Continuous Delivery Global Market Report 2024

Continuous delivery refers to software development practice where code changes are automatically prepared by the system at the time of release to production. This helps in accurate building, testing, and releasing software with greater speed and frequency. The continuous delivery is used in automated testing, and unit testing to verify application updates across multiple dimensions before deploying to customers.

The main types of continuous delivery market pipeline stages are the source stage, build stage, test stage, and deploy stage. The source stage refers to the first stage of the CD pipeline, which is triggered by the change in the code repository. The deployment modes are on-premises and cloud. The organization sizes are small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), and large enterprises. The end-user industries are banking, financial services, insurance, telecom and IT, retail and consumer goods, healthcare and life sciences, manufacturing, government and defense, and other end-user industries.

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The continuous delivery market size has grown exponentially in recent years. It will grow from $3.76 billion in 2023 to $4.52 billion in 2024 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 20.2%. The growth in the historic period can be attributed to agile development practices, need for faster time-to-market, demand for software automation, increased complexity of software development, emphasis on devops culture.

The continuous delivery market size is expected to see exponential growth in the next few years. It will grow to $9.85 billion in 2028 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 21.5%. The growth in the forecast period can be attributed to growth in microservices architecture, adoption of machine learning for continuous delivery, increased focus on security in devops pipelines, rise of edge computing and distributed systems. Major trends in the forecast period include gitops for continuous delivery, shift-left testing and quality assurance, container orchestration in continuous delivery pipelines, serverless computing for event-driven architectures, continuous integration and continuous deployment (ci/cd) for multi-cloud environments.

The growing adoption of automation is expected to propel the growth of the continuous delivery market going forward. Automation refers to technological applications that require little or no human intervention. Continuous delivery automates the software process by automatically deploying all code changes to the testing and production environment, therefore making the process of software testing more efficient. For instance, in May 2023, according to Formstack, a US-based software company, 76% of organizations use automation to automate their daily workflows, automating data and reporting for planning purposes is used by 58%, and compliance with regulations is used by 36% of firms. Therefore, the growing adoption of automation will drive the continuous delivery market growth.

The rising demand for cloud computing is expected to propel the growth of the continuous delivery market going forward. Cloud computing is a technology that enables the delivery of various computing services over the internet and is used by organizations and individuals to invest in and manage physical hardware and software infrastructure. Cloud computing uses continuous delivery for testing tools and devices to test applications across various platforms and devices, to maintain quality. to maintain data security and compliance by enforcing encryption, access controls, and data auditing across cloud services. For instance, in January 2023, according to Google LLC, a US-based technology company, 76% of people used the public cloud in 2022, an increase of 56% from 2021. Therefore, the rising demand for cloud computing is driving the growth of the continuous delivery market.

Technology advancement is the key trend gaining popularity in the continuous delivery market. Major companies in the market are introducing new technologies such as Cloud Deploy which contains self-managed continuous delivery solutions to sustain their position in the market. For instance, in September 2021, Google, a US-based software and technology developer, introduced Google Cloud Deploy which helps an opinionated continuous delivery service that simplifies, accelerates, and improves the reliability of continuous delivery to Google Kubernetes Engine. With the help of self-managed continuous delivery, solutions help to get reclaim the time spent maintaining your continuous delivery tooling and time spent on delivering value to your customers. It also provides discrete resource access control, execution-level security, and flow management tools such as release promotion, rollback, and approvals for protection against unwanted approvals.

Major companies operating in the continuous delivery market are innovating new technological products, such as Harness Continuous Delivery Community Edition, to increase their profitability in the market. Harness Continuous Delivery Community Edition is a source-available continuous delivery solution that is available for use free of charge and designed to help build an agile software delivery solution. For instance, in January 2022, Harness is a US-based continuous delivery-as-a-service platform launched Harness Continuous Delivery Community Edition. Harness Continuous Delivery Community Edition allow teams to collaborate, develop, test, deploy, and manage software on the cloud in one place. Users have access features such as automated canary and blue-green deployments, automated infrastructure provisioning, integrated approval and notification flows, and a developer-friendly pipeline-as-code experience.

In September 2022, CloudBees, a US-based DevOps software firm that powers the continuous economy, acquired ReleaseIQ for an undisclosed amount. Through this acquisition, CloudBees platform will be able to provide more visibility, and control over its software delivery on an end-to-end basis. A flow orchestration engine is already included in CloudBees' continuous delivery platform. In contrast, ReleaseIQ provides similar functionality using a SaaS platform that is more accessible across multiple continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platforms. ReleaseIQ is a US-based provider of an orchestration platform for automating software delivery via a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform.

Major companies operating in the in the continuous delivery market report are International Business Machines Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, XebiaLabs Inc., Atlassian Corporation Plc, Jenkins, Travis CI GmbH, CircleCI Inc., GitLab Inc., JFrog Ltd., CloudBees Inc., Broadcom Inc., Thoughtworks Inc., SemaphoreCI Inc., AppVeyor Systems Inc., Buddy Platform Limited, Wercker B. V., Beekeeper Studio Inc., Shippable Inc., Bitergia LLC, Verizon Media, Electric Cloud Inc., Chef Software, appLariat, Clarive, Spirent Communications plc, VMware Inc.

North America was the largest region in the continuous delivery market in 2023. Asia-Pacific is expected to be the fastest-growing region in the forecast period. The regions covered in the continuous delivery market report are Asia-Pacific, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, North America, South America, Middle East, Africa

The countries covered in the continuous delivery market report are Australia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Russia, South Korea, UK, USA, Italy, Canada, Spain.

The continuous delivery market consists of revenues earned by entities by providing minimum-in-service deployment and rolling application updates. Values in this market are ‘factory gate’ values, that is the value of goods sold by the manufacturers or creators of the goods, whether to other entities (including downstream manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors, and retailers) or directly to end customers. The value of goods in this market includes related services sold by the creators of the goods.

The market value is defined as the revenues that enterprises gain from the sale of goods and/or services within the specified market and geography through sales, grants, or donations in terms of the currency (in USD, unless otherwise specified)).

The revenues for a specified geography are consumption values that are revenues generated by organizations in the specified geography within the market, irrespective of where they are produced. It does not include revenues from resales along the supply chain, either further along the supply chain or as part of other products.


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