How we moved our environments to the cloud
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The document outlines a session on transitioning environments to cloud infrastructure using Azure Pipelines, discussing challenges like resistance to change and technical debt. It highlights Terraform for infrastructure management and Ansible for configuration management, presenting best practices and tools used in deployment. Additional resources, links, and insights into operational cost savings are provided as part of the overall strategy.
How we moved our environments to the cloud
- 1. How we moved our environments to the cloud
- 6. Green-field
- 8. Issues Problems Rare and troublesome releases Incongruent environments Resistance to change ‘Don’t touch it’ mindset Lack of Scalability
- 10. © Lara Paulussen
- 11. Change
- 12. © Fr. Lawrence Lew,
- 13. Infrastructure Application stack Pipelines Azure Pipelines
- 15. Unique naming
- 16. Seclude
- 17. Regions gotchas
- 18. Central US Environments East US 2 West EU Central US East US 2 West EU C E Sandbox LegacySandbox U Q D I
- 19. Central US Environments East US 2 West EU Central US East US 2 West EU C E U Q D I
- 20. Control costs
- 21. Tips
- 24. Terraform DSL resource azurerm_virtual_machine vm_demo demovm northeurope tf-demo azurerm_network_interface.vm_demo.id Standard_B2s MicrosoftWindowsServer WindowsServerSemiAnnual Datacenter-Core-1803-smalldisk latest demovm-osdisk ReadWrite FromImage demovm-datadisk Empty 100 DEMOVM var.vm_admin_username var.vm_admin_password true false
- 25. How it works
- 26. Language Limits (HCL <0.12)
- 27. Critical choices
- 28. Summary Terraform is easy Don’t push too hard Treat as usual code
- 31. Desired State Configuration (DSC) Configuration MyBox { # Install the IIS role WindowsFeature IIS { Ensure = "Present" Name = "Web-Server" } # Install the ASP .NET 4.5 role WindowsFeature AspNet45 { Ensure = "Present" Name = "Web-Asp-Net45" } #... }
- 32. Ansible --- - hosts: webservers vars: http_port: 80 max_clients: 200 remote_user: root tasks: - name: get latest version yum: name: httpd state: latest - name: write the config file template: src: /srv/httpd.j2 dest: /etc/httpd.conf notify: - restart apache - name: ensure running service: name: httpd state: started handlers: - name: restart apache service: name: httpd state: restarted
- 34. Summary This worked for us There are other ways Biggest effort Ready to host apps Gray area: pipeline deploy
- 36. Deployment Groups Azure Pipelines
- 37. Configuration Values Azure Pipelines
- 38. Summary Source control Source control Source control Deployment groups Key Vault
- 43. Money Project approved on cost reduction Estimate an X% saving on operational expenses
- 44. Side effects
- 45. Version control migration Azure Repos
- 47. Bio in pictures giulio.dev@casavian.eu @giulio_vian https://www.slideshare.net/giuliov http://blog.casavian.eu/ https://tfsaggregator.github.io Hardware spec: 1KB RAM (upg. 16KB) 4KB ROM First computer Companies Communities
- 49. To know more (cont’d) https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1491977086/ https://leanpub.com/the-dsc-book 1491977086/
- 51. The End