Cloud automation

What is cloud automation?

• Cost efficiency: Automation scales resources up or down to avoid overprovisioning and lower operating expenses. It reduces labor expenses by eliminating manual chores.
• Scalability: Cloud automation lets resources scale to meet demand without manual intervention, allowing infrastructure to grow or shrink dynamically.
• Automating load balancing and resource allocation improves performance and system responsiveness, improving user experiences.
• Security: Automating security tasks like patching, vulnerability scanning, and access restrictions reduces human error and improves security.

Types of cloud automation

• Infrastructure automation: Managing cloud infrastructure using code ensures consistency, reliability, and error-free environments. Automating setup and upgrades speeds up deployment and reduces human error.
• Automating provisioning: Automated provisioning distributes cloud resources on demand. Self-service portals let consumers distribute resources without IT intervention.
• Automated deployment: Automation of integration, testing, and deployment speeds application delivery. It simplifies application container management and supports scalable and consistent app deployment with rapid, dependable releases.
• Monitoring/Management automation: Performance is monitored continuously, and self-healing systems automatically fix problems. Problems are detected early and resolved without human intervention, ensuring high availability.
• Automation for security and compliance: Automatic security and compliance procedures check cloud infrastructures for vulnerabilities and regulatory compliance. Enforcement of security regulations and automated remediation of deviations reduce security risks.z
• Automating backup and disaster recovery: Automated backups and disaster recovery protect and restore data quickly, reducing downtime and data loss.
• Automating cost management: Continuous cost management automation examines cloud expenditures to find underused resources and optimize expenses. It optimizes resource consumption and controls costs.
• Automating workflow: Workflow automation ensures consistent and efficient execution of complicated business processes with various jobs. This speeds up company processes by reducing manual labor.
• Automating DevOps and SRE: This automation covers application development, testing, deployment, and operations. It automates repetitive operations and speeds up issue resolution to improve system dependability, performance, and uptime.
• Automating data management: From extraction and translation to loading and storage, automated data management covers everything. Automation of backups and scaling provides data consistency, availability, and performance.

Organizations can concentrate on innovation and growth by deploying various cloud automation types to increase operational efficiency, eliminate human effort, and scale and reliably their cloud systems.

Best practices for cloud automation:

• Set clear objectives: Set automated goals like deployment speed, resource optimization, and compliance. Clear objectives will lead to the automation plan and meet company demands.
• Secure your automation: Apply security best practices. To enforce security across cloud resources, automate patch management, vulnerability scanning, access control, and compliance checks.
• Update and maintain systems: Apply patches, upgrades, and new features to cloud automation tools and infrastructure. Maintenance addresses security, performance, and changing business needs.
• Monitor and optimize performance: Track automated system and resource performance, uptime, and usage. Use automatic alerts and optimization tools to optimize cloud performance, uncover inefficiencies, and modify resources.

These best practices help firms optimize, safeguard, and align cloud automation with long-term goals.

Cloud automation with HPE solutions

Morpheus - Unified platform for hybrid cloud environments

HPE Morpheus is a powerful cloud automation platform designed to streamline cloud operations, enhancing agility and efficiency. It provides centralized management for diverse cloud environments, including private, public, and hybrid clouds, eliminating the need for multiple tools. It allows you to define and execute automation workflows across various cloud platforms, ensuring consistency and reducing the risk of errors.

HPE Morpheus enables IT teams to create self-service portals where users can request and provision cloud resources independently. HPE Morpheus allows you to automate complex workflows, such as deploying applications, scaling resources, and performing maintenance tasks. This reduces manual effort and minimizes human error.  Also, you can create custom workflows using a visual drag-and-drop interface, making it easy to adapt to specific needs. Morpheus empowers organizations to achieve greater efficiency, reduce costs, and accelerate innovation in their cloud environments.

HPE GreenLake cloud - HPE GreenLake automates your IT infrastructure from edge-to-cloud: 

GreenLake Central manages and optimizes workloads across hybrid environments, while the pay-per-use approach dynamically scales resources depending on demand.

Built-in automation capabilities simplify provisioning, scaling, and managing IT resources, while comprehensive API support integrates with current platforms and DevOps tools.

The integration of HPE Morpheus with HPE GreenLake automates cloud operations by providing real-time monitoring to improve efficiency, cost optimization, and agility. These technologies automate difficult IT infrastructure management for a hybrid and multicloud experience.

Automated backups, disaster recovery, compliance checks, and security procedures protect your data and meet industry requirements.