Micro Focus Data Center Automation is a solution that manages vulnerability risk and IT compliance across physical and virtual operating systems, databases, middleware, and container platforms. It offers vulnerability assessment, risk scoring, and an actionable risk dashboard to prioritize orchestrated patching and resolve top vulnerabilities according to Service Level Objective (SLO). It also provides a complete solution to automate regulatory and internal IT compliance risk across server OS, database, middleware, and container platforms. Additionally, it enables bare metal OS provisioning, virtual image OS provisioning, and software platform templates for scalable, automated provisioning of database and middleware instances. Finally, it offers extensible bulk workflows to orchestrate DCA functions and/or to integrate actions with external systems and processes.