Automation

IT automation, sometimes referred to as infrastructure automation, is the use of software to create repeatable instructions and processes to change or reduce human interaction with IT systems. Automation software works within the confines of these instructions, tools, and frameworks to perform tasks with little or no human intervention. Automation is key to IT optimization and digital transformation.

Modern, dynamic IT environments need to scale faster than ever, and IT automation is vital to make this happen. Start automating for free What is included in IT automation? Theoretically, if this is an IT task, some automation can be applied to that task. Thus, automation can be integrated and implemented with everything from network automation to infrastructure, cloud provisioning and standard operating environments (SOEs), and more, application deployment and configuration management.

Automation capabilities and applications can be extended to specific technologies such as containers, methodologies such as DevOps, and wider areas such as cloud, edge computing, security, testing and monitoring / alerting. A holistic approach to IT automation can help you achieve repetitive, manual processes from the hands of your staff. This allows teams to be more productive, reduce errors, improve collaboration and free up time that could be spent on more meaningful, thoughtful work. You need infrastructure to run business systems and this infrastructure needs to be installed. What used to be about racks, boxes, and cables in a data center is now about virtualized assets from (mostly) software-defined data centers, networks, and storage to virtual machines and containers.

Much of what we do now is defined in software, and the transition to software has increased the scale and capacity of what is possible. This move also gives the coding of processes and necessarily requires it. This helps you meet the demands of your business under increased cost awareness and time constraints. That's where automation comes in.

Why waste time installing these environments manually through templates?

Thanks to coding, you have a template you follow to get this job done. Instead, why would an automated system not follow these rules?

Perform deployments in your data center with automation that works with your existing infrastructure and management tools to take full advantage of what you already have to achieve the future state you need. Configuration management Not all applications are created the same. They require different settings, file systems, ports, users.

Once you've automated basic preparation, you need to be able to tell those resources what to do. Storing what your application environment looks like in a document, spreadsheet, text file, or even email won't help you get a repeatable, robust environment for hosting your apps. And as you gain more systems, more examples, and more complexity, you need a better way of recording how systems look so you can manage them effectively. For this purpose, developers can use the infrastructure (bare metal, virtualized, cloud, containers, etc.) You need a powerful configuration management solution that allows it to be defined in a way that is easily understood by everyone on your IT team.

The simpler it is to automate ad hoc scripts and applications for system administration, the easier it will be to do the real job. Editing You probably aren't deploying a single service on a single machine. Your IT is probably a little more complicated than that. It requires management and service of multiple applications across multiple data centers and infrastructures.

You also have public, private and hybrid cloud deployments. The more complex an IT system is, the more complex it can be to manage all moving parts. The need to combine multiple automated tasks and their configurations across groups of systems or machines increases. In short, this is orchestration. On top of that, you can control these edits with robust automation solutions. This allows you to keep track of them all, connect them all together, and operate more advanced, autonomous systems with ease.

Application deployment Whether you're using a more traditional approach to application deployment or using continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) approaches, development pipelines rely on robust, automated systems to fulfill modern expectations. Successful application deployment depends on a fully efficient set of automated, core tasks and capabilities, especially in the testing phase.

 

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