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Opsera Report Highlights DevOps Challenges Created by AI Coding Tools

An analysis published today by Opsera, a provider of a DevOps platform, finds that while adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) coding tools has increased developer productivity they also create more duplicate code, resulting in 15 to 18% more security vulnerabilities per line of code compared to code created by a human developer.

Overall, the Opsera report finds 90% of the enterprise organizations it was able to analyze have adopted AI coding tools, with AI-assisted workflows, on average, achieving a 48–58% faster time-to-pull request (PR). However, AI-generated pull requests wait 4.6x longer for review than pull requests created by human developers, the report finds.

Vishnu Vasudevan, chief product officer at Opsera, said the report makes it clear that while developers are becoming more productive they are both creating new DevOps bottlenecks and aggravating existing issues as the number of pipelines being created continues to increase.

Unless DevOps teams find ways to address those issues the rate at which code is being developed will prove unsustainable as the overall amount of technical debt being added continues to increase, he added.

In theory, DevOps teams could in the short term make more efficient use of existing pipelines to address that issue but compliance mandates in regulatory industries require DevOps teams to have a distinct isolated pipeline for every repository, noted Vasudevan. Those organizations will find it especially challenging to cope with the volume of code that is only going to continue to exponentially increase as more code is pushed through a single pipeline, said Vasudevan.

Despite those sustainability concerns, organizations continue to invest in AI coding tools. A recent survey conducted by the Futurum Group finds organizations plan to increase investment in generative artificial intelligence (AI) (40%), followed closely by AI and machine learning (ML) technologies (39%) and applying AI to IT operations (37%), also known as AIOps, over the next 12 to 18 months. The top areas of investment over the same period are AI Copilot/AI code tools (38%), AI agent development (37%), AI-assisted testing (37%) followed closely by DevOps (37%), automated deployment (34%), software security testing (31%).

On one level the impact AI coding tools are having on DevOps pipelines is not entirely unexpected. Many of those pipelines were inefficient long before AI coding tools arrived. However, to truly increase productivity to the point where more applications are actually being built and deployed it’s apparent more AI will need to be applied to DevOps workflows. The degree to which organizations are ready to apply AI to those workflows, however, varies widely. In many cases, DevOps teams are simply encountering the same bottlenecks faster, only more frequently and at higher levels of scale.

Eventually, most organizations will be able to apply AI to reduce those bottlenecks but there will for the foreseeable future be a need for a software engineer to orchestrate workflows and validate outputs. The only thing that remains to be seen is to what degree DevOps engineers may be able to rely on AI agents to manage codebases at a level of scale that not too long ago would have seemed unimaginable.

January 29, 2026
Opsera Leverages AI to Simplify DevOps Platform Migrations

Opsera is leveraging a generative artificial intelligence (AI) model it built to enable DevOps teams to migrate from one platform to another.

Gregg Holtzrichter, chief marketing officer for Opsera, said the Hummingbird AI model makes it simpler to migrate source code from, for example, a Bitbucket on-premises continuous integration/continuous development (CI/CD) platform to GitHub.

Opsera originally developed Hummingbird as an orchestration engine that integrates DevOps workflows spanning multiple tools and platforms. The primary goal is to make it possible for DevOps teams to unify their workflows, said Holtzrichter.

At the same time, Opsera is now making it possible to leverage a generative AI model to reverse engineer the source code a DevOps team may have developed to extend the capabilities of a specific platform. That new code then makes it possible to significantly reduce the total cost of switching DevOps platforms, said Holtzrichter. As part of such an effort, Opsera is also now providing support for organizations looking to specifically migrate to GitHub Copilot and GitHub Actions.

It’s not clear how many DevOps teams might be looking to switch platforms, but with the rise of generative AI capabilities for writing code, interest in platforms such as GitHub has increased, noted Holtzrichter. In addition, support for platforms such as the on-premises edition of Bitbucket is being sunsetted by Atlassian as part of an effort to drive more customers toward the cloud edition of the CI/CD platform.

