[officialchicken]

Very true, but what's the ROI for full automation?

If a typical 2-3 click deploy generously takes an hour, and they do 40 per year... then it would take 1 year to break even presuming that a fully-automated system could be built and deployed in 1 man-week. If the deploy takes 10 mins, can it be built in less than 1 day?

Ignoring the development time for a fully automated system, I think the real question is, "how does a rollback and unscheduled downtime impact the ROI due to unforeseen problems?" because it will happen, eventually.

[brianwawok]

Well how many mistakes do they make with those 4 clicks? That's part of the point of automation - remove chances for humans to flub.

[reddit_clone]

Why downvote this? This is a valid point.

Automation is not just for saving time. It is also preventing the system from human errors.

People make errors due to fatigue, inattention etc. performing even simple tasks.