Many organizations aspire to enabling infrastructure automation, GitOps and self-healing systems but struggle with IT fundamentals like network stability, asset management, observability and identity access. Without a strong foundation, automation efforts will struggle. We'll explore the key fundamentals that organizations must have before embarking on their automation journey as well as some common pitfalls usually encountered.

An examination of data from the Infrastructure Automation Envisioning Workshop that WWT has conducted since 2022. We examine current challenges and trends we see.