Overview
A leading Australian Telco was running over 90% of their applications across thousands of on-premise virtual machines. To ensure future business needs were met and to deliver additional capability, flexibility and scalability to support the business, a majority of these workloads were flagged to move to a hyperscale public cloud provider.
Challenges
As a fast-moving business in the competitive world of telecommunications in Australia, the team faced resource constraints while managing a complex estate of new and legacy environments from a history of acquisitions. The focus was to increase the resilience, reliability and recoverability of their IT infrastructure while upskilling and introducing best practices within their internal team of SMEs.
With multiple competing priorities in a fast-moving environment, it was identified that a partnership was required with a provider who could document current state, define future state aligned to best practice, and enable their team to deliver on the transition roadmap aligned to their priorities.
Solutions
Before committing production workloads to a new cloud environment, DX1 was engaged to ensure there was a single source of truth to manage, scale, comply and secure public and private cloud infrastructure. The starting point for DX1 was to build a Secure Platform Lifecycle Management program utilising an infrastructure as code platform.
This enabled the organisation to introduce:
- Policy as code for automated compliance enforcement
- Cost controls and FinOps visibility
- Drift detection to maintain configuration integrity
- Version control across all infrastructure definitions
- A foundation for ongoing automation of cloud infrastructure via a centralised secure private registry
This has ensured that ongoing deployments to public cloud are compliant, secure, scalable and automated, so that future Landing Zone deployments continue to adhere to best practice from day one.