Today, any business expects automation to be a cornerstone of success. Traditional approaches are too slow when it comes to delivering innovation at the pace at which the business ecosystem changes. This is one of the main reasons why many businesses are moving towards automation and DevOps.
If we take a look at evolving software delivery technologies, we can easily see that old-generation applications were installed first directly on bare metal, and then on virtual machines. And with time, these companies started using different IaaS cloud platforms. The reason is very obvious—the IaaS platform allows us to bring automation to the next level using cloud orchestration tools and exposed APIs. The way IaaS automation does this on an infrastructure level is that it simplifies virtual networking, storage, and virtual servers....
