How To Scale Digital IT Services With Automated Provisioning
Summary
Building these processes in silos doesn’t provide the scalability or reliability that digital services require — connections between point tools (standalone provisioning solutions, for example) are brittle, prone to human error and often rely on time-consuming custom scripts. WLA solutions enable users to tie workloads to IT resources and can provide direct integrations and REST API adapters that connect to virtually any endpoint — SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, etc. Many WLA solutions are built on a client-server architecture that enables users to deploy execution servers (or job schedulers) in multiple disparate environments. Unlike other automation technologies, WLA tools can provide a variety of methods for provisioning and deprovisioning servers, giving devops teams greater flexibility to manage end-to-end processes. Your automation solution will likely use algorithms to analyze historical and real-time data to provision and deprovision additional servers based on expected or unexpected demand.