Regardless of the underlying platforms involved, generative AI promises to reduce the ability of any vendor to lock customers into a specific platform. As DevOps teams extended DevOps platforms over the past decade, many of them have discovered that the integrations they created and maintained made it all but impossible to switch platforms. With the ability to refactor much of that code based on the insights surfaced by the Opsera platform using generative AI, the time and effort required to switch platforms has been substantially reduced, noted Holtzrichter.

At its core, Opsera makes it possible to apply analytics to DevOps workflows as they become more complex. The number of dependencies that exist between various application modules, for example, makes it exceedingly difficult for DevOps teams to manually identify the impact a delay in one project might have on any number of other downstream projects.

The Opsera platform surfaces that intelligence by scanning all repositories and branches, including commit history and generating alerts and notifications whenever KPI thresholds or compliance requirements are exceeded. DevOps teams can also use the platform to assess their overall DevOps maturity using, for example, the DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) metrics defined by Google. In addition, many organizations are keen to discover what best practices should be adopted by other application development teams.

Now that AI is being applied to that analytics capability, it’s become possible to extend the reach of the Ospera platform beyond analytics to include source code migration. Each organization will still need to determine whether such an effort is worth the remaining time and effort still required, but at the very least, most DevOps teams can take comfort in the fact they can now keep their options a lot more open.

December 19, 2023
Opsera Brings DevOps Intelligence to GitHub Actions

Opsera today announced it has extended its platform for collecting DevOps intelligence to include support for the GitHub Actions continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform.

Opsera CEO Kumar Chivukula said as GitHub Actions is adopted more widely, there is a growing need to provide greater visibility into Git-based workflows in real-time. A GitHub Actions Insights module for the Opsera platform makes it possible to track key performance indicators (KPIs) across those workflows, he added.

The goal is to make it simpler to make data-driven decisions about how best to optimize those workflows by identifying bottlenecks, noted Chivukula.

The Opsera platform surfaces that intelligence by scanning all repositories and branches, including commit history, and generating alerts and notifications whenever KPI thresholds or compliance requirements are exceeded. DevOps teams can also use the platform to assess their overall DevOps maturity using a set of DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) metrics defined by Google. Going forward, Opsera also plans to start surfacing metrics based on the Supply chain Levels for Software Artifacts (SLSA) framework for securing software supply chains also defined by Google.

Platforms such as Opsera make it possible to apply analytics to DevOps workflows as they become more complex. The number of dependencies that exist between various application modules, for example, makes it exceedingly difficult for DevOps teams to manually identify the impact a delay in one project might have on any number of other downstream projects.

In addition, many organizations are keen to discover what best practices should be adopted by other application development teams.

Finally, many developers tend to use a repository as a dumping ground for all kinds of software artifacts, noted Chivukula. DevOps teams need an intelligence tool that makes it possible to identify which of those artifacts are the most essential to the business, he added. Otherwise, manually combing through a repository looking for artifacts becomes the DevOps equivalent of looking for a needle in a haystack, noted Chivukula.

GitOps is essentially a more opinionated approach to DevOps that relies on an instance of the open source Git repository as the single source of truth about the environment rather than a set of application or server configuration files. GitHub views GitOps as a means of extending a code repository into the realm of DevOps workflows using the GitHub Actions platform. It’s not clear how much traction GitHub Actions is gaining at the expense of other CI/CD platforms, but for organizations that are relatively new to DevOps and already using GitHub as a code repository, it presents a path of least resistance.

Regardless of why organizations adopt a DevOps intelligence platform, the need to optimize workflow across toolchains is becoming more pressing during an economic downturn. It’s becoming more clear that the cost of an application delivery delay directly impacts the level of revenue an organization generates in the age of digital business transformation.

November 2, 2022
Opsera Hires Patrick Boyle and Chris Lansing to Support Rapid Growth of Enterprise Sales for No-code DevOps Orchestration

Expansion of sales leadership team supports Opsera’s momentum and enterprise adoption

San Francisco, CA April 6, 2022 — Opsera, the Continuous Orchestration platform for DevOps, today announced it has hired Patrick Boyle as VP of Global Sales and Chris Lansing as RVP, Head of Sales Americas. Boyle and Lansing bring decades of enterprise B2B tech sales experience and will be responsible for driving the next stage of Opsera’s growth as its no-code DevOps orchestration platform continues to gain momentum in the enterprise.

