Adopting DevOps that scales with your needs can be challenging, especially for larger enterprises. Since the perfect DevOps strategy varies for each organization, VirtusaPolaris has devised an approach for enterprise-wide DevOps adoption across three stages – Build, Deploy, and Manage. When NewsCorp realized they needed to modernize their IT infrastructure to stay ahead of a changing media landscape, they tapped VirtusaPolaris for assistance with Cloud Transformation including an Application Portfolio Assessment, migrating applications to the cloud, and DevOps adoption. While migrating applications, VirtusaPolaris helped NewsCorp define, design, and implement a DevOps model on AWS, then run and manage that environment efficiently, using a number of AWS services such as Amazon VPC, Amazon EC2, AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), and more.

1. Adopting DevOps at Scale on
AWS with VirtusaPolaris
James Forrester, Principal Solutions Architect, AWS
Aarti Sahni, Senior Director – Technology, VirtusaPolaris
Jim Pressler, Associate Director – Technology, VirtusaPolaris
Shaown Nandi, CIO, Dow Jones (a News Corp company)

2. Agenda
1. AWS DevOps Solution Overview
2. Challenges, solutions and pillars of DevOps adoption at Enterprise
scale
3. VirtusaPolaris DevOps Pipeline Approach
4. News Corp DevOps Success Story
5. Questions

3. DevOps on the AWS Cloud
James Forrester, Principal Solutions Architect, AWS

4. Traditional Development Models are Obsolete
 Business is increasingly software-driven
 End-users expect both continuous improvement and stability from
applications
 IT needs to be able to provision infrastructure as rapidly as developers
demand it
 An organization’s pace of innovation is largely constrained by their
ability to develop applications

5. Increase
 Business agility
 Application stability
 Ability to meet customer
demand
 Time spent on innovation
 Security
Decrease
 Length of development cycles
 Time to market
 Deployment failures and
rollbacks
 Time to recover upon failure
 Operational overhead
DevOps Can Help
DevOps practices enable companies to innovate at a higher velocity
for customers

6. Infrastructure
as Code
Microservices Logging and
Monitoring
Continuous Integration/
Continuous Delivery
DevOps on AWS
AWS provides on-demand infrastructure resources and tooling built to
enable common DevOps practices

7.  Provision the server, storage, and networking capacity you
need on demand
 Deploy independently, as a single service, or a group of
services
 Make configuration changes repeatable and standardized
 Build custom templates to provision resources in a controlled
and predictable way
 Use version control to keep track of all changes made to your
infrastructure and application stack
Infrastructure as Code
Replace traditional infrastructure provisioning and management with
code-based techniques

8.  Build services around the business capabilities you require
 Scale up and down as required with virtually no notice
 Make configuration code changes repeatable and
standardized
 API-driven model enables management of infrastructure
with language typically used in application code
 Free developers from manually configuring operating
systems, system applications, and server software
Microservices
Build applications as a set of small services that communicates with other
services through APIs

9.  Maintain visibility and auditability of activity in your
application infrastructure
 Assess how application and infrastructure performance
impact end-user experience
 Gain insight into the root causes of problems or
unexpected changes
 Support services that must be available 24/7 as a result of
continuous integration/ continuous delivery
 Create alerts based on thresholds you define
Logging and Monitoring
Capture, categorize, and analyze data and logs generated by applications
and infrastructure

10.  Model and visualize your own custom release workflow
 Automate deployments of new code
 Improve developer productivity and deliver updates faster
 Find and address bugs quicker with more frequent and
comprehensive testing
 Store anything from source code to binaries using existing
Git tools
Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery
Rapidly and reliably build, test, and deploy your applications, while
improving quality and reducing time to market.

11. Get started quickly
and pay as you go
Automate systems
operations
Scale without
infrastructure constraints
Improve visibility
and security
Leverage fully
managed services
Benefits of DevOps on AWS

12. Adopting DevOps at
Enterprise Scale
Aarti Sahni, Senior Director – Technology, VirtusaPolaris
Jim Pressler, Associate Director – Technology, VirtusaPolaris

13. DevOps Adoption at
Enterprise Scale
Aarti Sahni, Senior Director – Technology, VirtusaPolaris

14. Top Challenges for Large Scale Enterprise in Adopting DevOps
and Solutions to Overcome Them
Adapted from - DevOps and the Cloud: Chef and AWS
Challenge: Manual deployment processes
Take long time to setup new systems of software
Solution: Automation
Define application deployment in code for
complete environments
Challenge: Legacy systems and tools
Inflexible, hard-to-change hardware and software
Challenge: Organizational silos
Unwieldy divisions of responsibility
Solution: Dynamic infrastructure
Transform to disposable consumption based
on infra in the cloud
Solution: Increase co-operation and trust
Increase collaborations between developers
and operations

15. Challenge: Compliance bottlenecks
Compliance bottleneck at the end of a project
Challenge: Lack of visibility in to tools and
workloads Disparate tools adoption by different
teams
Solution: Compliance at velocity
Integration of compliance into the workflow
using automated tests
Solution: Increase visibility in to the tools
and workloads Harness the visual approach
through workflows and dashboards
Challenge: Infrequent, large releases
Fear of deployment due to risk to SLAs
Solution: Continuous delivery of
infrastructure and applications Agile and safe
delivery through automated release pipeline
Adapted from - DevOps and the Cloud: Chef and AWS
Top Challenges for Large Scale Enterprise in Adopting DevOps
and Solutions to Overcome Them

