How AI and automation will change IT jobs – Features – IoT Hub
Technology changes constantly, and the environment around it must change with it. Programs and scripts handle repetitive tasks that were once part of a system administrator’s daily routine. And a single person can fulfil a role that took a team of three or four a decade ago.
Automation tools such as Puppet, Chef and Ansible provide centralised management of system configuration, making things much easier for system administrators.
The next step on this automation journey is the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. There are many ways in which these technologies can be applied to the system administrator role. Log analysis, for example.
Even a small system can produce huge volumes of log data. Most of this information is useless, but pattern analysis can identify problems, or ways to improve performance. Sifting through all this information is one of the most tedious tasks for a system administrator.