People Behind your Favorite Apps
5. Best DevOps Book/eBook of the Year
- A Frontend Web Developer’s Guide to Testing
- A Radical Enterprise
- Amir and the Magical Lens
- Feature Management with LaunchDarkly
- Investments Unlimited
- Purple Book
- The Book On DevOps
6. Top DevOps Evangelist
- Brian Reed
- Ayelet Sachto
- Brendan O’Leary
- Chris Eng
- Cody De Arkland
- Dan Garfield
- Eran Kinsbruner
- Garima Bajpai
- Kavitha Srinivasulu
- Renzo Petri
- Richard “RichiH” Hartmann
- Viktor Farcic
7. Best DevOps Transformation (non-vendor)
8. Best DevOps Event of the Year
9. Most Innovative DevOps Open Source Project
- Backstage
- CherryBomb
- CloudNativePG
- TerraCognita by Cycloid
- Solo.io Istio Ambient Mesh
- k0s (K Zeroes)
- Kyverno
- Lens
- Mimir
- MinIO
- ShardingSphere
- Wazuh
10. DevOps Executive of the Year (non-vendor)
- Chris Wright
- Deepak Selvaraj
- Edith Harbaugh
- Idit Levine
- Jim Rose
- Jyoti Bansal
- Marco Palladino
- Nick Durkin
- Raj Dutt
- Renzo Petri
- Sanjay Singh
- Trista Pan
11. Best DevOps Presentation of the Year
- “A Distributed Intelligence Vision for the Electric Grid” by Dwayne Bradley
- “Journey from 100’s of Pipelines to a Single Pipeline Ecosystem” by Ali Ravji and Prashant Parekh
12. Best DevOps.com Article of the Year
DevOps Dozen Tools and Services Awards
1. Best End-to-End DevOps Tool/Service
- Broadcom DevOps Suite
- CloudBees Platform
- Codefresh
- Contrast Secure Code Platform
- Copado Platform
- Digital.ai  AI-Powered DevOps Platform
- DuploCloud
- Harness Software Delivery Platform
- Incredibuild Platform
- Kong Konnect
- Opsera Continuous Orchestration Platform
- Pagerduty
2. Best DevOps Repo/GitOps Tool/Service
3. Best CI/CD Tool
- BMC Compuware ISPW solution
- CircleCI
- CloudBees CI
- Continuous Machine Learning (CML)
- Copado Platform
- GitKraken CI/CD for Jira
- Harness Software Delivery Platform
- LaunchDarkly
- Octopus Deploy
- OpsMx Intelligent Software Delivery Platform
- Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines
4. Best Value Stream Management Tool
- Allstacks Platform
- BMC Compuware zAdviser
- CloudBees Platform
- ConnectALL
- Digital.ai Value Streaming Management
- ValueOps from Broadcom
- ZenHub
5. Best Observability Solution
- AppDynamics Cloud
- CodeLogic
- Cribl Stream
- CrowdStrike Falcon LogScale
- Grafana LGTM
- Lumigo Platform
- New Relic CodeStream
- Nobl9 Platform
- SolarWinds® Observability
- Splunk Observability Cloud
- StackState
- The Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform
6. Best DevSecOps Solution
- Aqua Platform
- Arnica
- Bionic Application Security Posture Management
- CloudBees Compliance
- CrowdStrike Cloud Security (CNAPP)
- Cycode
- DHA Ektropy
- DuploCloud
- Enso Security
- Grammatech CodeSentry
- Grammatech CodeSonar
- Graylog Operations
- JFrog Advanced Security
- Legit Security Platform
- NowSecure Platform
- Opsera Continuous Orchestration Platform
- ReversingLabs
- Secure Code Warrior Learning Platform
- StrongDM™ People-First Access Platform
- The Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform
- ThreatModeler Platform
- Veracode Continuous Software Security Platform
- Vulcan Enterprise
7. Best Testing Service/Tool
- Applause Platform
- BMC Compuware Topaz for Total Test solution
- Cobalt’s Agile Pentesting
- Delphix DevOps Data Platform
- Deque Platform
- Digital.ai Continuous Testing
- Katalon Platform
- LaunchDarkly
- Leapwork Platform
8. Best Kubernetes Platform/Service
- Solo.io Gloo Platform
- Kalix Platform
- Kasten by Veeam®
- Palette Edge Platform
- Rafay Kubernetes Operation Platform
- Red Hat OpenShift
- StormForge Optimize Live
9. Best Cloud-Native Security Solution/Service
- Aqua Platform
- Axiomatics Platform
- Bionic Application Security Posture Management
- CrowdStrike Falcon Platform
- Deepfactor
- Ermetic
- Legit Security Platform
- Orca Platform
- Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security
- Slim Platform
- ThreatModeler Platform
- TrilioVault for Kubernetes
10. Best DevOps for Mainframe Solution
11. Best DevOps for DataOps/Database Solution
- Apollo GraphQL
- BMC AMI DevOps for Db2
- Broadcom Zowe DBM-Db2 CL
- DataStax’s Astra DB
- Decodable
- EDB BigAnimal
- Liquibase
- Percona Platform
- Redis Enterprise
- TDengine™ 3.0
- TigerGraph Machine Learning Workbench
12. Best New DevOps Tool/Service Provider
- ArmorCode AppSecOps Platform
- Astra Streaming
- Bionic Application Security Posture Management
- BMC Compuware zAdviser DORA Metrics dashboard
- CodeSec by Contrast Security
- Fiberplane
- Firefly CloudOps
- GitKraken CI/CD for Jira
- Inigo Platform
- Jellyfish Benchmarks
- Rezilion Platform
- vFunction Platform
Finalists were picked by the judges and based on which entry had the most nominations. All finalists will receive a badge to display on their website and social media with a link to the voting/survey site.
Voting for the winners in all 24 categories is now open to the public. To vote for the leaders, tools and companies you think are truly deserving of an award for their exceptional service to the DevOps community, please visit the DevOps Dozen² website.
Winners will be chosen from among the finalists, with general public voting weighted for 40% of the final score and our judges’ selections for 60% of the final score. The deadline for public voting is December 31 at 5:00 p.m. ET.
The winners will be announced at the Predict 2023 Virtual Summit on January 12, 2023, and will receive both digital badges and physical trophies celebrating their achievements.
Thanks to everyone who has supported the DevOps Dozen² Awards by nominating candidates and voting. Good luck to all the finalists!
