Advanced automation tools
Throughout this book, I have emphasized the value of automation and how important it is to the DevOps realm and the increase of your productivity in general. It is very hard to go overboard with automation as long as you’re careful with it and understand your use case. We have expanded our toolbelts throughout this book to allow us to automate tasks in a number of scenarios. We even figured out how to automate those automations. But now, let’s look into a tool that may take this process a step further. It also happens to be a personal favorite of mine.
AWS Step Functions is something that I am always excited to talk about and use. Whenever I look for the gold standard of automation workflow tools, it is this that I think of. Any other automation tool that I have seen that works well has had very similar functionality and usability to Step Functions. There are, of course, equivalent services in the other major clouds that can be used as a replacement...
