Automation Best Practices

Summary

Writing scripts that are readable, documented, version-controlled and safely re-runnable — the difference between a script that works once on your machine and one a whole team can trust in production.

• 1Add comments and a usage description to your best automation script so far.
• 2Move a useful ad-hoc script into version control (Phase 4) instead of leaving it local-only.
• 3Learn to add basic logging to a script so failures are diagnosable after the fact.