Boyle brings strong sales leadership experience and was most recently RVP of sales at Copado and prior held sales leadership roles at AutoRABIT and Flosum. Lansing was most recently RVP of sales at Copado serving the media, communications and telecom industries. He previously served as an account director at Keysight Technologies and Eggplant. Together, Boyle and Lansing bring deep experience in enterprise sales for B2B technology startups. They will use their combined expertise to chart strategic sales strategies for Opsera during a pivotal time for the company as it rapidly scales. Boyle and Lansing will be responsible for helping Opsera to exceed its fiscal year 2022 sales goals, a track on which the company is already on.

“Leading enterprise sales for SaaS and DevOps startups has been a passion of mine for many years and I look forward to continuing this passion at Opsera,” said Boyle. “In my experience selling DevOps solutions to Salesforce development teams, I’ve seen gaps that need to be filled and Opsera fills these gaps and more. I believe Opsera’s no-code DevOps orchestration platform is the solution enterprises need to manage not just Salesforce deployments, but to tame the complexity of all CI/CD pipelines. I’m excited to support Opsera’s growing success.”

“I could not think of a more exciting time to join Opsera,” said Lansing. “This is a fast-paced and fast-growing company and I look forward to contributing to their already impressive and expanding track record of success. I strongly believe in low code/no code DevOps as the greatest impact to enterprises now, and in the near future 70% of all apps will be built by low code apps by 2025. I want to work tirelessly to make more companies realize the power of this platform.”

“We are thrilled to welcome Patrick and Chris to the Opsera team,” said Chandra Ranganathan, co-founder and CEO of Opsera. “Opsera is rapidly growing and we are experiencing unprecedented demand for no-code DevOps orchestration in the enterprise. Patrick and Chris join us at a pivotal time to support this next phase of growth and we are excited to continue to build momentum with them on board.”

Opsera offers the industry’s first no-code DevOps orchestration platform that provisions engineering teams’ choice of CI/CD tools from a common architectural framework and builds declarative pipelines for a variety of use cases including SDLC, Infrastructure as Code, and release automation for SaaS applications such as Salesforce, Snowflake, Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), etc. Opsera simplifies the set-up, use, and management of commercial and open-source tools across the DevOps ecosystem to correlate and unify data to provide contextualized diagnostics, metrics and actionable insights.

Schedule a demo to see Opsera in action: https://www.opsera.io/schedule-a-demo

About Opsera
Opsera is the first Continuous Orchestration platform for next-gen DevOps that enables choice, automation, and intelligence across the entire software life cycle. It offers simple, self-service toolchain integrations, drag-and-drop pipelines, and unified insights. With Continuous Orchestration, development teams can use the tools they want, operations teams gain improved efficiency, and business leaders have unparalleled visibility. Opsera believes DevOps has transformed from an aspiration to a practical science, and Continuous Orchestration is the future to help organizations accelerate DevOps adoption and reach peak innovation velocity.

April 6, 2022
Opsera and Octopus Deploy Partner to Help Organizations Accelerate DevOps Adoption and Overall Software Delivery Management

Opsera and Octopus Deploy combine no-code DevOps orchestration with continuous deployment automation to launch software delivery teams into modern DevOps practices simply and easily

SAN FRANCISCO, March 8, 2022 — Opsera, the Continuous Orchestration platform for DevOps, today announces its partnership with Octopus Deploy. With this integration, software delivery teams can quickly, securely, and seamlessly create a no-code orchestration layer for end-to-end software supply chain management.

Learn more about the Opsera and Octopus Deploy integration by attending this free webinar on April 12, 2022: https://www.opsera.io/events/opsera-and-octopus-integration.

