The aim of this presentation is to provide a technical overview of how we built a Continuous Delivery pipeline for one of our key clients. More broadly, we’ll discuss the path we took to get to our current state – including the successes, the surprises and the shifts along the way – because as is so often the case, it is the journey that yields the greatest insight rather than the destination.

1. Enabling continuous delivery for the enterprise
A Delivery Pipeline Journey

2. WHO IS ODECEE?
Innovation for the Enterprise
A digital world where technology is simple
and business gets what it wants
170+ staff
Banking/financial
services
Communications Logistics Insurance Government
Offices in
Melbourne &
Sydney
Digital
DevOps
Sprout is designed to collaborate on new ideas and develop
innovative ‘real world’ solutions.

3. WHO WE ARE
Anthony Scata
Senior DevOps engineer
Peter Hall
Lead DevOps engineer
• 2 years
experience with
AWS within the
enterprise
• Over 15 years
experience in
infrastructure and
scaling enterprise
web application.
• Over 5 years
experience with
AWS.
PROJECT
Tier 1 enterprise in Melbourne
Built a continuous delivery platform
Delivery of on demand, scalable environments
from development through to production

4. 4
Starting point
§ No AWS infrastructure/
capability within organisation
§ Single uncontrolled
development and test
environment
§ Shared across all
applications
§ Long lead time for new
applications entering
environment
Enterprise
§ Multi billion dollar enterprise
looking to modernise its IT
development practices and
infrastructure
AWS
§ AWS target platform for all
digital assets
End goal
§ Self service creation of
development and test
environments by project
teams
§ Blue-green deployment into
production
The Environment

5. 5The continuous delivery platform
§ Pilot AWS project
for the
organsiation
§ Uplift of development
processes / practices
§ Centralised
source control
§ Standardised and
elastic CI infrastructure

6. 6
§ Start bringing
security along the
journey early in the
process
Security
§ Developer buy-in
and engagement
Buy-in
§ Don’t strive for
perfection
Don’t be perfect
§ Show me
don’t tell me
Showcases
The continuous delivery platform - lessons

7. 7
§ Orchestration of environments leveraging continuous delivery platform
§ Immutable, self-aware and scalable instances
Environment automation
Cloud
formation
Puppet
Profiles
Puppet
roles
Data
Hiera
Configuration driven
environments
Puppet hiera as
source of truth
PaaS
PaaS style infrastructure
Support 40+ applications
within the digital business
AWS CloudFormation
Enabling infrastructure as
code from the ground up
DEV
TEST
STAGING
PROD
DEMOS
REGIONS
ELB
EC2
RDS

8. 8Hiera driven environments
Puppet Hiera:
• Hieratical key/value data store
• YAML based data
• Encrypt sensitive data with EYAML
Cloud - init
Puppet
Application
Deploy
script
Hiera
runs
uses
runs
Instance Provisioning
Application Stack Creation
Developed tool to retrieve Hiera values
to drive CloudFormation stack creation
and updates
Cloud
Formation
Template
(JSON)
Hiera data
(yaml)
Cloud
Formation
API
Build
script
(Python)
Web ASG
App ASG
RDS
Environment
Application
Stack
Calls Creates

9. 9Lessons Learnt
• Minutes is now too long
to wait for environments
§ AWS cost management
can be hard
• Get developers involved
with configuration
process earlier
• CloudFormation
templates are not a
programming language

10. 10Future roadmap
Containerisation
Environment automation API / UI
Wider enterprise
Chaos monkey
Service Discovery

11. Thank you
For questions / more information please come and speak to us at our booth or
contact us at enquiries@odecee.com.au
@Odecee www.facebook.com/odeceesocialwww.odecee.com.au www.linkedin.com/company/odecee
Philip JayPeter Hall
Lead DevOps engineer
@peterkh @imagineScata
Senior DevOps Engineer