Cloud computing has become a common paradigm for businesses of all types and sizes, but when most of them think of cloud, they think of public cloud providers like Amazon, Microsoft, or Google. While it’s true that businesses can benefit greatly from cloud computing, however, many don't want the cost, performance, and governance concerns of public cloud. That leaves them with the option to build an on-premises or private cloud. But building a private cloud has always been a complex, costly, and time-consuming process, and many companies can’t or don’t want to acquire the cloud-building expertise necessary. Now, cloud infrastructure vendors are beginning to use automation to offer self-driving clouds, and these greatly reduce the overhead of deploying and operating a private cloud. In this article, we’ll look at the requirements for self-driving clouds.
From installation to long-term planning, many cloud management tasks can be automated to create a self-driving cloud.