To Automate or not to Automate? | Cloud Chat with Stephan & Matt Ep. 4

Welcome back to Cloud Chat with Stephan & Matt, a podcast featuring Stephan Stelter, National Technical Partner Manager at NetApp, and Matt Brown, NetApp IT Executive Director. Episode 4 is all about automation. The duo in Shakesperean fashion asks, to automate or not to automate? Listen as Stephan & Matt discuss what to automate as well as efficiency, support, and management of automation.

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Intro & recap (0:00)
Why we automate (1:57)
When is it worth it to automate (3:22)
Documenting manual is still important (6:22)
Keeping automation efficient & updated (7:57)
Falling back on the manual process (12:27)
Choosing the automation framework (13:33)
RPA (14:40)
Ansible (17:04)
Conclusion (21:10)

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