About Client’s Business:

Cisco Systems, Inc is an American Multinational technology firm, headquartered in San Jose, California, United States, in 1984. It develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, software, telecommunications equipment, and other high-tech hardware and software products

and services. It has acquired subsidiaries, including Webex, OpenDNS, Jabber and Jasper, and nowadays, Cisco is globally known for its specializations in the market of Internet of Things (IoT), Domain Security, and Energy Management.

Project Information

Project Definition:

Need for building a distributed architecture of AWS and Azure cloud platforms for Cisco’s in-house team.

Pain Points/ Requirements:

Being a global brand serving in the IT sector, specializing in the network field, Cisco had to face many workload clashes due to using both AWS and Azure cloud platforms under one roof. Thus, they needed a distributed architecture for both AWS and Azure cloud platforms to keep each of their workloads isolated for better fetch and process resilience.

Solution Build Up Process:

• At first, we maintained Azure infrastructure and its resided resources, such as Azure DevOps, Azure Infrastructure, Azure Pipelines, solely with the help of Ansible and
• Automated and deployed Virtual Machines (VMs) through Terraform Code and ingested into the solution using Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines.
• Deployed DSC (Desired State Configuration) on the DevOps using Terraform to execute the implementation of the prerequisite software within the virtual machine, which was under deployment.
• Finally, deployed Fortinet Firewall VM and maintainer Azure Load Balancer, Azure Traffic Manager using Azure Marketplace.