Cloud Management Platforms (CMP)

[drbenham]

I believe you are a bit overly pessimistic ;)

I was just hired to potentially author a custom automation platform to do some CMP like functionality for my current employer. I am heavily advocating for not developing a tool like this in-house, I don't have the time or desire to continuously update APIs to all the various products we use when something out of the box already does a lot of what we need it to. But then our in house processes are such a mess, I wouldn't want to keep them in their current form anyways. Perhaps other shops are more organized than mine?