As the times ahead mark an unprecedented shift towards hybrid cloud, multi-cloud, and cross-cloud solutions, the cloud-native ecosystem will extend and expand across industry verticals. The adoption of Kubernetes will become a mainstay while barriers to the adoption of serverless computing will lift, making it even more accessible to DevOps. 

A carryover from previous years, the question of security will persist on everyone’s minds. CISO and DevOps across the board will be left with no choice but to take a bird’s eye view into securing their microservices, APIs, and software supply chains with utmost resolve. New and emerging security tools, best practices, regulations, frameworks, and solutions will simplify DevOps to advance their methodology to the next level of DevSecOps, where taking a “security-first” approach becomes paramount.