Automation is a big part of DevOps, but are you practicing DevOps if you do not automate every single thing? I’d like to talk about where automation fits into DevOps, how to go about scripting “all the things” and why sometimes it is not necessary. Personal story of how one Ruby script saved me and my friends a bunch of time that could be used to do things slightly more exciting than copy/pasting to spreadsheets. Plus my quick API 101 lesson…