Docker has released its 2024 State of Application Development Report, providing an overview of current application development, along with insights into various DevOps trends.

General findings in the report include:

• Nearly 80% use containers in application development.
• 51% work on microservices-based applications.
• 36% of respondents said their main development environment is remote, pointing to the growing popularity of developing software in the cloud.

When asked where they primarily use containers, respondents cited:

• Development (76%)
• Deployment and testing (65% each)
• Production (61%)

The survey also asked about security-related tasks, security tools, and which roles or teams focus on software security at their organization.

“Fixing vulnerabilities is clearly a key responsibility that is shouldered by many different individuals within an organization; it was the top security task reported by back-end, front-end, and fullstack developers, DevOps and platform engineers, and most security-focused roles (e.g., Security Manager, DevSecOps),” the report states. Specific security-related tasks include:

• Fixing vulnerabilities common security tasks (49%)
• Running security scans (34%)
• Dealing with the scan results (32%)
• Monitoring security incidents (30%)
• Logging data analysis (26%)

Regarding security tools they use, respondents cited:

• SonarQube (24%)
• AWS Security Hub (20%)
• Snyk (18%)
• JFrog (15%)
• Docker Scout (14%)

Read the complete report at Docker.
 
 
 
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