Adopting a Cloud Strategy for a Large Enterprise in the Automotive Industry - DevOpsCon Berlin 2025

Slides from my talk "Adopting a Cloud Strategy for a Large Enterprise in the Automotive Industry" at DevOpsCon Berlin 2025

https://devopscon.io/cloud-platforms-serverless/large-enterprise-cloud-strategy-iac-usage/

Transcript

1. Adopting a cloud strategy for a large enterprise in the automotive industry PATRICK KOCH
2. Source icons: Microsoft, HashiCorp Patrick Koch Cloud Adoption Engineer at AVL he/him Mail: patrick@coding-community.at GitHub: github.com/patkoch Bluesky: @patkoch.bsky.social Mastodon: @patkoch@hostux.social LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/patkoch87
3. AVL List GmbH Founded 1948 More than 11,000 worldwide 4,000 in Graz (headquarters) 45 affiliates worldwide Export quota of 97% AVL List GmbH (“AVL”) is the world’s largest independent company for development, simulation and testing in the automotive industry, and in other sectors. Drawing on its pioneering spirit, the company provides concepts, solutions and methodologies to shape future mobility trends.”
5. The establishment of the AVL Cloudification Program
6. Source: kleinezeitung.at – 01.04.2024
7. Establishing a CCoE to lead and to support the transformation Image Creator in Bing: Mit KI erstellt ∙ 24. September 2024 um 8:37 AM
8. Developing AVL’s cloud adoption platform Image Creator in Bing: Mit KI erstellt ∙ 27. September 2024 um 8:36 AM
9. Enable all employees to gain cloud related skills Image Creator in Bing: Mit KI erstellt ∙ 24. September 2024 um 8:46 AM
10. Offering and selling ~50 SaaS applications on Azure within 5 years Image Creator in Bing: Mit KI erstellt ∙ 24. September 2024 um 8:52 AM
11. The initial situation
12. Large number of different software products ~150
13. Large number of different departments and teams Source: Microsoft Copilot Generated with AI ∙ May 6, 2024 at 1:29 PM
14. The challenge of operating the software applications in the cloud Source: Microsoft Copilot Generated with AI ∙ May 23, 2024
15. The challenge of securing the software applications in the cloud Source: Microsoft Copilot Generated with AI ∙ May 23, 2024
16. Enable cloudification for the entire company
17. Approach Number 1: Autonomous Agile Teams Alle Bilder wurden mithilfe von Microsoft Copilot erstellt.
18. Approach Number 2: Centralization Alle Bilder wurden mithilfe von Microsoft Copilot erstellt.
19. Cloud adoption platform as accelerator for the SaaS products Image Creator in Bing: Mit KI erstellt ∙ 27. September 2024 um 8:36 AM
20. Source icons: GitHub Actions: https://github.com/actions Helm: https://helm.sh/ Azure icons: https://learn.microsoft.com/en- us/azure/architecture/icons/
21. Ensuring consistent cloud resources
22. Improving the skills by establishing a cloud native developer community SOURCES: PATRICK KOCH, ROMAN VRABLE
24. Obstacles & Considerations
25. Let the teams do it themselves or guide and control them Image Creator in Bing: Mit KI erstellt ∙ 24. September 2024 um 9:02 AM
26. 2 6 Choice/Granularity of the Terraform Modules Source image: Microsoft Copilot: 19. February 2025
27. Lift & Shift vs. Refactoring Image Creator in Bing: Mit KI erstellt ∙ 26. September 2024 um 8:31 AM
28. How to enable access to the Azure environment in a secure way? Image Creator in Bing: Mit KI erstellt ∙ 26. September 2024 um 8:27 AM
29. How to operate and maintain the SaaS applications 24/7? Image Creator in Bing: Mit KI erstellt ∙ 27. September 2024 um 9:07 AM
30. Example of a Lift & Shift approach
31. Source icons: Windows: https://icons8.de/icons/set/windows AKS: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/icons/
32. Conclusion
33. Source: Microsoft Copilot Mit KI erstellt ∙ 13. Mai 2024 um 4:16 PM Deciding on a strategy Implementing the platform Using the platform for the SaaS apps Productive SaaS apps for the customers
34. Thank you! Danke!