What DevOps Automation Looks Like in 2021

DevOps automation is the process of getting machines to handle repetitive work in the software deployment and operations lifecycle so that operators can deploy iterative updates faster and their systems operate more reliably.

Since the term DevOps was coined in 2009, automation has moved further and further right from automating development, integration, and delivery work to today’s frontier on the operational side, where we see new tools to automate observability, reliability, and remediation.