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Jeroen Mulder
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Jeroen Mulder

Jeroen Mulder is a certified enterprise and security architect, and he works with Fujitsu (Netherlands) as a Principal Business Consultant. Earlier, he was a Sr. Lead Architect, focusing on cloud and cloud native technology, at Fujitsu, and was later promoted to become the Head of Applications and Multi-Cloud Services. Jeroen is interested in the cloud technology, architecture for cloud infrastructure, serverless and container technology, application development, and digital transformation using various DevOps methodologies and tools. He has previously authored “Multi-Cloud Architecture and Governance”, “Enterprise DevOps for Architects”, and “Transforming Healthcare with DevOps4Care”.
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Designing and managing automation

In this section, we will discuss automation for DevOps. For starters, automation is not only about tools, although we will discuss tools at the end of this section. The first questions that architects will need to answer regard what they need to automate and why. It's not about the tools but about the process.

First, we need to answer the following question: Why would we need automation? The answer to that question is because of standardization. The reason for businesses to adapt DevOps is because they want to speed up delivery processes. The only way to do that is by standardization of building blocks, workflows, processes, and technologies. By implementing and adhering consistently to standards, companies will limit varieties in the delivery chain and can then start automating it. The big trick in automation is cutting down the waiting time.

Before companies turned to DevOps, IT delivery was driven by waiting time. Developers had to...

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Jeroen Mulder

Jeroen Mulder is a certified enterprise and security architect, and he works with Fujitsu (Netherlands) as a Principal Business Consultant. Earlier, he was a Sr. Lead Architect, focusing on cloud and cloud native technology, at Fujitsu, and was later promoted to become the Head of Applications and Multi-Cloud Services. Jeroen is interested in the cloud technology, architecture for cloud infrastructure, serverless and container technology, application development, and digital transformation using various DevOps methodologies and tools. He has previously authored “Multi-Cloud Architecture and Governance”, “Enterprise DevOps for Architects”, and “Transforming Healthcare with DevOps4Care”.
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