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.