I’m lazy and you can be too! Here’s a secret: Automation is simple. It may seem daunting in the beginning but the truth is you already know how to automate your build and deployment of your applications even if you are manually intervening at each step. Why not just do all this work once and be done with it? Let us demystify how to polish our build and deployment processes to ease the pain we feel in our development operations. Whether your working on a monolith or distributed system we'll discuss techniques and tools like Gradle, Helm, and Flux to organize our scripts for building, deploying, and releasing services to a Kubernetes cluster.