Zero Touch Automation: Building Self-Healing Infrastructure

The goal of automation is zero touch: systems that maintain themselves.

Self-Healing Patterns

• Health checks trigger automatic restarts
• Circuit breakers prevent cascade failures
• Auto-scaling responds to load changes
• Automated rollback on deployment failures

Incident Response Automation

• Automated alert correlation
• Runbook automation for common issues
• AI-assisted root cause analysis
• Automated remediation for known issues

Operational Excellence

• Everything as code (infrastructure, policy, configuration)
• Automated testing of automation
• Chaos engineering for resilience validation
• Continuous improvement loops

Human Oversight

Zero touch doesn't mean zero humans. Build escape hatches for when automation fails.