Security automation can look a lot like magic, and many feel a strong temptation to go buy $HOT_SECURITY_ORCHESTRATION_PRODUCT, but it's really not hard to get started automating SecOps with the tools you already have, free and open source tools, and a little bit of code. In this talk I will give a high level view of how a SecOps or other IT group can use automation to save time and effort. I'll walk through an example, with screenshots and code, of how to automate an ops process. I want to remove the magic from automation and present concrete ways for any ops team to do this. This is not a "no code required!" approach to automation, but it's practical and easy enough to get started.