Automation Workflows for Developers: Streamlining Code to Deployment

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

With infrastructure as code, you define your entire cloud or server environment in configuration files. This ensures consistency across environments and makes it easy to spin up identical stacks for development, testing, and production. Popular tools include Terraform, which works across multiple cloud providers; Ansible for configuration management; and Pulumi, which uses familiar programming languages like Python and TypeScript.

• Choose the right tool for your stack: Terraform for provisioning, Ansible for configuration, or Pulumi for full-stack definitions.
• Use modules and roles to reuse infrastructure patterns across projects.
• Test your infrastructure code in staging environments before deploying to production.

• Robotic Process Automation (RPA)

Robotic process automation (RPA) takes care of repetitive business tasks like data entry, report generation, and form processing. RPA bots work at the user interface level, imitating human actions to free up people for more strategic work. They follow rule-based instructions and can integrate with your existing systems without requiring deep code changes.

• Map the process step by step, noting exceptions and edge cases.
• Build small, modular bots that can be combined into larger workflows.
• Monitor and log bot activities to catch errors early.