AWS Summit 2014 Melbourne - Breakout 4 As part of Vodafone Hutchison Australia (VHA)’s company-wide mission to win back customers, the VHA Digital Products division, with the help of DiUS, built a strategic internal agile development and innovation capability. By leveraging AWS, VHA now has the powerful ability to be more responsive, to experiment, fail-fast and in turn, to deliver an improved customer experience across all digital touchpoints. We will share VHA’s journey so far by looking at the business objectives and diving into how people, process and technology made it happen: - Making a business case for AWS - Working within a complex technology landscape including legacy systems, COTS products as well as custom-built systems - The role AWS played in achieving change - Enabling daily deployments using Continuous Delivery and other practices and tools - What's next on VHA's agility roadmap Presenters: Andy McCarthy, Digital Technology Manager, Vodafone Hutchison Australia, & Charles Blaxland, Principal Consultant and Cloud Lead, DiUS

1. The Path to
Business Agility
“How Amazon
made us boring”
AWS Summit Melbourne 2014

2. First off, introductions
Hello
my name is
Andy McCarthy
Digital Technology Manager
Vodafone
Hello
my name is
Elliott Murray
Senior Consultant
DiUS
&

3. The 5 Whys
• Why boring
• Why agility
• Why cloud
• Why continuous
• Why stop

4. Today’s format
Some business
reasoning,
technology
frameworks
& engineering
practice

5. Our Vision
“There has to be a better way…”

6. So… Why boring?
• Multiple releases per week
• Five-minute deployments to
production
• Single-click environment
builds
“If it hurts, do it more
often” – Jez Humble

7. So… Why boring?
• Multiple releases per week
• Five-minute deployments to
production
• Single-click environment
builds
“If it hurts, do it more
often” – Jez Humble

8. What does agility
mean
For technology, we need
to be more effective
For business, the world
it’s a changin’
The winners will be the companies who
can constantly learn and adapt

9. Why cloud and in particular
AWS
Cost is a factor,
but…
It’s all about
REDUCING
waste

10. Expect
things
to
fail

11. Infrastructure Resiliency
Autohealing, Failover, Autoscaling

12. Visibility with monitoring

13. Sleep
easy

14. Sleep
easy

15. Continuous delivery enablers
Remove people from
the process
Make infrastructure
a non-event
Hide technology
complexity

16. Why can’t we deploy at midday?

17. Infrastructure
as
code
CloudFormation, Chef, Ruby SDK

18. One click environments
Anyone, at any time, can stand up a full prod-like environment

19. Automated testing
Unit, integration, acceptance, canary, ...

20. Always deployable master
Using feature toggles or branches

21. Build pipeline
Gated quality control

22. Zero downtime deployments

23. Done means released
Unreleased code is inventory and inventory is waste

24. Deployments are
a non-event
Anyone can do it (really)

25. Deployments are
a non-event
Anyone can do it (really)

26. Mixed platform ecosystems
Amazon is not just for Ruby on
Rails Apps
How can we leverage AWS
capabilities and services for
COTS
You need to know when to
compromise

27. COTS Automation Challenges
Hard
coded
server
lists
Non-­‐disposable
servers
Product
configura7on
not
always
scriptable

28. Where to next?
Micro services
Splunk for business
Cross platform CI
Reduced time to production
Data manipulation
and Spot instances

29. PaaS / NoOps
Zero to Hero in less than 1 day

30. Immutable Servers
Don’t try to change me, love me as I am…

31. Application kick-start
Tooling to generate a project skeleton
plus all supporting infrastructure for a
new app

32. The goal
1. Enter project name
2. Generate
3. Deploy

33. The goal
1. Enter project name
2. Generate
3. Deploy

34. The goal
1. Enter project name
2. Generate
3. Deploy
Final
thoughts

35. Thank you
Elliott Murray: emurray@dius.com.au
@elliott_dius
Andy McCarthy: andy.mccarthy@vodafone.com.au
@maccathebaker

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