This document discusses the New South Wales Department of Industry's cloud adoption journey. It summarizes their goals to migrate business-critical applications from six on-premise data centers to the cloud in 18 months while minimizing business disruption. It outlines their three-phase approach, including establishing core infrastructure, migrating applications, and optimizing and automating processes. Benefits included increased resilience, agility, and ability to support future changes. Lessons learned emphasized leadership support, managing commercial learning curves, and prioritizing quality over speed.
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8. NSW Department Of Industry
Cloud Adoption Journey
Building a Platform for Innovation
Michael Cracroft
Chief Security & Technology Officer
Service NSW
9. Cloud Transformation: Mission Improbable?
We set out to transition the departments’ business-critical
applications and services from six on-premise legacy data-
centres, into the cloud in 18 months.
10. Cloud Transformation: Mission Improbable?
We set out to transition the departments’ business-critical
applications and services from six on-premise legacy data-
centres, into the cloud in 18 months.
Objectives:
● Minimal Business Disruption
● Optimise for resilience, performance and security
● Develop Machinery of Government Capability
● Empower and Enable Internal Staff
11. Landscape: Variety and Complexity
Purpose: “Create Conditions for NSW to Prosper”
Multiple Agencies:
● Primary Industries
● Crown Lands and Water
● Liquor Gaming NSW
● BioSecurity & Food Authority Authority
● Destination NSW
● Office of Small Business Commissioner
6000+ staff
200+ Regional Offices
500+ Hosted Business Applications
12. The Challenge: “Burning Platform”
Business Risk: Legacy data centres had grown in
complexity and risk due to various ‘Machinery of
Government’ transitions.
Environmental Risks:
● Power
● Cooling
● Virtualisation / Storage
● Network - Failover Capacity Insufficient
Customer Expectations:
● Secure, ‘Always on’ Government
● Performance / Speed
● Digital Innovation
13. Digital Platform Transformation
Cloud Strategy…. Why?
Stability
Resilience
Security
Scale
& Performance
Innovation digital NSW
Machinery of Government (MOG)
Automation, Efficiency
Segmentation, Audit trail
Physical Security
24X7 Digital Government
Infrastructure Reform
14. Transition to Cloud: 3 Phase Approach
Phase 1:
Core Infrastructure
Establish Account
Structure / Policies
Build VPC Template
Resilient Core
Network / Internet
Upgrade
Build and Transition
Core Services.
Phase 2:
App Migration
Replicate Application
Data
Capture Application
Dependencies
Develop Test Scripts
to Measure success
Refine & Accelerate
Process (25
Apps/Wk)
Phase 3:
Optimise & Automate
Cost Optimisation
Build Out Reference
Architecture Patterns
Automate &
Standardise Build
Processes
Leverage Serverless /
Services
15. Transition to Cloud: Managing the Outcome
Things could have easily gone awry.
● Building trust with the business and within IT
● Professional Services engaged for Security /
Architecture support.
● Listening to our customers’ needs throughout.
● Contingency Planning - Systematic approach to
connectivity / performance testing.
● Regular sprint reviews and adjustments made.
16. Agile Project Approach
Application of Agile / Lean Methodology to Enable High-Performing IT Teams.
“Digital Kanban”
Todo
(Backlog)
Work in
Progress
Today
(Now)
Roadblocks DoneSprint Plan
FLOW
17. Transition to Cloud - Platform for Innovation
“3 Data Centres in 20 Minutes”
Automation
Infrastructure As Code
A B C
18. Building a Platform for Innovation
Managed Cloud Services
Managed Cloud Services
Customer
Account
Shared Services
Shared
QA
Dev
Cost Management
Backup & Recovery
Security & Risk
Logging and Auditing
Patching / System Updates
Internet In/Out
Code Repository / Deployment Tools
On-Boarding (Cloud Migration)
SQL Enterprise / Oracle Platform
A B C
A B C
Prod
QA
Dev
A B C
A B C
A B C A B C
19. Cloud Hosted
● Resilient Core
Infrastructure
● Multi-Zone
Data Protection
● Manual
Recovery
Procedure
Base-Camp 1
● SQL “Always-On”
Synchronous Data
Replication.
● Semi-Automated
Single Instance
Recovery
Base Camp 2
● Application Load-
Balancing
● Automated Multi-
Facility Recovery
Base Camp 3
● Auto-Scaling
● Automated
Recovery
● Infrastructure
as Code
● CI/CD Pipeline
● Blue/Green
Deployments
Base Camp 4
● Serverless
Architecture
● Platform
Services
SaaS
Legacy
“DR” for
On-Prem
DC’s
Stability SecurityResilience Transformation Innovation
Scale &
Performance
Cloud Adoption Journey
Supporting our customers’ journey to resilient applications.
20. De-Risking Deployments
Operational Excellence and Assurance.
Operational Excellence will be
achieved through development of a
continuous improvement culture.
Continuous
Assurance
Deployment
Reference
Architecture
Industry Best
Practices, Peer
Review /
Feedback
Business
Requirements
Incremental
Improvements
- Small Batch
Sizes
● Reference Architecture is based upon
operational excellence and customer feedback,
transparent and referenceable.
● Small Batch, Incremental Deployments -
incremental updates for customers, stakeholders
and internal teams.
● Continuous Assurance Automating and Applying
the feedback from deployments to support low
cost, low risk releases.
21. Transition to Cloud: Lessons Learnt
Executive support / leadership is crucial.
Don’t underestimate the commercial learning curve required.
There is a trade off between speed and getting things right first time!
Quality = Speed
Doing the impossible is just doing lots of achievable things back-to-back with great
people and lots of determination.
22. Cloud Transition
Team
“Principles”
1. Look after Yourself and Others
2. Collaboration is Key to Success
3. Everyone is a Customer
4. Secure by Design
5. Minimum Viable Product / Bureaucracy
6. Identify & Eliminate Waste (LEAN)
7. Requirements Before Solutions
8. Well Architected Where Possible (Anti-Fragile)
9. No RFC, No Action
10. Cloud First
11. Scientific Method - Plan, Do, Check, Act
12. Checklists for Today (Define Processes)
13. Automate For Tomorrow
14. Use Data to Drive Decisions
15. Investigate Failure (Learning Culture)
23. Transition to Cloud: Benefits
Supporting our customers to deliver value to the community - robust, agile and
flexible services.
Compound Interest of Cloud capability.
● Faster fault resolution
● Increased capacity to manage scale
● Incremental ongoing improvement program
● Machinery of Government transitions, faster and more reliable. (On boarded
agencies become cloud enabled by default)
Significant reduction in major / critical outages, zero in cloud platform transition.
Team is an established Cloud Centre of Excellence, 75% certified, aiming for 100%
within the year.
24. The journey so far
2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Infrastructure Applications
Data /
Algorithms
Transition to Cloud:
● Evaluation
● Proof of Concept
● Disaster Recovery
● Shared Services Platform
● Core Infrastructure Transitioned
Insights
Business Applications Migrated..
● 900+ Application Servers in cloud (90%)
● 850 Customer Databases Migrated
● 830 Terabytes of Customer Data Hosted
Onboarding Automation and
Governance as a Service (OAGaaS)
Innovation Platform Established...
Stability SecurityResilience Transformation Innovation
Scale &
Performance
Disaster
Recovery