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summary
Argues automation pays back quickly — a one‑hour script repays a minute‑twice‑daily task in about a month — and gives a concrete step‑by‑step: do it by hand first, make notes, automate one piece at a time. Shows working examples: Greasemonkey maths for a game, a monthly bank‑statement downloader, a vim typist driven by scripts, and a CI pipeline using Jenkins/GoCD/Bamboo to centralize visibility. Emphasizes CI as a visibility engine, use of Ansible/Puppet/Chef/Vagrant/Terraform/Consul, and warns when not to automate.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Introduction to automation
- 2:07When to automate and not
- 5:53A guide to automation
- 9:14Step by step implementation
- 12:36Finding automation tasks
- 15:12Centralized automation
- 18:46Thinking outside the box
- 22:05Creative automation examples
- 26:13Automating vim
- 30:10Achieving business buy-in
- 33:01Best practices for success
- 36:02Tools and frameworks
- 38:04Visibility and chat ops
- 41:14Useful automation tools
- 46:53Final considerations
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