Digital foundations

Building digital businesses at the speed of the cloud.

Premises

• There were 350 Leap blueprints and Build Engagements last year with a software engineering component
• Almost all of these engagements required some Cloud, Infrastructure and Development Tooling set up to allow teams to get started
• Inconsistent approach leads to increased complexity, lower quality and increased risks and delivery times

Stages of Journey

• Minimal valuable product (MVP)
  • quickly develop a prototype with tooling and resources available
• Governance and processes
  • strategy to scale up by number of teams and products
• Long-term support and maintenance

Building blocks

• Source code management
• CI/CD pipelines
• Container orchestration
• Secrets management
• Authentication and authorization
• Monitoring, logging and alerting
• Resource provisioning
• Incident response
• Backup and recovery
• Pre-built and custom assets

Implementation strategies

Each function above might be implemented and integrated differently, depending on client's maturity and broader IT strategy.

• Generic cloud services
  • AWS, Azure, GCP, ...
• Custom managed services
  • GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket, VMWare, OpenShift, ...
• Self-managed and open-source
  • Kubernetes, Gitea, GitLab CE, ...