SoftServe’s App Modernization Platform (SAMP): in 4 Weeks Pilot Implementation

About SoftServe

SoftServe is a digital authority operating at the cutting edge of technology. With expertise across healthcare, retail, media, financial services, manufacturing, and software, we implement end-to-end solutions, delivering the innovation, quality, and speed that our clients’ users expect.

About SAMP

SoftServe’s Application Modernization Platform (SAMP) is an accelerator designed to help you build a standardized and customized in-house platform, significantly speeding up your application modernization journey. It is a repeatable framework based on Azure Kubernetes Service that simplifies developers’ work with a documented, extendable, scalable, secure, and customizable platform that sets cross-team standards.

Due to the modular nature of the SAMP accelerator – interchangeable modules/platform components that interact via defined interfaces and are solution agnostic – it can be fitted to any other third-party solutions and immediately deliver value. Existing CI/CD pipelines can be easily plugged in and start deploying to your future self-service platform.

About SAMP Pilot

The SAMP Pilot is designed to offer a bespoke platform experience towards full-scale implementation. The activities performed are to accelerate the modernization journey with containers leveraging Azure best practices and infrastructure as code automation and provide professional services by utilizing the SAMP accelerator to build a pilot of your in-house standardized and customized self-service platform. Pilot onboard 1-3 applications vary according to complexity and dependencies.

What stages does the SAMP Pilot encompass

• ALIGN. Review your current solution to build a roadmap for SAMP Pilot implementation, identify requirements, and select components to customize the SAMP Pilot effectively.

• PLAN. Kick-off and align activities and roadmap with SMEs. Conduct workshops to adjust requirements for resources deployed and clarify components to customize SAMP.

• MODERNIZE. Evaluate the current application architecture and prioritize applications for modernization, adapt these applications for container deployment, and develop packages for containerized applications.

• BUILD. Deploy infrastructure and platform using Infrastructure as Code tools, configure Kubernetes cluster for scalability, compliance, monitoring, logging, and security best practices, and configure Kubernetes-related components.

• DEPLOY. Establish CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure provisioning and container builds, streamline the deployment of workloads, and perform platform optimization.

• DEMO. Demonstrate SAMP deployment results and outcomes, including Well-Architected Review results, and facilitate Q&A sessions.

Solution deliverables

• Deployed and operational SoftServe’s Application Modernization Platform built on top of Azure Kubernetes Service.

• Fully described through IaC, including Azure Kubernetes Service add-ons​.

• Pilot workload(s) modernized and running on the platform​.

• CI/CD pipelines for the platform, container builds, and workload(s) deployment​.

• Modular design with interchangeable modules connected via interfaces.

• Well-Architected Review report​.

• Roadmap for Full-Scale implementation.

• Demo of the Pilot outcomes and Q&A session

The cost and timeline for implementing a solution can fluctuate depending on the project's scope and complexity in alignment with the customer's preferences.