automation-background.md

Benefits of Automation

What does automation enable

Typical application

• Applications have many components
  • Web servers
  • App servers
  • Load balancers
  • Network infrastructure: firewalls, subnets routers, etc.
• Components spread across multiple regions for redundancy

Disadvantages of manual deployment

• You could login to every machine in your network to:
  • Install packages
  • Update configuration
  • Deploy code
• Doing this manually can be:
  • Time consuming
  • Error prone

What is Automation?

• Automation is about taking manual processes and placing technology around them to make them repeatable.
• Automation is the key to speed, consistency, scalability and repeatability.

Benefits of Automation

• Scalability
• Reliability
• Repeatability
• Consistency
• Auditability
• Security