Customer MeBeFake

Customer Profile

A random name for a random organisation and ABC Co. is truly overused, this example customer operates in the Large SMB market that has an Public Internet precense for online training and marketting.

It is estatimated that MeBeFake has over 500 staff and are looking to begin their multi-cloud journey with a three (3) year plan of to have sixty (60) percent of workloads bursting to CSP environments.

Customer Objectives

In a galaxy far, far, away someone had a terrible idea of creating a php application called Customer Application Portal (CAP - yes, I am a sadist). Customer MeBeFake (MBF) currently hosts ‘ne1MBF, CAP’, Customer Portal Application, on-premises an the primary objects of this solution is to:

  1. Provision Infrastucture as Code (IaC) for CSP’s
  2. Provide Integration of a Cloud Agnostic SaaS SRE solution
  3. Reduce ‘tool-sprawl’, Infrastucture and management overheads through manual processes.

Scope of Services

MeBeFake has nominated the on-premises application ‘ne1MBF’ as the Lighthouse application for the operational theoretical exercise as per previously listed objectives.

As such this document/site will be divided into two (2) distinct sections;

  1. On-premises
    1. Production Workload Discovery
    2. Production Automation (IaC & CI/CD flows) of Lighthouse Application Stack
    3. SRE Solution Integration of On-premises
  2. AWS Deployment (CSP)
    1. Production environment for hosting public facing workloads
    2. Shared Services for hosting/deploying applications
    3. NonProduction environments for Development/Testing
    4. Management & Audit (SecOps) environment
    5. Production Automation extension from on-premises to CSP
    6. SRE Solution integration extension.

Scope of Exclusion

The following items are out-of-scope for SRE Observibility deployment:

  1. Coffee, there just isn’t enough to go around
  2. Implimentation of CAP and supporting SSO/2FA integration
  3. Implimentation of, yeah, something for later I guess.

Assumptions

The following assuptions have been made during the implimentation of the Lighthouse Application - ‘ne1MBF’ - for this SRE Observibility project:

  • the reader, yes - you, has an understanding of the following:

    1. Linux - SysOp experience
    2. Automation;
      1. Terraform
      2. AWS CLi
      3. GitLab/GitHub (CI/CD)
      4. Scripting languages
      5. Docker
    3. Network, specificlly F5/NGINX
    4. Monitoring;
      1. syslog-ng
      2. telegraf & influxdb
      3. telemetry streaming

  • ability to rtfm