Ideally, organizations should aim for developers to spend less than 10% of their time on IaC,
allowing them to focus primarily on application development.
Findings by Role
42%
of executives report significant IaC investment without the expected return.
57%
of executives cite consistency and the proliferation of tools as major issues.
46%
of developers view IaC as "a necessary evil that distracts from their core work."
More than half of developers dedicate more than
20%
of their time to IaC, with one in five developers spending over 30% of their time on these tasks.
75%
of infrastructure professionals are frustrated by others making changes to IaC.
67%
infrastructure stakeholders are more concerned with ownership, loss of knowledge, and the challenge of too many teams making untracked changes
Executive
Developer
Infrastructure Managers
Developer vs. Executive
Misalignments by the Numbers
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Developer/Infra
Executive
Still developing IaC expertise
Most infrastructure and development professionals consider their personal IaC expertise to be "a work in progress."
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High IaC self-assurance
Executive-level respondents are significantly more confident (44% responded "very knowledgeable") in their personal knowledge of IaC.
Prioritize IaC effectiveness
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Nearly half of all infrastructure and development professionals consider development teams place an emphasis on writing effective IaC.
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Prioritize IaC consistency
Executive-level respondents, in contrast, are concerned with maintaining consistency when writing IaC.
Spend 10 hours+ per week on IaC
Half of infrastructure and development professionals dedicate more than 20% of their time to IaC.
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Expect devs to spend less than 5 hours per week on IaC
Executive-level respondents say that organizations should aim for developers to spend less than 10% of their time on IaC, allowing them to focus primarily on application development.
Still developing IaC expertise
High IaC self-assurance
Most infrastructure and development professionals consider their personal IaC expertise to be "a work in progress."
Executive-level respondents are significantly more confident (44% responded "very knowledgeable") in their personal knowledge of IaC.
Prioritize IaC effectiveness
Prioritize IaC consistency
Nearly half of all infrastructure and development professionals consider development teams place an emphasis on writing effective IaC.
Executive-level respondents, in contrast, are concerned with maintaining consistency when writing IaC.
Spend 10 hours+ per week on IaC
Expect devs to spend less than 5 hours per week on IaC
Half of infrastructure and development professionals dedicate more than 20% of their time to IaC.
Executive-level respondents say that organizations should aim for developers to spend less than 10% of their time on IaC, allowing them to focus primarily on application development.
Respondents acknowledge a lack of IaC maturity despite recognizing its benefits.
There is a clear need for improvement and innovation, with 65% of current IaC adopters across executives, managers, and individual contributors expressing optimism about adopting new technologies to enhance infrastructure provisioning and application deployment.
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