How does automation contribute to the DevOps methodology? Provide examples of common DevOps automation tools or practices. Automation plays a crucial role in the DevOps methodology by streamlining processes, reducing errors, and promoting collaboration. It enables faster software development, deployment, and operations. Common DevOps automation tools and practices include continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) tools like Jenkins and Azure DevOps, infrastructure provisioning tools like Terraform, configuration management tools like Ansible, automated testing tools like Selenium, monitoring tools like Prometheus, containerization tools like Docker, incident response tools like PagerDuty, and release orchestration tools like XL Release.