Automation

From application release cycles and customer services to incident management, every process depends on infrastructure and needs to move faster. Infrastructure automation speeds up not only provisioning but also application deployment, helping enterprises seize opportunities more quickly. Key advantages include:

• Higher productivity: Employees can focus on high-impact work while automated processes handle repetitive tasks.

• Increased reliability: Reducing human intervention minimizes errors. Identical workflows run the same way every time, producing predictable timelines and trustworthy results.

• Easier oversight: More people involved means more information gaps and higher coordination costs. Codifying operations gives you better visibility and control.

Unlike traditional IDCs, cloud services expose compute, networking, storage, and application capabilities through OpenAPIs. This allows you to define and deliver complex services programmatically, automating the full lifecycle from resource provisioning to application deployment.

By orchestrating OpenAPIs, you can combine different forms of automation and deeply integrate enterprise systems with the cloud platform. Common cloud automation approaches fall into three categories:

• Infrastructure as Code: Define and provision cloud resources through programmable templates for efficient, repeatable deployments. Typical product: Resource Orchestration Service (ROS).

• Pipeline as Code: Connect tasks that run on single or multiple nodes into end-to-end release pipelines through scripts and orchestration engines. Typical products: Operations Orchestration Service (OOS).

• Policy as Code: Manage access control and security policies as code to enforce compliance consistently and at scale. Typical product: Resource Access Management (RAM).