Organizations across every industry are looking to automation to give their business a competitive advantage. In many cases, automation is already underway with multiple grassroots efforts. Automation is the cornerstone that allows IT to provide consumable infrastructure for development and application teams inside your organization. Automation is also key to reducing toil and having engineering and operations teams focus on important work and driving your business into the future. However, for many, getting started with Automation can seem like a daunting task, and prioritizing where to start can be a difficult decision.

Cloud-native platforms are the foundation for organizations to host next-generation, business-critical workloads. Platforms such as these represent a new paradigm in how applications and workloads are deployed, scaled and distributed.