Today, organizations face the complexity of deploying applications across multiple clouds and environments to keep pace with innovation and customer demands. To address the need for deployment efficiency, Octopus provides one tool to accelerate reliable, repeatable, and traceable deployments across clouds and on-premises. However, adding an orchestration layer to deployment processes is critical to ensure continuous deployment is achieved. Expertise in multiple proprietary scripting languages, domain-specific languages, and configuration files are typically required to orchestrate delivery tasks amongst tools. Using Opsera’s no-code orchestration solution reduces this complexity and allows organizations to rapidly scale DevOps processes with freedom of tool choice and fully automated deployment pipelines and workflows. Opsera also eliminates the need to write manual glue code and custom scripts.

With the Octopus and Opsera integration, users enjoy:

Increased velocity and reduced barrier to entry

Configuration as Code can be complex but Octopus offers a simple Configuration as Code solution that balances the full power of Git with the usability of Octopus. Opsera then provides further benefits by giving developers the ability to manage Octopus deployments across multiple clouds and environments in parallel (i.e. VMs, Kubernetes, EC2, AKS, EKS, Functions, serverless, database deployments, etc.) via no-code orchestration platform.

Improved security and compliance

Octopus offers built-in manual intervention steps which Opsera extends on so software delivery teams gain reporting and tracking via a single source of truth to ensure strict audit and compliance measures are met. Opsera provides no-code scripting that lets developers insert approval gates into the pipeline process (security, quality, change management, etc.) for repeatable, auditable, and compliant software delivery.

Security and secrets management

Octopus provides built-in support for managing configuration variables and secrets that vary as software releases are promoted through environments. Opsera extends this functionality through its integration with third-party secrets management solutions, like HashiCorp Vault, with support for any deployment type in just a few clicks. Hashicorp Vault secures, stores, and tightly controls access to tokens, passwords, certificates, encryption keys, custom deployment scripts, and for protecting secrets and other sensitive data. Opsera offers built-in integration to Hashicorp Vault and it enables customers to integrate Vault variables to Octopus deployments quickly and securely.

Customizable reporting and metrics

It’s critical that all stakeholders, from CXO to engineering and product owners, understand which KPIs to use to measure deployment success and have full visibility into those metrics. Octopus provides dashboards that show you what version of your application is deployed to what environment. Users can see who deployed which release to what environment, when they did it, and if it was successful or not. Opsera complements this with 100+ KPIs adhering to the set standards from DORA, DoD, and NIST DevSecOps metrics.

“The Opsera and Octopus integration offers the speed and control software delivery teams need to keep pace with modern DevOps,” said Vishnu Vasudevan, Head of Product at Opsera. “Multi-cloud and multi-environment deployments are challenging but proliferating in the enterprise. Combining the flexibility of tool choice and no-code automation of Opsera with Octopus Deploy’s exceptional deployment automation capabilities means release engineers and developers can deploy across environments faster, better and secure with strict security and compliance measures in place with 360 degree visibility from planning to operations including Value Stream Management.”

“We’re excited to see Opsera’s integration of Octopus Deploy. This will allow customers to take advantage of Octopus Deploy’s strengths in continuous deployment automation. With this new integration, software teams will be able to orchestrate their CI/CD pipelines with Octopus’ deployment capabilities,” said Octopus VP of Product, Colin Bowern.

Schedule a demo to see the Opsera and Octopus integration in action: https://www.opsera.io/schedule-a-demo

About Opsera

Opsera is the first Continuous Orchestration platform for next-gen DevOps that enables choice, automation, and intelligence across the entire software life cycle. It offers simple, self-service toolchain integrations, drag-and-drop pipelines, and unified insights. With Continuous Orchestration, development teams can use the tools they want, operations teams gain improved efficiency, and business leaders have unparalleled visibility. Opsera believes DevOps has transformed from an aspiration to a practical science, and Continuous Orchestration is the future to help organizations accelerate DevOps adoption and reach peak innovation velocity.

About Octopus

Founded in 2012, Octopus Deploy helps DevOps teams at over 25,000 companies accelerate reliable, repeatable, and traceable deployments across clouds and on-premises infrastructure. Octopus provides an API-first approach, built-in multi-tenancy, security, release management, and deployment and runbook automation across all teams, projects, and tech stacks. Our customers get best practices with access to 500+ automation step templates. Octopus also integrates with hundreds of technologies, including Azure, AWS, GCP, and Kubernetes. Companies use Octopus Deploy to minimize downtime, deliver more features, and meet their compliance needs.

