Deployment Automation Basics

Why should we bother automating deployments in the first place? What should the scope of the automation effort be? How do we get started? This white paper provides a solid introduction to these topics. Concepts covered in this white paper:

• Why manual deployments are so slow and error prone
• Whether your deployment automation should span development, test, and operations silos
• How an automated system can help with audit
• Building on top of an automation infrastructure
• How to account for environment to environment differences