Operational optimization is an ongoing process, whereby continuous effort is required to identify the gap and improve upon it. Achieving operational excellence is a journey. There are always changes required in all parts of your workload to maintain it—for example, often, operating systems of your server need to be updated with the security patch provided by your vendor. Various software that your application is using needs a version upgrade. You need to make changes in the system to adhere to new compliance.

You should design your workload in such a way that it allows all system components to get updated regularly, so the system will benefit from the latest and most significant updates available. Automate your flow so that you can apply small changes to avoid any significant impact. Any changes should be reversible, to restore system working conditions in the case of any issue. Incremental changes help to do thorough testing and improve overall system reliability. Automate any change management to avoid human error and achieve efficiency.