DevOps transformed deployment speed, but teams still drown in operational tickets. The next evolution—Zero-Ops—aims to automate operational toil into oblivion.

What Zero-Ops Really Means

Zero-Ops focuses on:

• Self-healing systems
• Automated scaling
• Proactive monitoring
• Hands-free infrastructure provisioning
• Ticket reduction via AI and event-based automation

Key Enablers

• Infrastructure-as-code
• GitOps workflows
• Event-driven automation (Lambda, Cloud Functions)
• AI-powered anomaly detection
• Policy-as-code

Benefits

• Reduced human error
• Faster recovery times
• Happier engineers
• Lower operational cost
• More time for strategic work

Is Zero-Ops Realistic?

Not entirely—humans are still essential. But the goal is clear: reduce manual intervention as much as possible.