What's the difference between DevOps and Automation?

I see that whenever someone does DevOps, it's mostly about automating things like deployment etc.

But where does automation end and DevOps begin?

A big part of DevOps is making it possible to release very often. That comes with automated build, automated testing, etc. You can say that to achieve its goals, DevOps need to use automation to be efficient.

Here's how DevOps and automation are related. DevOps is not just automation, there's more to it. Conversely, automation is not exclusively used by "DevOps people". A lot of automation was taking place in IT before DevOps came around.

Please don't consider to above diagram to represent all that is DevOps, or all this is automation. It is to help the reader picture how the two concepts are related.

StackExchange DevOps Q#3, answer score: 47