Automation Seasons Freezings Wrap Up and New Year’s Resolutions

In 2023, the focus is on reducing routine manual tasks in engineering through increased automation to allow more time for innovation. The blog highlights the impact of toil, as evidenced by a PagerDuty survey indicating that 43% of respondents spend a significant portion of their time on repetitive work. To address this, organizations are encouraged to automate tasks such as server restarts and infrastructure provisioning using tools like PagerDuty Process Automation or Rundeck. The blog emphasizes the importance of delegating automated processes as self-service to end users and suggests reducing interruptions by automating diagnostics for recurring incidents. It also discusses the benefits of integrating existing automation tools with platforms like Ansible to enhance workflow orchestration and security. The blog encourages sharing New Year's resolutions for automation and offers resources to learn more about implementing these strategies.