Deploying Modern Workloads Azure: 4-wk Imp

Insight’s Digital Innovation team has deep expertise with GitHub, Terraform and Azure. Take advantage of our DevOps and automation expertise as we guide you through the end-to-end process of designing an Azure landing zone, writing Infrastructure as code (IaC) in Terraform, managing code in GitHub and executing deployment pipelines using GitHub Actions. In addition, we’ll assess your current environment, identify your biggest pain points and outline a strategy to achieve your goals.

This Fast Start gives you focused, hands-on experience with GitHub, Terraform and Azure, applying industry best practices and addressing questions and roadblocks along the way.

CLIENT PREP    before engagement begins

• Provide details of your applications, technology stack, and processes for development, hosting, deployment, operations, and management
• Provide an Azure environment to host deployments and a GitHub organization with all attendees configured as users
• Ensure the latest versions of Git, Terraform, the Azure CLI, and Visual Studio Code installed by each attendee

ENGAGEMENT 4 weeks

• Review Azure landing zone, walk through code, create the “go live” environment in Azure, and create corresponding summary documentation
• Identify Terraform Enterprise use cases, infrastructure requirements, workspace and organization design considerations, and desired pilot applications
• Prepare environment for Terraform Enterprise installation, migrate existing open-source state, and implement modules and applications, CI/CD pipelines, and 1-2 example Sentinel policies
• Walk team through installation, configuration, deployment, and module configuration
• Conduct 1-on-1 mentoring on specific scenarios and 1-to-many enablement workshops to ramp up team on Terraform Enterprise
• Introduce GitHub and explain concepts such as pulling and pushing code, reviewing pull requests, managing merge conflicts, branching strategies, and DevOps pipelines using GitHub actions