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Infrastructure automation

September 18, 2024

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Infrastructure automation enables you to manage and provision your IT resources more efficiently. By automating repetitive tasks, you reduce errors, increase consistency, and accelerate deployment processes. Unlike SDKs, which require coding expertise, tools like Terraform allow you to define and manage infrastructure declaratively, making management both accessible and reliable without needing deep programming skills.

Although this documentation currently focuses on the Terraform provider, XenServer plans to expand its automation support to include other tools in the future.

Key benefits of infrastructure automation:

Consistency: Automation ensures uniform configurations across environments, minimizing the risk of errors.
Efficiency: Deploying new environments and configurations is faster and more streamlined, reducing the manual workload for IT teams.
Scalability: Automation makes it easier to scale infrastructure reliably, essential for large-scale environments and rapidly growing organizations.

Several tools support infrastructure automation, each with unique capabilities. Currently, XenServer offers the Terraform Provider, which helps automate XenServer configuration and management tasks. For details, see Automating XenServer with Terraform.

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Infrastructure automation

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