DevOps automation is the use of tools and scripts to handle the repetitive steps of building, testing, deploying, and running software without manual work. The aim is to make releases faster, more frequent, and more reliable.
The core of DevOps automation is the continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline. Every code change triggers an automatic build and test run, and approved changes move to production through a defined, repeatable process. Infrastructure as code extends the same idea to servers and cloud resources, which are defined in version-controlled files and provisioned automatically. Monitoring and alerting close the loop by watching production and flagging problems.
Security automation is the natural next layer. Scans can run on every commit, and remediation can be automated too, from routing a finding to the right owner to opening a ticket with fix guidance. Seemplicity applies this approach to vulnerability remediation workflows, so fixes move through the same kind of automated process as code.