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How can server automation improve your network infrastructure?

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Server automation is the process of using software tools to configure, manage, and monitor servers without manual intervention. It can help you improve your network infrastructure by reducing errors, saving time, enhancing security, and optimizing performance. In this article, you will learn how server automation works, what benefits it can bring, and what tools you can use to implement it.

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1 What is server automation?

Server automation is the use of scripts, policies, templates, or workflows to perform tasks on servers automatically. These tasks can include provisioning, patching, updating, scaling, backup, recovery, compliance, and auditing. Server automation can be applied to physical, virtual, or cloud servers, or a combination of them. Server automation can also be integrated with other IT processes, such as configuration management, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and orchestration.

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Server automation enhances network infrastructure by streamlining operations, boosting efficiency, and improving security. It automates routine tasks like software updates, ensuring consistency and reducing errors, which is vital for system integrity across complex networks. This efficiency allows IT staff to focus on strategic projects and enables quick scaling of network services to meet demand, crucial for maintaining competitiveness. Automation also secures the network by timely applying patches and enforcing security policies through automated compliance checks, minimizing vulnerability to cyber threats. Server automation supports a secure, efficient, and agile network infrastructure, optimizing resource use and enhancing reliability.

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2 Why use server automation?

Server automation can bring numerous advantages to your network infrastructure. For instance, automating complex and repetitive tasks can reduce errors, save time, enhance security, and optimize performance. By automating these tasks, you can eliminate human errors that may lead to data loss or security breaches. Additionally, automation can free up your IT staff to focus on more strategic and creative projects. Furthermore, it can ensure that your servers are always protected from vulnerabilities and threats by automating security updates, patches, and compliance checks. Lastly, performance monitoring, tuning, and scaling can be automated to guarantee that your servers are always running at optimal levels and can handle changing workloads and demands.

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I favorite is consistency and standardization. I've watched the reliance gains from moving from on prem, to clouds, to adopting config management and DevOps. It all starts with keeping everything standardized to be referenced and iterated over for automation.

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3 What are server automation tools?

Server automation tools are software applications that enable you to automate server tasks. They can range in functionality, complexity, and cost depending on your needs and preferences. Common features of server automation tools include a graphical user interface (GUI), command-line interface (CLI), application programming interface (API), dashboard, and reporting. For example, Ansible is an open-source tool that uses YAML-based playbooks to automate server configuration, deployment, and orchestration; Chef is an open-source tool that uses Ruby-based recipes to automate server configuration, deployment, and compliance; Puppet is an open-source tool that uses declarative manifests to automate server configuration, deployment, and compliance; and PowerShell is a scripting language and framework that allows you to automate server tasks on Windows and Linux systems. Each of these tools support multiple platforms and integrate with other tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Git, Jenkins, Azure, Splunk, VMware, Google Cloud, Active Directory, SQL Server, and Azure.

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We want to reduce manual tasks and human errors, right by ensuring consistent configurations across servers. It enables efficient deployment, configuration, and management of servers, enhancing system reliability and operational efficiency. Automation tools like Ansible, Puppet, and Chef allow for code-based infrastructure setup and management, offering version control for configurations and easy replication across environments. These tools facilitate continuous integration and delivery, improve security through consistent application of patches and settings, and offer real-time monitoring and reporting. By doing this, you can focus on strategic initiatives, optimising their network infrastructure for better performance and scalability.

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4 How to start with server automation?

Server automation can be a daunting task, particularly with a large and complex network infrastructure. To begin, assess your current situation by identifying your server inventory, configuration, and performance. Additionally, determine your automation goals and priorities, evaluate existing tools and resources, and choose an automation tool that meets your needs. After that, plan your automation strategy by defining the scope, schedule, and workflow. Design automation tasks, scripts, policies or templates and test them in a sandbox or staging environment before deploying them to production. Once the tasks are implemented using the chosen tool, monitor and manage them using the dashboard, reporting or logging features. Lastly, review the results of your automation tasks to measure their impact on the network infrastructure and identify areas for improvement or optimization.

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5 What are the best practices for server automation?

Server automation can be a powerful and beneficial tool for improving your network infrastructure, but it can also pose some risks and challenges. To ensure that your server automation process is effective and efficient, you should document your automation process to keep track of tasks, scripts, policies, or templates. Additionally, backing up your servers can help you prevent data loss or corruption in case of automation failures, errors, or disasters. Securing your automation tool is also essential to protect your servers from unauthorized access or manipulation and to comply with security standards and regulations. You should use encryption, authentication, authorization, and auditing features and update your automation tool regularly and test it before applying it to your servers.

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6 Here’s what else to consider

This is a space to share examples, stories, or insights that don’t fit into any of the previous sections. What else would you like to add?

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1 What is server automation?

2 Why use server automation?

3 What are server automation tools?

4 How to start with server automation?

5 What are the best practices for server automation?

6 Here’s what else to consider

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