Situation
Cloud strategy
As an enterprise in the healthcare space, this company had to make sure their cloud migration was smooth.
In an earlier engagement, Sketch Development Services provided the client with a Cloud Enablement strategy, laying out a plan to productize the Cloud Center of Excellence's (CCoE's) services and tools for easier cloud adoption by the client’s development teams. In tandem with that is a ramped-up roll out whereby a CCoE Migration Team (or Teams) would assist dev teams in integrating these IaC tools, identifying any gaps or issues with CCoE’s toolset along the way.
The client asked Sketch to help establish a migration team, establish some standard processes and best practices, then start moving Centene applications into AWS.
Sketch and the CCoE team already spent time prior to this engagement building some prerequisites.
Cloud assets we already had
- Infrastructure-asCode (“IaC”) products using CDKtf
- Quick-start templates for easy team adoption
- Documentation in the form of a Wiki to help explain the function and usage of these products
The migration team’s goal was to start porting some applications into AWS using these tools and products. As this was the first integration of these tools with teams outside of the CCoE scope, it was expected that the road would be bumpy, but this team would smooth things out for future iterations of the IaC integration.
Cloud migration services
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Sketch brought some veteran AWS developers who also have a wide range of experience in automation, CICD pipelines, DevOps tools, IaC, system integrations, and programming languages.
The primary goal was to find commonalities and patterns to make each migration repeatable (in other words, “fast!”).
Still, because no two teams are identical, we worked closely alongside the client’s team members to gain an understanding of their specific needs.
This helped everyone feel confident that we'd identified the best path forward for migration into AWS.
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