Wiley’s Education Services (WES) leverages a mix of CMS platforms across their 50+ student information sites for major universities throughout the world. Traditionally these sites have been housed as part of a multi-site CMS install on a single VM, and eventually across 2 VMs. Failure of either one of these VMs would mean an outage for one or all of the hosted sites. As Wiley’s leadership looked forward, they recognized the risks involved with their current design and identified Docker as a way to mitigate these risks. WES began their investigation in to Docker to address issues of fault tolerance, consistency, and portability. They used this opportunity to modernize their workflows and reduce risk by promoting Docker images through their dev, preview, and production environments using CI/CD. This increased their confidence in deployments and reduced the need for maintenance windows. Early in the process, WES brought in BoxBoat as subject matter experts to accelerate their migration, and architect their Docker EE solution. Through the use of well-defined workflows and persistent storage, applications are continually redeployed and restored between environments with zero downtime and no loss of data. Additionally developers can pull down and run any of the sites independently with configuration that matches production. Join this sessions to learn about the challenges and triumphs that Wiley faced when orchestrating CMS deployments in Docker!

1. A Case Study for
Wiley Education Services
Modern
Orchestrated IT
for Enterprise CMS

2. Jesse Antoszyk
Solution Architect, BoxBoat
Blaine Helmick
Senior Manager, Systems Engineering
Wiley Education Services

3. • DevOps, Containerization, and
emerging tech consultant
• Docker Partner and a Kubernetes
Certified Service Provider
• Personal background in software
development and DevOps
engineering
Introductions
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4. • Founded in 1807 (212 years old)
• Publishes over 450 Nobel Laureates
• Wiley Education Services is the
Online Program Management
division of Wiley
• 60+ Worldwide Higher Ed. Partners
600+ Academic Programs
3 Internal CMSes
Introductions
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5. A “Hero’s Journey”
Our Story
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6. The Adventure Begins
• 2 VMs on AWS
• Drupal Multi-site
• MySQL on single VM
• Experiments to improve
on top of this failed
Design Team: Please make
recommendations/design
changes on infographic and font
for text.

7. The Adventure Begins . . . Realization of
Need
But . . .
Where to Go?
The
Impossible
Journey
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Design Team: is there a
better font we can use?

8. Servers
Unstable for
Three Days
DOS from
overseas
“Everything is
down; we have
nowhere to go
but up.”
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DISASTER!

9. Complete
Rebuild
Recognition
of Need for
Change
Coalesced
the Business
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The Epiphany
Design Team: this visual
is cool but the text is just
boring. Help? J

10. Journey to Chicago: Training, Analysis, Go-Forward Plan
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Heroes Gathering

11. • BoxBoat trains WES Teams
• CMS standup lab on Docker got
everything going
• Needed EE, DTR, CI/CD, and an
updated Development workflow
• Open Question:
What do we do with the
database?
The Right Tools
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12. The Solution
Design Team: please make
recommendations/design
changes on infographics

13. • Built new infrastructure in parallel
• Prod & Non-Prod Environments
• Created Git Repos
• Shared base Drupal & Nginix image
• New Developer Workflows
• AWS RDS Solution for Database
Triumph!
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Design Team: to keep
with any infographic
updates, please review
this as well.

14. Go Live Issues?
NBD.
What about
Availability or
Another DOS?
The Setup for
Scale and
Expansion
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The Road
Home

15. New CMSes and
Microservices
Worldwide
Orchestration
Spread Docker
Everywhere
Model for
Abstraction
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The Next Journey

16. Our Model
Centralize while
Decentralizing
Content
Infrastructure
Assets
Automate while
Keeping the
Humans
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17. • Your Journey Begins
• Partner with a Good Organization
• Build a Cross-Functional
Coalition to get it Done.
So Long and
Farewell
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