The only thing that I will do manually in any environment is putting sensitive data into configuration. With IAM roles, I can usually avoid that. I will create the roles manually.
If you go by the old mantra of treating servers like cattle and not pets, you have to automate everything. My VMs (EC2 instances) can be destroyed, replicated, auto scaled, etc. at any time. I have to automate no matter how long it takes to figure out.
If you go by the old mantra of treating servers like cattle and not pets, you have to automate everything. My VMs (EC2 instances) can be destroyed, replicated, auto scaled, etc. at any time. I have to automate no matter how long it takes to figure out.