Automation versus Orchestration

By Lori MacVittie (F5)

Infrastructure 2.0 is not just about automation, but rather is about the orchestration
of processes, which are actually two different things: the former is
little more than advanced scripting, the latter requires participation
and decision making on the part of the infrastructure involved. 

Automation is the process of codifying – usually through a scripting language
but not always – a specific task. This task usually has one goal,
though it may have several steps that have to be performed to
accomplish it. [..]