Automating repetitive tasks is often at the core of a technical person's job satisfaction and years ago, a class of software appeared that attempted to solve the problem of infrastructure automation.

The tools and products that were developed to solve this problem often had a similar user experience. Focused primarily on a command-line experience, they appealed quickly to systems-focused technical users and saw their adoption explode.

As organizations have embraced cloud engineering, new classes of users need infrastructure automation that might not have embraced command line or CI/CD workflows to achieve their goals.

In this session, we'll examine how a class of tooling was born, and take a look at the user experience from a variety of different perspectives. Finally, we'll take a look at other ways we might automate infrastructure with the goal of finally democratizing the cloud native experience.