Chapter 10: Making the Final Step to NoOps
Is it possible to execute IT operations without hands-on operations? Research and advisory companies, such as Gartner and Forrester, foresee an IT future based on NoOps. The big idea behind NoOps is that literally everything can be automated. It means an even bigger role for AI, and something called heuristic automation. How can an enterprise move to NoOps, and what is the role of an architect in this field? We will discuss this in this chapter.
After completing this chapter, you will be able to explain NoOps as a concept and why enterprises should adopt the principles of NoOps. You will learn what heuristic automation is and how it's driving the architecture of NoOps. The most important lesson that you will learn is that NoOps is not simply about having no need for any operations at all.
In this chapter, we're going to cover the following main topics:
- Understanding the paradigm shift to NoOps
- Understanding the...