16. These Four Pillars are Necessary to Support Effective DevOps with
End-to-end Orchestration of all Pipeline Stages and Workflows
 Leadership
 Collaboration
 Fail fast, Fail often
Culture
 Security
 Self-Healing
 Compliance
Resiliency
 Lean
 Automation
 Holistic
Value Stream
 People
 Process
 Technology
Measurement
Agile and Resilient IT

17. VirtusaPolaris DevOps
Pipeline Approach
Jim Pressler, Associate Director – Technology, VirtusaPolaris

18. Integrated Processes and Tools Across the Application Lifecycle
Management is the Key Success for DevOps Implementation

19. Release Management
ALM
Collaboration
Testing
Operational Intel
Security
VirtusaPolaris DevOps Pipeline Approach and Blue Print Offers the
Flexibility Needed with Fast Paced Change in Tools and Technology
SCM Build RepoMgt CI
Config /
Provision Deploy Environments

20. Automation
Key areas of DevOps utilized
Configuration
Management
Regular
Integration
Automated
Monitoring &
Health Checks
Infrastructure
as Code
VirtusaPolaris DevOps Pipeline Approach and Blue Print Offers the
Flexibility Needed with Fast Paced Change in Tools and Technology

21. Scenario 1: DevOps Solution for Highly-scalable and Reliable Web
Applications in Cloud

22. Service1 Build
Artifacts/DockerFile
Service2 Build
Artifacts/DockerFile
Service3 Build
Artifacts/DockerFile
Service4 Build
Artifacts/DockerFile
Service1 Image Service2 Image
Service3 image Service4 Image
GitHub
Docker Hub
Pull Docker Images
Git Clone Repo
Docker Compose
Kubernetes
AWS ECS
Docker Engine
REST API
Docker Host
Service Container
Service Container
Service Container
Scenario 2: DevOps Solution to Deploy Microservices
Using Containers
Docker Host
Service Container
Service Container
Service Container

23. News Corp Success Story
Shaown Nandi, Dow Jones

24. Dow Jones

25. Cloud Transformation Journey
 Save $100 Million annually
 Reduce from 50 data
centers globally to 6
 75% of computational
power in the Cloud
Audacious goals set in
FY14 by News Corp
60%
Dow Jones cloud compute
400%
Increase in AWS instances

26. Dow Jones DevOps Journey to the Cloud With VirtusaPolaris
and AWS
Challenges Build DevOps
pipeline/Tools
muscle
Preparation
Dev Ops Assessment
Transition to
Dev Ops
mindset / culture
Cloud of the
Future
Cloud/AWS skillsets
AWS training
Benefits

27. Dow Jones Faced Many of the Same Challenges asAny Large
Enterprise Resulting in Slowing Down Cloud Transformation
 Lack of a cohesive approach to cloud deployment strategy due to
Organization silos
 Manual application deployments lacking agility and resiliency due
to less or no automation of many legacy apps
 Longer release cycles that in turn increased the time to market
 Lack of visibility of tools at enterprise level
 Lack of unified DevOps pipeline with flexibility to support any LOB
specific use cases
 Infrastructure provisioning as bottleneck due to manual processes
 Compliance bottleneck towards the far end slowing down
releases further

28. Dow Jones DevOps Journey with VirtusaPolaris
Mindset / Culture
Ideas Generation
Dev Ops Assessment
Review current
practices/SDLC/App design
Create DevOps based
solution ideas &
interate
New Landing Zone (AWS
Account per BU, Application
Build and Deploy Automation)
On boarded several
business units
Several LOB application
have moved to the new
landing zone. Jenkins based
CI/CD. Terra-form templates.
Training-Cloud
Skillsets
Early 2017Early 2016

29. VirtusaPolaris laid the foundation of DevOps Pillars and applied winning
strategies to accelerate Dow Jones’AWS Cloud transformation journey
VirtusaPolaris crafted a unified DevOps pipeline leveraging powerful combination of Jenkins, AWS CloudFormation and Terraform harnessing the visual
approach through workflows and dashboards. Standardized and automated the Infrastructure as a Code accelerating the development cycles

30. Benefits Realized
Improved business
agility to roll out new
services with the help
of end-to-end
infrastructure and
application delivery
automation
Accelerated cloud
adoption by ensuring
a unified deployment
strategy across
different infrastructure
environments
Significantly reduced
total cost of
ownership by
providing enterprise
wide solutions and re-
usable templates and
repeatable process
using DevOps
pipelines
Increased visibility in
to the workloads with
different dashboards
(CloudFormation,
Jenkins, CloudHealth
etc.)
Enhanced usability
of the workflow by
leveraging Terraform
which was easily
readable and auditable
Reduced operational
cost by implementing
a disposable and
consumption based
infrastructure model
using CloudFormation,
Terraform and Jenkins
deployment workflow
While the Initiative is Ongoing, the Transformation Towards
DevOps is Already Delivering Positive Results to the Business
and to IT

31. While the Initiative is Ongoing, the Transformation Towards
DevOps is Already Delivering Positive Results to the Business
and to IT
Code Commit
Integration
Deployment
QA/Staging
Deployment Prod
Before DevOps Adoption
Random
Monthly
Monthly
Quarterly
After DevOps Adoption*
100s a day
3 times a day
Every 2 weeks
Every 2 weeks
* Per Product team

32. Questions?
For more information please visit: http://www.virtusapolaris.com/
Aarti Sahni | Senior Director, Technology, VirtusaPolaris
asahni@virtusapolaris.com
Jim Pressler | Associate Director, Technology, VirtusaPolaris
jpressler@virtusapolaris.com
Shaown Nandi | Chief Information Officer, Dow Jones
shaown@dowjones.com