Automation, Automation, Automation. Anything happen yet, No. Okay so we know where not going to get to the point of one click deployments and self healing systems by repeating Automation out loud like in the 1988 Beetlejuice movie with out some type of well thought out strategy and associated plan of action. So have no fear we will journey through various thought exercises and real world examples of automation from individual pieces of the infrastructure to specific scripts that do specific task all the way to automating the Software Defined Data Center.