Accelerator Pack Enterprise Container Platform: 12-Week Implementation

Leveraging BlakYaks’ Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and integrated into the customers’ Azure DevOps CI/CD pipeline, our rigorously tried and tested ECP deployment process offers a rapid pathway to adopting a robust Azure-hosted container platform, prioritising both quality of outcome and deployment speed.

By eliminating the need for custom design and development, our Accelerator Pack for ECP solution enhances overall platform security, resilience, performance and stability, supporting our customers’ Azure cloud native journey effectively.

Solution highlights:

• A production-ready ECP: A pre-engineered solution for rapid implementation of an enterprise-grade Azure container platform, prioritising quality and speed. 
• Enterprise-grade and fully automated: Leverage BlakYaks’ library of proven enterprise designs, artifacts, and IaC modules while retaining ownership of the final design and code base. 
• Expert team: Our Accelerator Pack implementation squad delivers the stated quality outcome swiftly. We then handover to your operations team or provide ongoing support of the environment for as long as you want via our dedicated Azure SpecOps (Specialist Operations) team.   

Solution features:

• Rock solid ECP design : An enterprise-grade design for your Azure enterprise container platform, pre-engineered using our proven design patterns. Implemented by our team, our solution delivers the platform you need to support your application and platform modernisation strategy.
• IaC code and DevOps integration: Our Accelerator Pack provides customers with a fully automated enterprise container platform using BlakYaks’ Infrastructure as Code (IaC) codebase, and integrates into your Azure DevOps CI/CD pipeline (other CI/CD tools available upon request). Our automated deployment process to Azure has been rigorously tested, proven, and signed off by BlakYaks' technical leaders. 
• ECP Documentation: Our solution includes comprehensive documentation, encompassing design and operations runbooks, along with all associated design artifacts and IaC code modules fully documented.  

Customer scenarios - Our Accelerator Pack is suited for customers that:

• Seek to modernise apps with Azure and containers - Containerised applications and Microsoft Azure are strategic to the customer moving forward to support their application modernisation strategy.
• Need expert help for Azure container platform design - Customer appetite exists for a quality Azure hosted enterprise container platform, but they are lacking the capacity and/or capability to complete a detailed design and automate its deployment.
• Pursue a centralised container platform for long-term efficiency – Customers have used a variety of containerisation solutions already and realise a well-architected enterprise platform will be more effective long-term as a central hosting strategy.
• Aim to fill skill gaps in containerisation and DevOps – Customers’ application development teams are already pursuing containerised applications and cloud infrastructure teams are missing key skills (e.g. Containers, Kubernetes, DevOps and automation) to support the application development strategy effectively.
• Want to cut costs by shifting from VMs to containers - Customer wants to reduce cost overhead of running IaaS/VM’s to host modern applications.
• Require a trusted ECP for hosting modernised applications - Modernising apps using containers is part of a migrate and modernise strategy and customer wants a quality ECP platform they can trust to host these modernised or migrated applications.

Outcomes and benefits:

• ECP platform design excellence: With a focus on security, resilience, scalability and automation, the ECP ensures that the customer's containerised workloads can be deployed to the Azure environment, so customers can focus on driving business value and innovation, with the assurance that their ECP is equipped to handle all classes of containerised workloads .
• Azure battle-hardened and ready for production service. Our Azure ECP platform design has been honed over years of extensive work in the field, delivering these platforms to other customers across financial services and SaaS providers providing new customers with certainty.
• Fully automated reducing long-term costs and providing the stable operating environment your production applications demand.
• Application and Product team supported through mature DevSecOps and GitOps methods that teams in large environments typically advocate and embrace.
• Secure and compliant. Measured against CIS benchmarks with all the appropriate controls to mitigate and negate cyber-risks and threats to your hosted applications and services.

BlakYaks lead the way in building cloud native platforms (with DevSecOps and IaC skills at the core). Get in touch to understand how our Accelerator Pack for ECP can solve your specific container challenges.