| Author: | Edison Hanchell |
| Date: | 18/01/2020 |
What is automation? The Google tells us that:
Automation is the technology by which a process or procedure is performed with minimal human assistance
I don't necessarily like that definition because while true, it diminishes entirely what is actually happening. Automation is a way for a human to structure a process in their mind and frame it so that a computer or some other machine is able to understand it. It's us speaking directly to the machine and it letting us know it understands. I say understands because if it doesn't it will sure as shit let you know.
Throughout the talk, I'm going to go over a few techonologies that vary in complexity to accomplish the same or simlar results. I will preface this by saying that this is in Not at all the only way to accomplish these tasks. There are methods galore but it is a nice introduction or a fun distraction (depending on your level) to add some automation to your day and maybe even workflow.
- Coding
- Gulp
- Git - Bare repositories & Hooks
- Scheduling - Crontab
- Provisioning & Configuration - Ansible
- Testing - Parallels
- CI/CD - Gitlab CI
- Node
- DigitalOcean
- Ansible
- Bash
- VSCode