From the course: Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) for the Cloud-Native Revolution

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Automate everything

Automate everything

- The DevOps pipeline is the way through which you can write code, have automated tests be performed on it, have it reviewed by peer, go through security scan, build the code in a test environment, and then push it to production. All of this being fully automated. Nothing short of magic, right? This is the power and speed of automation. What's the link between automation and cloud native, you might ask? Pretty obvious. Before, a lot of work constituting IT was physical. If you needed extra capacity, meaning extra servers, you had to physically install hardware that you bought from a supplier. If you needed new routers, you would order them, wait weeks or even months, install, and maintain them. This required time, resources, and most importantly, planning ahead. The issue with planning ahead is that you might need 100 servers for Christmas or other very busy times, but maybe you only need 20 servers to be running for…

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