SREcon22 Asia/Pacific - Lifecycle of Reusable Automations: Track, Maintain, Deprecate

SREcon22 APAC - Lifecycle of Reusable Automations: Track, Maintain, Deprecate

Renisha Fernandes and Bharat P, VMware

As SRE's we all spend hours together to automate every possible manual task. While it is important to write new automated flows, it is equally important to keep existing automated flows relevant. As the number of active automation workflows grow significantly, various scaling problems come into picture. One of them is Maintaining relevant automations and avoiding Script rot. When a SRE Decides to use automated workflow on customer platform, they should be able to trust the relevancy of the script. Join us at our talk to get an insight over our experience of scaling in-house automation platform that hosts 2000+ automation workflows, with close to 5 million executions every month. We will talk about building and scaling automation platform, tracking automation workflows and executions, understanding script rot, working with execution data and how we used insights gathered from data to automatically maintain relevancy of workflows