Our journey navigating the techosphere
At OVO we have many cloud projects which need connectivity to services in our datacenter. We have VPNs setup to securely route connections between projects and on-prem services. One issue with this configuration is name resolution within AWS VPCs. The DHCP op…
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This blog post looks at our experience of using AWS Step Functions to help us migrate customers into a new OVO energy platform.…
As a high level concept Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is a well established practice that is helping to improve the consistency and quality of infrastructure deployments. However IaC, just like all other code, can be overly complex, use poor conventions, and can build tech debt.…
As a growing company, we have decided to switch from externally managed CMS solution towards our own internally managed one. In this article, we will take you through our short journey of providing zero-downtime releases for our CMS in the world, where mainten…
To facilitate our migration from EC2/Chef environments to Docker/ElasticBeanstalk, we wanted to automate provisioning of an AWS Elastic Beanstalk (EB) environment and reuse it to build other environments. This article discussed how we achieved this infrastruct…
Some time ago we migrated all our services to AWS. This had many benefits, but we were still using the same deployment processes as before. As the number of services grew and our deployment process became more expensive, we decided to explore other options pro…