What do most DevOps engineers love about their job? The ability to innovate–to be a part of building valuable technologies, to contribute to their favorite open source projects, and of course, the opportunity to solve complex problems. What do they hate? Wasting time on repetitive tasks, fixing broken systems, and doing grunt work that could easily be automated. Unfortunately, managing the cloud involves way too much of the latter.
For example, say your EBS disk is about to reach its limit. An alert goes out in the middle of the night and whichever DevOps engineer is on call will have to get out of bed and manually expand your EBS disk in order to prevent application failure. Same happens with EC2. If you want to optimize costs as you scale up and down, DevOps engineers will need to continuously buy and sell commitments or configure their application to run on a Spot Instance. There’s simply no way to win.
Powering DevOps Productivity with AI Automation
As we have established, DevOps are not babysitters. They are highly qualified and talented engineers who thrive by building new and innovative technologies. The grunt work of cloud management therefore, is often seen as an obstacle to DevOps productivity as it requires constant monitoring, configuration, and adjustments. It doesn’t help that much of this work is impossible to do 100% effectively.
Thankfully, there is a better way.
AI automation is perfectly suited to handle repetitive, routine tasks such as analyzing real-time data, predicting future scale, adjusting
infrastructure to accommodate changes in requirements, and more. Plus it can do all of this with perfect accuracy. DevOps cannot be as productive as they want if they are constantly putting out fires in their cloud infrastructure. But by automating the tasks they don’t like doing anyway, your cloud stays fully optimized while your DevOps engineers are able to work more efficiently on what they enjoy most.
Want to learn more about how Renovisor’s AI automation enables DevOps to offload cloud management? Chat with one of our cloud experts to learn now!