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You Probably Aren’t as Advanced in Automation as You Think
- Research shows a significant gap between perception and reality in automation capabilities, with less than one-third actually implementing best practices.
- Infrastructure automation involves using scripts or code to set up and manage infrastructure to avoid manual configurations.
- Tools like Terraform, OpenTofu, and AWS CloudFormation are commonly used to automate infrastructure provisioning.
- Benefits of infrastructure automation include speed, consistency, scalability, version control, efficiency, and reliability.
- To start with infrastructure automation, one should learn DevOps and IaC basics, choose the right tools, and learn a tool hands-on.
- Using version control, testing, and integrating with CI/CD pipelines are important steps in infrastructure automation implementation.
- Challenges in implementing infrastructure automation include skill gaps, security and access management, and tool selection complexity.
- Next steps after successful implementation involve optimizing, scaling automation strategy, and focusing on modularization, documentation, and workflows.
- Infrastructure automation is a continuous process requiring refinement, scaling, and alignment with evolving business and technical needs.
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