Scaleable, Standardized and Repeatable Pipeline for AWS
Australia’s largest investment bank embarked on a multi year modernisation program including a data centre exit strategy in search for higher degrees of agility and system availability within their IT environment.
Challenge
- Complex current state (2,500 applications and 30 DC’s globally)
- High failure rate of application releases due to manual deployment process
- Limited standardisation of architecture reducing operational efficiency
- Costly on premise infrastructure with capacity management challenges
- Inflexible infrastructure unable to scale with organisation
Solution
- Highly opinionated system enabling the delivery of 1,000+ cloud native applications built on AWS
- Standardised and reusable infrastructure components that enforces baseline security that are pre-approved by security team
- Application aware, pipeline-integrated compliance engine with built-in support exemptions, approvals and service owner reviews
- Inclusion of self service application and developer on-boarding capability for non-production workloads
Results
The global investment bank has successfully onboarded 1000+ applications and over 2000 EC2 instances, and is currently doing over 10,000 CI builds per month.
Business Agility
- Rapid delivery of business applications
- Reduction in technical debt
Operational Resiliency
- Improved platform reliability, scalability and availability
- Reduced business risk during software releases (Blue/Green deployments)
- Improved security and compliance (enforcement of app aware controls)
Workforce Productivity
- Modern DevOps practice employed
- Shift to self-service culture (decoupled from external constraints)
