Consumer packaged goods company
We put just-in-time IT in the supply chain.
Overview
THE CHALLENGE
The world’s largest beverage company had hundreds of workloads in AWS, without a dedicated IP space for each and with significant overlap between each, and lacked automated compliance with governance policies for its workloads. They needed a scalable mechanism to enforce consistent configurations across numerous disparate environments.
THE SOLUTION
We designed and implemented Configuration Management as a Service, powered by Puppet, and manage all of their AWS workloads, reducing operational support overhead and ensuring governance.
THE OUTCOME
By working with Ollion and AWS, the CPG company significantly reduced operational support overhead and acquired an ability to scale more rapidly over time while still maintaining control and governance over its deployed workloads.
About the Business
This Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) company is a global leader in the beverage industry, offering over 500 brands in 207 countries, 1.9 billion servings per day, 750 products in North America, and running over 100 promotions every year.
Challenge
The CPG company was able to handle Day 1 operations, like Disaster Recovery and basic core system patching, but needed a scalable mechanism to enforce consistent configurations across a large number of disparate environments. The company also wanted to enable automated compliance with governance policies at scale across a distinct set of applications, teams, and organizational units for both internal and external customer workloads.
The CPG company already had hundreds of workloads live in AWS. Without a dedicated IP space for each workload, there was significant overlap between each (separate AWS accounts) that required rethinking and altering the architecture - removing MCollective - to accommodate this design pattern.
Retrofitting these workloads without breaking them was one significant technical and business challenge the company faced. There were also issues identifying mechanisms to handle auto-signed certificates to authorize individual node check-in to the master server.
Choosing Ollion configuration management
After evaluating multiple Configuration Management tools, the company chose Ollion Configuration Management as a Service, powered by Puppet, in part because of its past experience in working with Ollion and in part because of Ollion’s expertise in the area and with the AWS platform.
Solution
Ollion assisted in the initial tool evaluation process, helped the organization through its internal procurement challenges, created a new service offering specifically to meet its needs, and handled the full project implementation lifecycle that followed - architecting new technical solutions such as an automated certificate signing process to enable check-in of new nodes to the master server without manual intervention. Ollion was responsible for 100% of the design and implementation, with the client team acting in an advisory, SME, and approval role.
The project took 2.5 months to complete and used Amazon Route53, ELB, EC2, EBS, Lambda, SNS, S3, Glacier, Code Commit, Code Deploy, IAM, VPC, RDS, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, and CloudFormation, among other AWS products and services.
All of the company’s AWS workloads are now handled by Ollion.
Business benefits
By working with Ollion and AWS, the CPG company significantly reduced operational support overhead and acquired an ability to scale more rapidly over time while still maintaining control and governance over its deployed workloads.
