Tools and Techniques for Enabling a NoOps Strategy in the Cloud>
IT Pro Today – Christopher Tozzi
The debate continues about whether NoOps â the idea that IT processes and infrastructure can be so completely automated that the IT operations team becomes unnecessary â is actually an achievable reality.

Cloud automation tools that lend themselves to a NoOps strategy can be broken into different categories. Let’s explore them one-by-one.

Cloud recommendation tools AWS offers Trusted Advisor, Microsoft Azure has Azure Advisor, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) offers Google Cloud Recommender. These services automatically scan cloud environments and make suggestions about how to improve workloads. They can also apply the recommended changes automatically in most cases.

Cloud recommendation tools don’t totally achieve NoOps because someone has to review the recommendations and click the Apply button. NoOps and cloud autoscalers Businesses that use cloud services like virtual machines and managed containers can set up autoscalers to increase or decrease the size of their cloud infrastructure automatically. The alternative to autoscaling is to monitor and adjust cloud infrastructure manually â which is exactly the opposite of what you’d be doing if you were pursuing a NoOps strategy.

Code generation as a step toward NoOps Generative AI engines that can automatically write code, such as GitHub Copilot and Amazon CodeWhisperer, have garnered attention primarily for their potential to help automate software development.

But these tools could enable a NoOps strategy, too, by automatically writing the code that IT operations teams would otherwise need to produce by hand to perform various maintenance and management tasks. Automated cloud failover Google Cloud says it can perform automated health checks for workloads and reroute traffic to alternative endpoints in the event that one workload instance fails.

None of the tools or techniques described above enable true NoOps â perhaps because the idea of completely automating IT operations just isn’t realistic. But they do show that placing a NoOps strategy at the heart of cloud management is more practical than you might think.
Link: https://www.itprotoday.com/noops/tools-and-techniques-enabling-noops-strategy-cloud