Exploring automation
We’re going to start with why automation is needed in life in general and then we’ll move toward a more specific definition that relates to DevOps and other tech team activities. Automation is for the lazy, but many do not realize how hard you must work and how much you must study to truly be lazy. To achieve automation, it requires a mindset, an attitude, a frustration with present circumstances.
Automation and how it relates to the world
In Tim Ferris’s book The 4-Hour Workweek, he has an entire section dedicated to automating the workflow which emphasizes the fact that the principle of automation helps you clean up your life and remove or automate any unnecessary tasks or distractions. DevOps hopes to do something similar but in your professional life. Automation is the primary basis that frees up our time to do other things we want.
One of the things mankind has always tried to automate even further is transportation. We have evolved...
