HashiTalks 2025 - Cloud strategy at a large scale automotive company: The next phase of our cloud adoption journey

Slides of my lecture for HashiTalks 2025:

https://events.hashicorp.com/hashitalks2025

Transcript

2. © HASHICORP 2 Cloud strategy at a large scale automotive company: The next phase of our cloud adoption journey
3. © HASHICORP 3 Cloud Adoption Engineer at AVL he/him GitHub: github.com/patkoch Bluesky: @patkoch.bsky.social Mastodon: @patkoch@hostux.social LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/patkoch87 Patrick Koch
4. © HASHICORP 4 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.” AVL List GmbH
5. © HASHICORP 5
6. © HASHICORP 6 The establishment of the AVL Cloudification Program
7. © HASHICORP 7 Source: kleinezeitung.at – 01.04.2024
8. © HASHICORP 8 8 Establishing a CCoE to lead and to support the transformation Source image: Image Creator in Bing: 24. September 2024 at 8:37 AM
9. © HASHICORP 9 Developing AVL’s cloud adoption platform Source image: Image Creator in Bing: 27. September 2024 at 8:36 AM
10. © HASHICORP 10 Enable all employees to gain cloud related skills Source image: Image Creator in Bing: 24. September 2024 at 8:46 AM
11. © HASHICORP 11 Offering and selling ~50 SaaS applications on Azure within 5 years Source image: Image Creator in Bing: 24. September 2024 at 8:52 AM
12. © HASHICORP 12 The initial situation
13. © HASHICORP 13 Large number of different software products ~150
14. © HASHICORP 14 Large number of different departments and teams Source image: Microsoft Copilot: 06. May 2024 at 1:29 PM
15. © HASHICORP 15 The challenge of operating the software applications in the cloud Source image: Microsoft Copilot: 23. May 2024
16. © HASHICORP 16 The challenge of securing the software applications in the cloud Source image: Microsoft Copilot: 23. May 2024
17. © HASHICORP 17 Enable cloudification for the entire company
18. © HASHICORP 18 Providing a cloud adoption platform to accelerate the teams Source image: Microsoft Copilot: 23. September 2024
19. © HASHICORP 19 Source icons: GitHub Actions: https://github.com/actions Helm: https://helm.sh/ Azure icons: https://learn.microsoft.com/en- us/azure/architecture/icons/
20. © HASHICORP 20 Ensuring consistent cloud resources
21. © HASHICORP 21 Improving the skills by establishing a cloud native developer community Image source: Patrick Koch, Roman Vrable
22. © HASHICORP 22
23. © HASHICORP 23 Obstacles & Considerations
24. © HASHICORP 24 Let the teams do it themselves or guide and control them Source image: Microsoft Copilot: 24. September 2024
25. © HASHICORP 25 Complexity of the infrastructure Difficult to use Complexity vs. Usability Source icons: Azure icons: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/icons/ GitHub Actions: https://github.com/actions .com/en-us/azure/architecture/icons/
26. © HASHICORP 26 Granularity of the Terraform Modules Source image: Microsoft Copilot: 19. February 2025
27. © HASHICORP 27 Lift & Shift vs. Refactoring Source image: Image Creator in Bing: 26. September 2024
28. © HASHICORP 28 How to enable access to a secure Azure environment? Source image: Image Creator in Bing: 26. September 2024
29. © HASHICORP 29 How to operate and maintain the SaaS applications 24/7? Source image: Image Creator in Bing: 27. September 2024
30. © HASHICORP 30 Example of a Lift & Shift approach
31. © HASHICORP 31 Source icons: Windows: https://icons8.de/icons/set/windows AKS: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/icons/
32. © HASHICORP 32 Conclusion
33. © HASHICORP 33 Deciding on a strategy Implementing the platform Using the platform for the SaaS apps Productive SaaS apps for the customers
34. @patkoch.bsky.social | linkedin.com/in/patkoch87 | github.com/patkoch | patrick.koch@avl.com Thank you