4 Reasons You Must Automate Your Cloud
May 28, 2014
Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Joe Masters Emison.
Systems administrators and software engineers have spent the past five years facing down the problem of whether and how to use software to automate application life cycles. As an industry, we’ve agreed to call this process of defining an application life cycle in software "orchestration."
Brian Adler, an architect at cloud management platform provider RightScale, defines orchestration as automating "short- or long-running, event-driven, or schedule-based tasks across a deployment of servers." Luke Kanies, CEO at IT configuration management developer Puppet Labs, defines it as "making ordered changes to multipart services across a wide range of hosts, in an even or progressive manner."…
The common thread: We need to use software to handle systems admin tasks in a consistent and automated way…
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