Devtron Year in Review 2024
2024 was a breakout year! As we close the 2024 chapter, we reflect on a remarkable year of growth, innovation and collaboration. This year has been filled with exciting milestones, impactful product updates and meaningful engagements with our global community. From receiving prestigious recognitions from AWS, surpassing new heights on GitHub to connecting with the cloud-native community at events worldwide, 2024 has been a year of impact and progress.
🚀 Key Product Updates
This year, we delivered features to address challenges faced by developers and DevOps teams and simplify Kubernetes management for faster, more secure deployments:
- Application Deployment & Distribution:
- The new Software Distribution Hub centralizes management for microservices delivery across multiple customers and including air-gapped environments.
- Deployment windows (Blackout & Maintenance windows) were introduced to control deployments and avoid disruptions.
- Approval Groups enforce robust governance and Runtime Input Parameters provide dynamic CI/CD control.
- Streamlined Configuration:
- Compare Configuration across environments to prevent drift, Clone CI/CD Workflows, and lock configurations for enhanced security and consistency. Build Infrastructure Configurations for optimized resource utilization.
- Cluster Management:
- Minimizing downtime and MTTR using Auto Remediation and reducing manual intervention and faster error resolution. Simplify Kubernetes upgrades with automated compatibility checks using Silver Surfer
- GitOps Listing: Visualize multi-cluster ArgoCD & FluxCD applications for unified management.
- Enhanced Security:
- Secure kubectl access providing developers with controlled terminal access using fine-grained RBAC API tokens.
- User Access Management with SSO mapping for simplified administration.
- Intelligence & Monitoring:
- Devtron Intelligence (AI-powered error analysis) and centralized dashboards (Grafana, Kibana integration) for a single pane of glass view.
🏊 Dive deeper into a detailed version of product updates from 2024 now.
🌟 A Special Highlight - The launch of Devtron 1.0, a major milestone that transforms Kubernetes operations for enterprises using AI. Unveiled at KubeCon North America, Devtron 1.0 brings powerful new features like AI-driven troubleshooting, enhanced CI/CD workflows, auto-remediation, and robust RBAC to simplify Kubernetes management at scale. This release signifies a leap forward in DevOps automation, offering enterprises a unified platform for managing the entire application lifecycle and ensuring faster, more secure deployments.
🔗 Read more about it here.
🌟 Notable Achievements in 2024 🌟
2024 had been a great year for Devtron. With loads of new users, feedback, features, product enhancement, and community empowerment, the year had been filled with learning and fun.
🏆 Recognition from AWS
A standout moment for us was winning the AWS Rising Star Award (India) and being recognized as a finalist for APJ Technology Partner of the Year, a testament to our commitment to delivering solutions that simplify Kubernetes adoption while driving innovation in cloud-native application management.
AWS Partner Spotlight - Devtron
We highlighted the collaboration between Devtron and AWS, showcasing how our joint solutions streamline Kubernetes management on Amazon EKS.
Checkout this blog and explore how Devtron's powerful DevOps automation platform, integrated with AWS, helps teams improve development efficiency, accelerate software delivery and optimize costs.
🌍 Conferences
Devtron made its mark at several global conferences, connecting with the cloud-native community including AWS re:Invent, KubeCon North America, KubeCon India, US Fintech Symposium, KCD Hyderabad, KCD Washington DC, KCD Kerala, Cloud Native Rejekts, Dine with DevOps and DevOps Conclave & Awards.
[Fig. 3] Conferences
👥 Events
We have hosted and participated in various industry-leading events including:
- KubeCon India Networking Dinner
With the first ever KubeCon in India this year, we planned an exclusive KubeCon India networking dinner party post-conference on Day 1 in collaboration with Middleware. We welcomed around 180 folks at the event joining us from different parts of the world. We saw over 500+ professionals including founders, managers and DevOps Engineers signing in a short period. 🎉
The attendees exchanged valuable insights over discussions in the Cloud Native ecosystem and enjoyed the most happening DJ night in the town. 🪩
- Top Golf Events
We had a great time hosting Top Golf Events at the United States in Atlanta, Austin and Dallas and inviting Kubernetes Practitioners. They enjoyed exchanging insights on Kubernetes strategies, and basking in an evening filled with good food, drinks and a great company.
- Webinar with the AWS team & more
Enhancing DevOps Efficiency on Amazon EKS with Devtron - This webinar provided a comprehensive overview of how Devtron simplifies the deployment, management and scaling of Kubernetes applications on Amazon EKS, enabling teams to streamline operations and focus on building.
🔗 Tune in to watch our previous webinars here.
🗣️ Meetups:
Quite an eventful year I would say! We hosted meetups every month across India in Delhi NCR and Bangalore and partnered with organisations and CNCF communities and covered various topics including Kubernetes Cost Optimization, Observability, Software delivery, Platform Engineering, App Modernisation, Containerization, Cloud and more.
Follow our meetup page to stay updated on all the meetups and webinars we host. Do check out some of our past meetups that we have hosted.
We also expanded our footprint with meetups in the U.S. (at Austin, Virginia & Denver). Our team also attended & presented at various meetups across India, some of the notable ones include the KubernTENes Birthday bash meetup celebrating a decade of Kubernetes, DevOps Days, AWS Community Days, GitHub Constellation, GitTogether and more that fostered cloud-native collaborations.
❤️ Community Growth
Reached an incredible 10k+ followers on Linkedin and 4.6k GitHub Stars, a huge thanks to our growing community for the support and love. These valuable connections & conversations are not just memories; they are the building blocks that are guiding our strategic vision for the year ahead.
🎯 Looking Ahead
As we move into 2025, we remain committed to empowering teams with tools that simplify Kubernetes management and accelerate development cycles. With your support, we’re excited to continue this Cloud Native journey of innovation and community building.
Here’s to another incredible year ahead together, let’s redefine what’s possible in the cloud-native world. 🚀