Session Title

Improve Your Automation to Reduce Toil

Abstract

In the course of your day as an SRE or DevOps, or SysAdmin, your knowledge and expertise are in high demand. You can't do every task every person in your org needs from you without the help of comprehensive automation.Automation can be tricky. Some systems aren't built with automation in mind, but assume that a human being will be there to keep an eye on things and fix errors on the fly, and we can't be everywhere when there's too much to do.Plus, you want to provide access to automation for the right folks and keep a record of when the tools were used.In this talk, we’ll cover some things to keep in mind when you’re building out your automation library, characteristics of good automation, and give you a look at PagerDuty Rundeck, a platform that will help you share your expertise with other folks in your organization Build automation that works for you and gives you your time back!

Bio

Mandi Walls is a DevOps Advocate at PagerDuty. For PagerDuty, she helps organizations along their IT Modernization journey. Prior to PagerDuty, she worked at Chef Software and AOL. She is an international speaker on DevOps topics and the author of the whitepaper "Building A DevOps Culture", published by O'Reilly.