Chris Welcome to Ops All The Things, your podcast for all things DevOps, SysAdmin and Operations.
Chris I'm Chris Webber
Steve and I'm Steve Murawski and this show is being recorded on December 09th, 2014
Chris And this podcast is sponsored by Chef.
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Scripting vs Automation
Scripting and automation are two things that are discussed almost synonomously, but they are not.
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Tools are
- Scripts or programs that take a multi-step process and consolidate them to fewer steps
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The benefit of tools
- Standardization of process
- Less re-inventing the wheel
- Allows ops folks to deal with repeat issues faster
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Automation is
- Creating a system to elimate the task
- Taking the tooling and surfacing it to consumers
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The benefit of Automation
- Ops becomes a service provider
- Requirement to scale
- Tools are still dependent on operations time to run and shepard the results
- Automation makes it possible for consumers to execute the task on their schedule
- http://everythingsysadmin.com/2011/11/tools-vs-automation.html
- http://everythingsysadmin.com/2014/02/tool-building-versus-automatio.html
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