Solution Overview

MeBeFake has currently has hosted infrastructure and application stacks in CoLo Data Centres at IBM Cumberland and FujiXerox Macquarie Park that is approaching capacity. SRE Observability of the current infrastructure and the expansion to Amazon Web Services will address the immediate resource constraints.

Solution Platform

The solution is a Self-Managed platform currently established On-premises using a mix of physical and virtualised infrastructure and the expansion to Amazon Web Services (AWS) Public Cloud will allow the flexibility to extend MeBeFake company security, continuity and scalability ethos.

MeBeFake SRE team develops, deploys and maintains the current On-premises ne1MBF application Stacks, this allows MeBeFake to have full control of the application stack providing best flexibility for the solution.

The SRE Managed On-premsise and AWS Platform provides infrastructure in a customisable multi-cloud environments.

AWS CSP Environment

MeBeFake Cloud environments consist will be a mix of the following covered in the scope of this or solution:

  • Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) for virtual networks
  • Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) for virtual machines
  • Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS) for block storage
  • Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) for object storage
  • F5 BIGIP & NGINX for ADC & Security services.

On-premise Environment

MeBeFake environments consist will be a mix of the following covered in the scope of this solution:

  • VMware vRealize Operations Cloud
  • VMware vSphere 6.7
  • NetApp FAS Storage Arrays
  • F5 & Ubiquiti network appliances

F5aaS CloudServices (SaaS)

MeBeFake will leverage the following SaaS offerings to extend both On-premises and AWS Cloud environments;

  • Beacon
  • Essentials App Protect (EAP)
  • DNS Services (DNS)
  • DNS LoadBalancers (DNSLB)

The Platform will extend current on-premises environments to AWS and will consist of 4 VPCs for Production, Development, Shared Services and Security Operations Services. Each of these VPCs have high speed dedicated network connections to the AWS DirectConnect (DX) from both IBM Cumberland and FujiXerox Macquarie Park DC’s.

The Platform subsequently has connectivity with the MeBeFake on-premise CoLo environments levering both PIPE networks and GlobalSwitch. Each of the VPCs span across three AWS Availability Zones (Data Centres) in the Sydney Region for high availability.

The solution includes a fully managed service consisting of:

  • Incident Management
  • Configuration Management
  • Patch Management
  • Monitoring
  • Auditing and Logging
  • Management of AWS Security Groups
  • Backup as a Service

Systems and Solutions

MeBeFake SRE team will include supporting both On-Premise Cloud Infrastructure and Guest Server Operating Systems. This includes management tools for patch management, anti-virus management, monitoring and logging of the lighthouse application.

While the underlying Infrastructure. network and server Operating Systems of the OnPremises Systems to the existing Infrastructure teams the development of MeBeFake SRE team for SRE Observibility project journey will also assist in the transition for OnPremises Infrastructure development pipelines.

Systems that are outside of MeBeFake’s SRE project scope are the following OnPremises systems:

  • Oracle Business Objects
  • SAP HR
  • SharePoint
  • Windows Infrastructure