5 Ways: Infrastructure automation Increase Agility to Production

 

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How Can Infrastructure Automation Bring More Agility to Production

‘‘Infrastructure automation’- This term has been echoing around the world for the last few years. So many companies have tried random testing but ended up with zero outcomes. Few have not dared to adopt it yet. 

Are you also in dilemma? Thinking wheatear you should take the risk or not? Let’s have a look a bit inside.

5 Ways to Agile Production Through Infrastructure automation

1.      Continuous integration (CI)

Coding with continuous integration offers the scopes for spontaneous software delivery. Through which you become a fast mover from a follower within a year.  The more time and manpower you save from fast delivery, the more you can invest in innovation. 

(Read More: How Automation Can Lead to Innovation by Robin Sherwood)

2.      Cloud Infrastructure Automation and Configuration Management

In the U.S, about 88% of companies have already adopted several cloud-native applications along with the existing DevOps framework. So collecting analytical data manually will throw you out from the competition in the next 2 years. The adoption of automation in cloud infrastructure will make you able to execute your operations irrespective of any environment. 

Getting confused? Let’s discuss this with more clarity.

Suppose you have automated your configuration management system. As a result, no need to engage a folk of infrastructure engineer, 2 or 3 infrastructure automation engineers will be enough for monitoring the configuration. Security risk and other issues will get checked automatically leading to the betterment of your exiting system state. 

Result? You are still utilizing your existing infrastructure but getting more competitive, agile, and scalable results within a lower period.  

3.     Improved Collaboration & Updates

While you are working on a large-scale project, the main barrier you face is ‘Effective cross-team’ collaboration. Here is the key to converting this barrier into success. 

For example, if you automate the process of collaboration within DevOps, then team members of the different teams need not wait for approval from other teams. Approval is now automated based on preset authentication measures. Here collaboration becomes more agile. Similarly, bug fixation and version up-gradation will super smooth and instant. The outcome is again improved the number of quality releases. 

4.      Increased Efficiency of workflow

This is the most vital benefit that you can gain from IT infrastructure automation. The tasks within a workflow might have several numbers of dependencies. Automated infrastructure analyzes the dependencies with greater ease and executes the applications or test codes only when provided conditions are met. This analysis happens within a few seconds. Now think, how much time your teams would take to do the same, manually? 

5.      Automated Compliance check 

We all know securities are now defined as code. Hence to provide maximum degrees of compliance and minimum degrees of security risk, an organization has to focus booth on CI and continuous development (CD). If implement automation, you will get an automatic compliance check. Small to small detected risks related to compliance get checked and resolved automatically.

Again overall production enjoys the charm of agility. Not only that, but the beauty of the automated compliance checking also lies in the ensured consistency concerning the reverting of governance into the system. 

Lastly, all you can achieve these outcomes at lower staffing costs. J (Through automation, one staff can handle the responsibilities of ten staff). 

So? Don’t you think you should take a bit risk to obtain a better position in the competitive market in long run?