Forging the Future: One Platform to Rule Them All

OpenShift Commons Gathering Raleigh 2023
https://commons.openshift.org/gatherings/raleigh-23-oct-18/
October 18, 2023 ~ Raleigh, North Carolina

Speakers:
Benjamin Issa, Brightly
Shane Rowley, Red Hat

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Transcript

1. Smarter assets, sustainable communities. 08/18/2023 © 2023 | Brightly Software Forging the Future: One Platform to Rule them All
2. Introductions Benjamin Issa Senior DevOps Engineer Shane Rowley Transformation Architect
3. Our Vision: Smarter Assets And More Sustainable Communities • Cloud-based asset management software platform solving the mission-critical operational and planning needs of the built world Meet Net-Zero Requirements Public Infrastructure Education Healthcare Manufacturing 20+ Years Proprietary Strategic Asset Data Expertise $200B+ Asset Value Managed 160K+ Miles Of Roads Serviced ~150M Annual Gallons Of Water Saved 20K+ Annual Tons Of CO2 Output Reduced Optimize Budget Scenarios Reduce Asset & Infrastructure Risk Manage All Physical Assets Engage Communities Predict Maintenance Extend Assets’ Useful Life Maximize Uptime & Reliability Track Assets & Inventory Forecast CapEx Needs Note: Statistics represent management estimates.
4. Evolution of Brightly’s Products 1999 SchoolDude Founded education- focused SaaS EAM 2001 Launch of MaintenanceDirect work order management 2007 Launch of FacilityDude expansion beyond education 2015 Acquisition: TheWorxHub further expansion into healthcare 2017 Acquisition: Active Data expansion into event management 2017 Acquisition: Smartware / Bigfoot asset-centric EAM 2018 Acquisition: Paladin Data Systems government community operations 2019 Acquisition: New Energy Technologies expansion into energy 2020 Acquisitions: Assetic & Confirm expansion into EMEA & APAC 2021 Acquisitions: FHI & EPL healthcare & energy 2015 Acquisition: Mobile311 further expansion into government Clearlake Acquisition
6. Existing Challenges 6 • Siloed Technology Stacks • Desire for elastic product capabilities • Scale as platform services • Augment Siemens • Difficulty in providing organization-wide solutions • Friction between Ops and Dev Orgs
7. Platform Introduction: Approach
8. DevOps Bottleneck and Long Lead Times 8 2 Week Lead Time, Not Including App Development Cycle
9. Establishing the Team Fellowship of the Pod “Enabling rapid delivery by providing highly standardized, automated, self-service infrastructure.”
10. One K8s API to bring them all and in the darkness bind them HashiCorp Vault Red Hat CoP Vault Configuration Operator Kyverno Red Hat Service Mesh Red Hat AMQ Streams
11. Self-Service via Namespace Labels Vault Config Operator HashiCorp Vault RH COP Kyverno AWS Aurora PostgreSQL
12. Everything-as-a-Service • Namespace-as-a-Service • Database-as-a-Service • Deployments-as-a-Service (ArgoCD) • Pipelines-as-a-Service (Tekton) • Kafka-as-a-Service • ServiceMesh-as-a-Service (Istio) • Secrets-as-a-Service (Vault) • Logging-as-a-Service • Metrics-as-a-Service • Alarms-as-a-Service • Certificates-as-a-Service • Fine Grained Access-as-a-Service (SpiceDB) 12
13. 13 AWS Services - Infrastructure-as-a-service ROSA (Red Hat Openshift on AWS) - Platform-as-a-service Brightly Platform Internal Developer Platform
14. Inner Loop / Outer Loop 14
15. Testing Scopes Inner Loop DevEx • Rapid scaffolding • Testcontainers for Quarkus • Testability • Dependency mocking • API Contracts • gRPC protobufs
16. Outer Loop DevEx • Backstage IDP • Golden Paths (Pipelines and Apps) • CICD • Openshift Pipelines • Openshift GitOps • Seamless features • gRPC to REST Transcoding • JWT Validation • Feature Toggles • Service Mesh Enrollment • Code Quality • Integration Testing • Performance Testing • Debezium Transaction Outbox • DataDog Dashboards
17. IDP Catalog
18. Templates for Applications
19. Service Dashboards
20. Pipeline Views
21. OpenAPI Documentation
22. Four Golden Signals Dashboards
23. Impact 23 Developer Services Team Charter Consult (1 -2 teams) Pattern (3-5 teams) Scale (enterprise)
24. RACI
25. THANK YOU