Case Study : DevOps & Infrastructure Automation on Public Cloud (Azure)

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Case Studies

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Date

July 10, 2023

Azure - DevOps & Infrastructure as a Code (IaC)Digital Transformation Accelerator

Wissen Technology.

With DevOps & IaC automation, Wissen helps customersto accelerate & fast-track DevOps and Infrastructure Automation withonce-click deployment to Azure Cloud.

CHALLENGES that businesses are facing today in provisioning,scaling, and managing the huge legacy infrastructure like creating virtualservers, installing software packages, creating users, starting code processes,etc. With these legacy systems, administrators need to perform provisioning andmanage all the interlocking systems and processes manually, which requirestime, resources, and specific skills to provision, scale, and manage theinfrastructure. As a result, IT teams often end up performing time-consuming,manual processes and managing through extensive and complex manual work, whichwould invariably drain resources and sometimes cause setbacks to occur but nowthere are solutions for many of these challenges.

Solution

In the digital transformation era, IaC offers better ROIover traditional methods, so organizations can maximize the advantage fromutility-based constructs by employing cloud computing solutions. They can alsorealize cost savings by utilizing automation strategies that prevent technicalexperts from performing error-prone, manual tasks and spending more timedeveloping innovative and mission-critical applications, this computinginfrastructure, provisioned and managed over the internet using IaC, allowscustomers to quickly scale resources as needed, and only pay for what they use.IAC solves the issue of complex infrastructure environments & IaC adoptionhas a multitude of benefits Increased transparency and accountability,Repeatable configuration consistency, Faster deployments, more efficientdevelopment, Essential in multi-cloud, and Cost optimization.

Wissen Technology helps customers with one-click deploymentfor entire infrastructure provisioning by automation which enables users tocreate the automation once and manage multiple configurations introduced by thevarious environments in Azure by leveraging Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines usingHashicorp Terraform and continuously enforcing Governance, Compliance &Security policies in alignment with regulations and standards to secureapplications on Azure.

IaC source code files are configuration controlled and canbe versioned, enabling traceability, rollbacks, branching & Mergingstrategies. IaC enables DevOps teams to test applications in production-likeenvironments early in the development life cycle. These teams expect to providemultiple environments reliably and on demand. Infrastructure represented ascode can also be validated and tested to prevent common deployment issues. Atthe same time, the cloud dynamically provisions and tears down environmentsbased on IaC definitions.

Outcome/Benefits

Azure - DevOps & Infrastructure as a Code (IaC) DigitalTransformation Accelerator, including.

One Click deployment for infrastructureprovisioning for any environment.

Deploy infrastructure as code into Azure,On-Prem, or other cloud platforms & Integrate with the many provider APIsavailable.

Automated CI/CD pipelines for the infrastructureas code using Azure DevOps Pipelines.

The offering will include a template for addingTF Compliance & Security using Checkov

Automation of every infrastructure includingsetting up IaaS & PaaS service offerings.

Scalability, Disaster recovery built-in withinthe provisioning.

Ability to easily add infrastructure with a verymodular structure of the Terraform code.

The offering also contains YAML-based deploymenttemplates that can be triggered via Azure DevOps.