[1] ARA solutions must combine the capabilities of deployment automation, environment management and modeling, and release coordination.
[2] ARA tools help cultivate DevOps best practices by providing a combination of automation, environment modeling and workflow-management capabilities.
ARA tools achieve a key DevOps goal of implementing continuous delivery with a large quantity of releases quickly.
[3] ARA is more than just software-deployment automation – it deploys applications using structured release-automation techniques that allow for an increase in visibility for the whole team.
[4] It combines workload automation and release-management tools as they relate to release packages, as well as movement through different environments within the DevOps pipeline.