--- title: "Infrastructure Automation: The Last Step Towards DevOps Automation" description: Infrastructure Automation is the process of creating and tearing down server and application infrastructure to support the development, testing, and production environments. image: https://www.aemcorp.com/hubfs/AEM%20Micro%20website/Devops/Infrastructure%20Automation/IA.png --- [![AEM Blue](https://www.aemcorp.com/hubfs/AEM_Corp_February2018_Theme%20/Images/98ebac2e-d85d-11e6-bb14-0242ac110005.AEM-Logo-Color-regular_image.png)](https://www.aemcorp.com/capabilities-information-technology?hsLang=en) [ Contact Us ](https://www.aemcorp.com/contact?hsLang=en) # DevOps Automation Service Catalogue # ![breadcumb](https://www.aemcorp.com/hs-fs/hubfs/AEM%20Micro%20website/Devops/Infrastructure%20Automation/breadcumb.png?width=100&name=breadcumb.png) INFRASTRUCTURE AUTOMATION Infrastructure Automation is the process of creating and tearing down server and application infrastructure to support the development, testing, and production environments. ![Infrastructure](https://www.aemcorp.com/hs-fs/hubfs/AEM%20Micro%20website/Devops/Infrastructure%20Automation/Infrastructure.png?width=343&name=Infrastructure.png "Infrastructure") - **Define and execute a consistent and repeatable process.** - **Amplify feedback and improve team communication.** - **Improve overall release deployment quality.** - **Accelerate the delivery of application features to production.** ## Models In the diagram below, given the items on the left, implementing Infrastructure Automation will result in the items on the right.   ![IA-update](https://www.aemcorp.com/hs-fs/hubfs/AEM%20Micro%20website/Devops/Infrastructure%20Automation/IA-update.jpg?width=1200&name=IA-update.jpg) ## Key Metrics #### ![Time to Fulfill](https://www.aemcorp.com/hs-fs/hubfs/AEM%20Micro%20website/Devops/Infrastructure%20Automation/Time%20to%20Fulfill.png?width=62&name=Time%20to%20Fulfill.png) #### Time to Fulfill Environment Provisioning Request redirects resources from application and business feature development and impacts time required for each release. #### ![Percentage](https://www.aemcorp.com/hs-fs/hubfs/AEM%20Micro%20website/Devops/Infrastructure%20Automation/Percentage.png?width=59&name=Percentage.png) #### Percentage of Available Capacity indicates whether an environment is sized correctly and identifies potential stability issues that will occur when available resources are exhausted. #### ![frequency](https://www.aemcorp.com/hs-fs/hubfs/AEM%20Micro%20website/Devops/Infrastructure%20Automation/frequency.png?width=90&name=frequency.png) #### Frequency of Deployments indicates the overall output and activity of the project. #### ![Deployment Time](https://www.aemcorp.com/hs-fs/hubfs/AEM%20Micro%20website/Devops/Infrastructure%20Automation/Deployment%20Time.png?width=90&name=Deployment%20Time.png) #### Average Deployment Time impacts the available time for deployments. ## Red Flag Areas - **Embedded System and/or Application Configurations    **lead to complicated code changes to handle environment changes and target releases.** ** - **Infrequent Check-ins of Configurations** lead to misconfigured environments and tribal knowledge of environment requirements. - **Inconsistent Environments** increase deployment tasks and introduce instability into environments due to variations in topology and configurations. - **Excessive Notifications** result in team members ignoring important alerts. - **Long Provisioning Request Fulfillments** prevent rapid changeover and on-demand creation and scaling of supporting infrastructure elements. - **Infrequent Deployments **system provisioning runbooks could atrophy over time and without regular exercising of procedures, environment definitions, which could become outdated. ## Key Roles ![](https://www.aemcorp.com/hs-fs/hubfs/image-1.png?width=150&name=image-1.png) #### System Administrator Responsible for preparing and modeling the target environments and deploying the application into each of them ![image-6](https://www.aemcorp.com/hs-fs/hubfs/AEM%20Micro%20website/Devops/Build%20Automation/image-6.png?width=140&name=image-6.png) #### Build Engineer Responsible for defining the release requirements and supporting the application deployment ![image](https://www.aemcorp.com/hs-fs/hubfs/image.png?width=135&name=image.png) #### Release Manager Responsible for defining and communicating the application release plans and reporting on the progress of the deployments ## Why AEM? 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