March 8, 2022
Opsera Raises $15 Million Series A Funding To Lead Continuous Orchestration Of Devops And Software Delivery

Opsera democratizes DevOps with its self-service, no-code orchestration platform to help enterprises deliver software faster, safer and smarter

SAN FRANCISCO, April 28, 2021 — Opsera, the Continuous Orchestration platform for DevOps, today announced $15 million in Series A funding led by Felicis Ventures. Existing investors Clear Ventures, Trinity Ventures and Firebolt Ventures, and new investor HMG Ventures, also participated. With a total of $19.3 million in funding since it was founded in 2020. Opsera will continue to grow its world-class engineering team, and accelerate its global sales, marketing and customer success initiatives.

For more information about Opsera, please visit http://opsera.io.

DevOps is the force multiplier for digital transformation and accelerating software delivery. As DevOps matures, many organizations struggle with increasing costs, fragmented teams and data, and an explosion of disconnected tools. Teams must deliver applications faster, on multiple platforms and across multiple cloud environments. Engineering leaders also face unknown security and compliance risks due to poor visibility and reporting.

Opsera aims to change the status quo. Through its self-service, no-code DevOps orchestration platform, engineers can provision or integrate their CI/CD tools of choice from a common architectural framework, and build declarative pipelines for a variety of use cases including SDLC (software delivery lifecycle), IaC (infrastructure as code) and SaaS application releases e.g. Salesforce, Workday, etc. Opsera simplifies the set-up, use, and management of commercial and open-source tools across the DevOps ecosystem, and correlates and unifies data to provide contextualized diagnostics, metrics and actionable insights. With Opsera, customers can significantly shorten software delivery cycles, go to market faster, enhance quality and security of pipelines, lower total cost of operations, and better align software delivery performance to business outcomes.

“Opsera’s continuous orchestration is a breakthrough for software delivery teams that need simplicity, integration and automation in a single, unified DevOps platform,” said Wesley Chan, a managing director for Felicis Ventures, who will join the Opsera Board. “We invest in leading-edge companies that help their customers work better and deliver value faster. Opsera’s out-of-the-gate success helping enterprises build applications smarter and more efficiently make it a great addition to the Felicis investment portfolio.”

“Today’s enterprise software organizations find themselves overloaded with disparate tools or locked into a single-vendor solution that unnecessarily hinders DevOps teams and slows the release of applications to customers,” said Rajeev Madhavan, founder and general partner for Clear Ventures. “Opsera helps teams break free from DevOps tool chaos with a new approach that accelerates time-to-value like no other solution available today.”

“Our mission is to democratize software delivery by abstracting any CI/CD tools into a common framework that can empower engineers to build pipelines in minutes, not days or weeks,” said Chandra Ranganathan and Kumar Chivukula, co-founders of Opsera. “We offer the only DevOps platform that connects and orchestrates the entire tool stack with complete choice and visibility. Our customers can focus on their core product and will never waste time and resources building and managing toolchains and pipelines in-house or be stuck with single-vendor solutions. Having the support of Felicis and all of our investment partners will accelerate how we help customers along their DevOps journey.”

Launched just six months ago, the Opsera platform has a growing client roster, and is trusted by several Fortune 500 customers and an increasing number of companies across Industries worldwide. It has forged key technology and SI partnerships and has been recognized as 2020’s Best New DevOps Tool/Service Provider by devopsy.kinsta.cloud.

For more information, please visit: www.opsera.io

About Opsera

Opsera is the first Continuous Orchestration platform for next-gen DevOps that enables choice, automation, and intelligence across the entire software life cycle. It offers simple, self-service toolchain integrations, drag-and-drop pipelines, and unified insights. With Continuous Orchestration, development teams can use the tools they want, operations teams gain improved efficiency, and business leaders have unparalleled visibility. Opsera believes DevOps has transformed from an aspiration to a practical science, and Continuous Orchestration is the future to help organizations accelerate DevOps adoption and reach peak innovation velocity.

April 28, 2021