Challenges
- Huge operational expenditure.
- Longer SLAs.
- Hybrid cloud with legacy on prem infrastructure.
- POS platform hosted on Virtual Private Data center and across geographies.
- 500+ servers maintained by multiple vendors.
Solution
DevOps for infrastructure provisioning, building hardened base server images and an
Infrastructure-as-a-code (IAAC) first approach, for better operational efficiency:
- Created and maintained terraform modules to manage the Azure infrastructure.
- POC on terraform and recommendations based on capabilities and limitations of the tool.
- Created base templates to generate new resources.
Benefits
- Leaner team for cloud-ops and standard templates and hardened images for infrastructure provisioning.
- Optimized infrastructure – scale up/down based on demand.
- Reduced operation cost – by leveraging Azure PaaS wherever feasible.
- Increased agility in infrastructure provisioning and related activities.
