Though IT automation is different from orchestration, but commonly, the terms are used together.Automation accomplishes a task repeatedly without human intervention.Orchestration is a broader concept wherein you are able to coordinate automated tasks into a cohesive process or workflow for IT and the business.

With IT Orchestration, you can enable workload scaling with automated instance creation, operating system (OS) installs and storage provisioning.Orchestration allows to integrate the automation tasks in a workflow with a specific order of operations for each task.Orchestration can also include approvals, permissions and roles enforcement and more.