For Managers: DevOps Automation and Unintended Consequences

Most organizations adopting the cloud have adopted DevOps automation to some degree or another.  The primary reason is that continued manual maintenance isn't possible with the same staffing level and increased demand for a faster change rate. Many aren't to the point of achieving 100% automation but are striving for it. By "automation", I refer to Infrastructure as Code (IaC), automated builds and deployments (CI / CD Pipelines), machine image creation, security enforcement functions, etc. Most...