When does automating tasks stop being enough, and when does infrastructure itself need to become a shared conversation across teams?

In this episode of IT Infrastructure as a Conversation, I’m joined by Peter Sprygada, Chief Architect at Itential, for a deep and refreshingly pragmatic discussion about how infrastructure operations have evolved from scripts and isolated automation into something far more complex and interconnected. Peter has spent more than a decade working across enterprise networks, cloud platforms, and automation tooling, and that experience shows in how he talks about what has genuinely changed, and what has not.

We trace the journey from early network automation, born out of engineers trying to escape repetitive CLI work, to the point where automation alone starts to break down. Peter explains why automatio ...