97%
93%
13%
97%

Of respondents report difficulties with IaC.

Top concerns include enforcing consistent configurations across all environments (56%) and managing multiple tools, which can lead to steep learning curves and compatibility issues (54%).

93%

Agree that innovation is needed to make IaC faster and more streamlined.

When asked to rate their satisfaction with the benefits delivered by IaC, most respondents expressed a desire for improvement.

13%

Of organizations report achieving IaC maturity.

That means 87% of respondents consider their company's use of IaC as immature. 

Findings by Role

Executive Developer Infrastructure Managers

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42% of executives report significant IaC investment without the expected return.

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57% of executives cite consistency and the proliferation of tools as major issues.

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46% of developers view IaC as "a necessary evil that distracts from their core work."

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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.

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75% of infrastructure professionals are frustrated by others making changes to IaC.

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67% infrastructure stakeholders are more concerned with ownership, loss of knowledge, and the challenge of too many teams making untracked changes

Developer vs. Executive Misalignments by the Numbers

Developer/Infra
60%

Most infrastructure and development professionals consider their personal IaC expertise to be "a work in progress."

Executive
44%

Executive-level respondents are significantly more confident (44% responded "very knowledgeable") in their personal knowledge of IaC.

Developer/Infra
Executive
60%

Most infrastructure and development professionals consider their personal IaC expertise to be "a work in progress."

44%

Executive-level respondents are significantly more confident (44% responded "very knowledgeable") in their personal knowledge of IaC.

Most Devs Spend One Full Day Per Week on IaC

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Ideally, organizations should aim for developers to spend less than 10% of their time on IaC, allowing them to focus primarily on application development.

However, more than half of developers that work with IaC are spending at least one entire day of their work week provisioning and deploying IaC. For 1 in 5 devs, IaC takes up a third of their time!

65%

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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