Why Should You Automate Your Deployment Pipeline?
Apart from fast delivery, several other reasons force you to automate your deployment pipeline. Let’s explore some of them.
Inefficiency:
It’s been long established that humans are not good at repetitive tasks. Studies show repetitive tasks can decrease human efficiency significantly. So, the chances of human error during repetitive tasks also increase significantly.
On the other hand, machines are good at repetitive tasks. Just a few lines of code and you can automate various repetitive tasks. By automating repetitive tasks you can save your resources and manpower for more complex and important tasks.
Automation gets your work done without compromising on quality. It makes your entire process
Automation Brings Efficiency and Speed:
You already know that automation brings efficiency and speed. The more you automate your deployment process, the faster it will become. A faster deployment cycle has its benefits.
Benefits of an automated deployment cycle include early detection of errors and rapid feedback. Continuous testing identifies errors so they don’t become a bigger problem in upcoming phases. Apart from bug detection automation allows you to get immediate feedback about the performance of your application.
With automation, you can act on real-time feedback and make changes in your software faster to deliver more reliability and quality to your end user.
Consistency and Reliability:
Predictability is crucial for any business. Automation makes your whole process more predictable. Deployment automation ensures that deployment follows a predefined process each time code is deployed to production.
Automation also makes the processes reusable. You can re-create specific deployment any time which is crucial for troubleshooting and auditing. You can also utilize this repeatability to recreate environments for packaging applications with their dependencies.
Another vital aspect of automation is consistency. Automation encourages version and infrastructure control. By automating these processes you have all the information about your code and infrastructure from the start of the project. The information includes every single detail from a big change to a small change. It’s like having a time machine that allows you to go back to any instant of your project timeline.
Cost Savings:
One of the main reasons you should adopt automation is because it has financial benefits. Automation provides several cost benefits. Automation tools provide the capability to optimize resource utilization.
Automation tools save you from on-premise infrastructure and its monthly maintenance cost. With automation tools, you can automate scaling and infrastructure provisioning without affecting your budget.
With automation, you only have to pay an upfront fee and then you pay as you use. And you can also optimize these costs with careful planning.
Does total automation make sense?
This is the question asked by many people. No, you can not automate everything. You use automation to get value out of your money. Automation enables you to save time while optimizing the costs of several of your deployment components.
As you analyze your organization’s framework, you will discover several components that can be automated. But either they provide relatively low value as compared to their cost or you lack technical capabilities. In these cases, you can not utilize automation for your benefit.