Read the abstract ➤ https://www.conf42.com/DevOps_2024_Mandi_Walls_improve_automation_reduce_toil Other sessions at this event ➤ https://www.conf42.com/devops2024 Join Discord ➤ https://discord.gg/DnyHgrC7jC Chapters 0:00 intro 0:38 preamble 0:48 hi! 1:01 our developer needs resources in the cloud... 3:25 expertise 5:53 what is automation 7:00 is ai automation? is automation ai? 8:45 benefits of automation 11:35 potential drawbacks 13:41 goals for the automation itself automation for delegation 17:03 automate inter-team toil 18:20 design automation for delegation 20:59 turn expertise into automation what should we automate? 22:07 example automation tasks for incident response 24:52 what should we automate? 26:14 evolution of automation 29:54 resources