Operational Excellence Assessment Guidance 09 What Is Your Approach to Design the Capability for Automation Into Your Workload

Operational Excellence Assessment - Automation Strategy

Question: What is your approach to design the capability for automation into your workload?

It’s beneficial to design a workload with automation in mind. Different methodologies and strategies are available to bring configuration into your workload.

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Question Responses

[X] Automating operations is a central consideration in our workload design.

You reduce required manual efforts and need to refactor your design and code later by considering opportunities to automate tasks is an integral part of your design process.

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[X] The control plane provides supports automation by external tools.

A control plane is the backend system or suite of tools that you use to manage the application and its dependencies through a unified interface. Build your control plane like a REST interface, CLI, or webhook to support automation by external tools. Expose maintenance operations through the control plane that allow you to coordinate workload components.

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[X] Our authentication standards allow for automation wherever reasonable.

In line with your workload’s security requirements, you design your authentication solution to take advantage of automation when practical and to only use non-human identities to perform automated authentication.

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[X] - We use the capabilities provided by the cloud platform for automation where appropriate.

You are familiar with the capabilities offered by your cloud provider to automate operational tasks, maintenance procedures, and configuration parameters. You use these automation capabilities where appropriate.

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