Challenges
- Strong need to transform a complex, legacy on-premise application (built completely on the Microsoft stack) to the cloud that would leverage native cloud capabilities to reduce overall cost and improve manageability
- The overall application environment was becoming increasingly brittle to deploy and to manage the configuration due to the array of interrelated component services
- Strong desire to modernize to DevOps practices and tools, but the team was inexperienced and unfamiliar with the concepts
Solutions
- CI/CD/Monitoring – Complete automated solution where all the entire environment is expressed as Infrastructure‑as‑code
- Compliance – All services are provisioned and configured automatically via Configuration Management
- Automation – All code and configurations are deployed in an automated manner
- Drift management – Configuration data for all resources is consolidated into a single database for easy management and maintenance
Tools & Technologies
AWS
Key benefits
- Complete one-touch deployment of the entire application stack’s ecosystem
- Full resource provisioning (through Infrastructure-as-Code) with security primitives as well as resiliency and scaling functionality
- Automated deployment of application components (code, libraries, related services)
- Comprehensive, automated configuration management of the entire application ecosystem
- Fully integrated into their nascent CI/CD pipeline
