What’s Your Infrastructure as Code Maturity?

Cloud-native applications and infrastructure have fundamentally transformed the way modern businesses operate. We are now faster, more agile, and more secure. To meet the growing demands of this new era, many organizations have adopted, and are adopting, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to efficiently provision the cloud-native infrastructure required for modern deployment practices.  

While IaC has certainly improved how we build and scale, it also introduces new challenges—especially as we integrate AI, Copilots, and other tools that accelerate the pace of engineering. To gain a clearer understanding of IaC's impact, its strengths, and where it requires improvement, StackGen conducted a comprehensive survey of more than 300 executives, DevOps professionals, platform engineers, and developers. 

Key Findings

The findings reveal that while IaC offers significant advantages, there are also areas of misalignment and opportunities for improvement. The data also shows that different teams see different values and advantages from using IaC.

• 97% of respondents report difficulties with IaC. 
  Top concerns include enforcing consistent configurations across all environments (56%) and managing multiple tools, which can lead to steep learning curves and compatibility issues (54%).

• 93% agree that innovation is needed to make IaC faster and more streamlined. 
  When asked to rate their satisfaction with the benefits delivered by IaC, many respondents expressed a desire for improvement.

• Only 13% of organizations report achieving IaC maturity. 

• 98% of respondents state that their organization needs more IaC expertise. 
  Over half (57%) believe that developers should acquire more security and infrastructure skills, while 51% feel that infrastructure stakeholders need a deeper understanding of application and business requirements.
  
  
• 61% expressed a desire for all security and compliance requirements to be applied by default in IaC.
  
  
• 46% indicated that generating IaC directly from application code would be helpful.

Next Generation IaC: Infrastructure from Code

In this inaugural report, we invite you to benchmark your organization against industry peers and assess where IaC is delivering value—and where enhancements are needed. As you consider your 2025 investment strategies, we believe this report illustrates key areas for focus and growth for every level of maturity.

At StackGen, our mission is to eliminate the complexity of IaC by auto-generating infrastructure directly from application code, with security, compliance, and reliability embedded by design. Teams can visualize IaC deployment architecture, drag and drop resources and enhance resource connections with guardrails and validate resources.