Misc

What is Automation? How it's related or different from Orchestration?

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Source: bregman-arie/devops-exercises by Arie Bregman

Answer

Automation is the act of automating tasks to reduce human intervention or interaction in regards to IT technology and systems.

While automation focuses on a task level, Orchestration is the process of automating processes and/or workflows which consists of multiple tasks that usually across multiple systems.