Automation in the cloud does not require expensive new acquisitions when tools such as Ansible, Salt, Puppet, or Chef are already in use locally and can contribute to the automatic management and orchestration of cloud workloads.
Automation of network devices can be accomplished in a number of ways: with the official approaches recommended by the manufacturers; by Cumulus Linux, an open network operating system; and with the Ansible automation platform, which can communicate with devices from any vendor.
StackStorm is an open source, event-based platform for runbook automation.
Convince Jenkins as a Docker container to recognize self-signed certificates, verify that the instance is connecting to the correct online service, and that your traffic is transmitted in an encrypted format.
SaltStack is a fast and reliable modular toolbox written in Python that contains ready-made modules for many configuration management purposes.
Red Hat delivers an installer that lets you automate the installation of RHEL and CentOS in a preboot execution environment.
Chef InSpec is a practical tool for automated compliance monitoring with an intuitive, declarative scripting language.
DevOps Orchestration Platform open source framework was developed in Golang and can be used to bootstrap an IT infrastructure dynamically or import details of an existing IT infrastructure locally on VirtualBox or in the Cloud.
Build a continuous integration pipeline by linking Git, Jenkins, Docker, and GitHub into a build chain that can be flexibly extended and modified.
The right combination of mostly free automation and monitoring tools can create a self-healing system, in which your servers fix themselves.
