Automation Wisdoms
Automation Wisdoms#
- Automation starts with the workflow
workflow - set of tasks strung together to achieve some meaningful business objective
- Don’t reinvent the wheel
- Start simple and iterate
Auto Remediation#
- Reduce mean time to resolution (MTR)
- Avoid human error
- Positive team impact - avoid pager fatigue, capture operational knowledge as code, turn from reactive to pro-active
Small Wins#
- Do what you do everyday
- Improve one thing a time
- Don’t try to learn more than one thing at a time
- Start simple use cases
Keep it simple
Building it from Scratch Yourself#
We’ve tried “the build and maintain it yourself” already and it’s a major failure. Let’s not burn out more time and people to go that wrong route. - HFTGuy