Troubleshooting Automation and Orchestration

This section covers automation and orchestration service troubleshooting. You learned earlier in the chapter that oftentimes these systems are going to be out of your reach to troubleshoot and manage because they are controlled by the cloud service provider. If you are operating in a public cloud environment, then you should have more access to the underlying code to troubleshoot automated cloud applications.

You can compare the input to the output of automation and orchestration systems to determine whether what you requested was what was actually delivered. Based on the results of your troubleshooting, you can either open a trouble ticket with the public cloud company or work internally with your development teams to troubleshoot the issue.

Many of these systems are in the public software domain and supported with the open community model. If this is the case, you can be assured that if you are seeing a problem, many others are as well. Check...