Over the past several weeks we have discussed the four types of automation. We by describing provisioning and configuration automation, and why zipping the two together help you build automated infrastructures. Next, we showed how automating monitoring data can make your architectures resilient. This post is about orchestration automation. It will show that infrastructure automation
When you think about automation, what comes to your mind first? If you’re like most people, it’s the combination of provisioning and configuration automation. When you think about it, even though these actions are often done together, they are actually different types of automation. Why and how should you zip up your provisioning and configuration
Can automation cure all infrastructure and IT woes? We’re finding automation is much harder than we’d like to admit. Perhaps that’s because we don’t consider the four types of automation. Why is Automation Difficult? Why does using automation to perform ordinary operations feel like running into a wall? Repeatable tasks such as building clusters, configuring operating
