DEVOPS AUTOMATION
DevOps automation
A large company was running legacy IT systems with components reaching end of support: virtual infrastructure, software, tooling. The internal cloud platform had to be rebuilt around modern automation.
Re-platforming
End-to-end re-platforming from legacy systems to modern cloud infrastructure.
Full automation
End-to-end automation of deployment pipelines and infrastructure management.
Private cloud
A private cloud platform built on current infrastructure technologies.
Infrastructure as Code
All infrastructure defined and version-controlled as code.
Scalable architecture
Elastic infrastructure that scales with the organisation.
Configuration management
Automated configuration management keeps environments consistent.
01Summary
A scattered environment ran many applications on private cloud, mostly managed by hand and team-by-team. Renewing it meant changing both the platforms and the way of working. We delivered a private cloud with a full cloud automation suite, plus Ansible-based configuration management and remote execution to bring the application landscape up to a current standard.
02The challenge
The work was both organisational and technical. The new private cloud platform was ready, but more than 200 applications had to be migrated, and many of the reusable building blocks were missing or incomplete. On top of that, the teams that needed those building blocks worked in silos.
03The solution
We introduced a DevOps way of working: Scrum, joint backlogs, shared on-call. We coached the internal teams and advised on the organisational changes that came with it.
The new private cloud was fully automatable; what was missing were the building blocks for the different application types. We introduced configuration management and remote execution, then built the missing blocks together with the new DevOps teams.
Velocity grew steadily as the building blocks became reusable across teams.
DevOps, Agile, Scrum
Higher release frequency, more collaboration, better customer outcomes
CI/CD, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, Github Actions, Jenkins
Infra as Code, Terraform, Cloudformation, ARM Templates
Configuration Management, Ansible, Chef, Puppet
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The Factory builds and staffs DevOps teams. We help remove the gap between development and operations: setting up CI/CD pipelines, automating deployments, and getting teams to share ownership of what they ship.
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