progression of system operations from manual, to scriptable, to automated, to a fourth category I hadn't even known existed: autonomous. Completely agree. The

progression of system operations from manual, to scriptable, to automated, to a fourth category I hadn't even known existed: autonomous. Completely agree. The first "eureka" moment is when you define all your infrastructure in code in something like Terraform. Magically networking, firewall rules, disks, instances, are all provisioned and dependencies calculated. It is quite a breakthrough from running CLI commands or using the web interface to allocate infrastructure. Plug: I wrote a blog post on getting started with Terraform and Google Compute Engine for those interetested https://blog.elasticbyte.net/getting-started-with-terraform-and-google-compute-engine/ https://blog.elasticbyte.net/getting-started-with-terraform-...