Automation and tool integration – a brief overview
No DevOps shop can be complete without a substantial level of automation throughout the operation. Just like with source code control, there are many excellent commercial and open source solutions for this. Red Hat Ansible®, SaltStack®, Puppet Enterprise®, Chef®, Ansible AWX®, and Puppet Bolt® are the most commonly used.
Other products often found in a build chain may also include a significant level of automation. One such example is the platform offered by a company called CloudBees. Their Jenkins product has been at the leading edge of DevOps shops globally. This is just one example in a market of many solutions.
Automation is an area that I can rant about for hours on end. That is definitely not what I intend for this brief section. The message I want to impart to you here is that automation, when done correctly, can ease the burden of many cumbersome and menial tasks that can be error...
