Every time you deploy by hand, you are one typo away from an outage. I know because I have made that typo.
After automating deployments, backups, monitoring, and code-quality gates across production systems, operational toil dropped dramatically. Not because we worked harder — because we stopped doing things by hand that machines do better.
Your CI/CD pipeline is an investment, not a luxury. It pays back on the first deployment it handles correctly while you are doing something more valuable.
Automate the thing. You will do it eventually anyway — after the fourth incident it could have prevented.
— Dick Bassey | DevDick | 2020