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Explore orchestration

Explore orchestration

- [Instructor] Orchestration is the automated configuration, coordination, and management of computer systems and software. Orchestration takes advantage of multiple automated tasks that execute a larger workflow or a process. Automating a process requires countless steps often spanning app, mobile, and database. So orchestration is the perfect term for this larger, more complex technique. It's not common anymore to just deploy one single application. In today's world, deployments have gotten more complex and more challenging. We have clustered applications, multiple data centers in different parts of the world, public, private, and hybrid clouds, and applications with complex dependencies. To manage this, you need a more complex tool that can orchestrate deployments. Think of IT orchestration just like the conductor of a musical orchestra with a various types of instruments all playing different parts of a song. The…

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