1. Optimization of Infrastructure / Environments through Digitalization
Main Author: Srikanth Govindarajan (Senior Consultant)
Co-Authors :
Vijaya Ranga Kumar, Gopalan (Director – Consulting)
Abbaraju, Venkata Satish Kumar (Senior Manager – Consulting)
Cognizant Technology Solutions

2. Abstract
Today IT challenges are changing from managing the existing to being able to support rapid development cycles. Complex and inflexible infrastructure supporting many legacy systems – will be unable to support constantly increasing data volumes and changing regulatory requirements unless a lot of money is spent on building enough capacity to handle demand peaks. High capital expenditure on the capacity planning which is used minimally for most of the time is not agreed by the business.
This white paper primarily explores how to change the way you design IT services to support Digital Infrastructure

3. What is Industry Saying
Challenges – Business
Process: Specific challenges – acknowledge
Proposed Solution:

4. Problem Statement
Delay in environment provisioning and code deployment
Non standard Configuration and Release Management process across business units
Delay in test cycle due to environment downtime
The existing manual build and deployment process was very repetitive and error-prone
Prod/Non prod servers were multi-located with different domain controllers and so there were frequent network related failures
Challenges – Business
Process: Specific challenges – acknowledge
Proposed Solution:

5. Problem Statement - Cont…

6. Proposed Solution:
DevOps represents a change in IT culture, focusing on rapid IT service delivery through the adoption of agile, lean practices in the context of a system-oriented approach. DevOps emphasizes people (and culture), and seeks to improve collaboration between operations and development teams. DevOps implementations utilize technology — especially automation tools that can leverage an increasingly programmable and dynamic infrastructure from a life cycle perspective.
What is the solution pointer
I have the framework
Circle a diagram – Agillity in practice / 2
Experiences – Case study – somewhere we have implemented … internally realized. Include
Key Focus Areas for Enterprise DevOps
Infrastructure as Code
Test Automation Orchestration
Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery
Release Management, Release Orchestration
Log Management and Operational Analytics

7. Impact of DevOps on IT Infrastructure
DevOps needs to be integrated into existing IT Infrastructure with new tools and skillsets required for DevOps-driven operations IT/Operations.
The IT operations for DevOps needs to have knowledge of operating DevOps tools across 3 functional areas: Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment and Monitoring/Logging.
DevOps advocates automation of application configuration and deployment. By using tools to manage application configuration and deployment, these tasks become more well-defined, consistent, repeatable, transparent, and hence, less risky.
What is the solution pointer
I have the framework
Circle a diagram – Agillity in practice / 2
Experiences – Case study – somewhere we have implemented … internally realized. Include

8. Key Considerations – DevOps Infra Implementation (1 of 2)
Adopting DevOps for application development has a notable impact on the underlying infrastructure environment.
Key focus for enterprises adopting DevOps- Infrastructure Perspective
Adopt an Agile Infrastructure
Shift from manual to automated infrastructure environment build
In terms of infrastructure support, moving to the Agile methodology requires the implementation of continuous integration (CI) software, which enables uninterrupted delivery across the software development chain.
The infrastructure team plays a vital role in automating environment provisioning, which is a critical activity in DevOps implementation, while also supporting application deployment in software container.

9. Key Considerations – DevOps Infra Implementation (2 of 2)
Key focus for enterprises adopting DevOps- Infrastructure Perspective
Leverage release management orchestration tools

10. Reshaping Infrastructure Services - DevOps
Role of DevOps Team

11. 99% Environment Availability
Benefits
BENEFITS
Mean time to Deployment (MTTD) reduced by 75%
31,000 Person hours effort savings
5 times faster Release Cycle with DevOps
On boarding automation led 90% effort saving
99% Environment Availability
180+ virtualized service components

12. Standardization of Plutora
Plutora Implementation Success & Benefits
Standardized the Release Management process for 3 Large Programs. Move and Integrate onto main instance, creating and “Enterprise Instance”
Currently aligning and integrating KPCC program to Enterprise Instance (Plutora)
Accomplishments
Process adherence & Best practices
Effectively reducing transition time and effort
Scientific Approach
Enabling minimal variance between planned and actual timelines
Real time Dashboard
Allows the stakeholders to monitor & generate customized reports for schedules, efforts & timelines
Customized Workflow
Addresses the uniqueness of every transition
Gating Criteria
Facilitates a phase wise data driven signoff
Standardization of Plutora
Plutora
Sample Dashboard
After 2016 & beyond
Create a single documented process for managing all the releases
Well defined Enterprise Release Management Process & fully integrated with other processes & organizational tools
Improve coordination between the other BIO ERMs to ensure smooth and timely delivery of IT Services

13. Enterprise DevOps – Illustrative Toolkit

14. Summary & Conclusion
At any point of time an IT Infrastructure becomes out-of-date, the business would be facing serious problems, both in its inability to handle modern workloads and to take advantage of key emerging technologies.
IT Managers are constantly looking for ways to better serve both the business and also provide the applications. One powerful way to achieve it to boost the capabilities of their infrastructure
Few critical steps to realize the benefits are:
Embrace the leading Trends
Understand your application delivery from end to end
Get a “real-time data” on your infrastructure while automating processes
Solution is designed to the future needs to
I know the problem statement
This is the solution
This is the benefits
This is the differntiator

15. References & Appendix
Snapshot state of DevOps report, based on the survey of over 25,000 organization by DORA (Devops research assessment).
infoworld.com blogs
Cognizant internal resources / framework
Forrester report, Q & Q3 2015

16. Author Biography
Srikanth Govindarajan (Srikanth) is working at Cognizant Technology Solutions since February 2009 as a Senior Consultant, having 14+ years of working experience in the Process and Quality Consulting with expertise in model based consulting, ITIL and IT Process Transformation & Optimization. He is a Master Degree holder in Physics from Loyola College, Autonomous.
Venkata Satish Kumar Abbaraju (Satish) is a Senior Manager –Consulting with around 16 years of experience representing CBC - Process & Quality Consulting. His expertise includes IT Strategy & Governance along with TCoE Transformations and QMO executions. He successfully led a Divisional Advisory group to drive organisational strategy for a large organisation and he was also part of multiple process initiatives along with large scale transformations.
Gopalan, Vijaya Ranga Kumar (Vijay) is a Director – Consulting with around 17 years of experience representing CBC – Process & Quality Consulting. He is currently the Vertical Service Leader for Healthcare Practice. He has vast knowledge and expertise in QA Consulting, setting up Test Centres of Excellence, driving QA Transformation and in Test Delivery of Complex Programs.

17. Thank You!!!