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VA CLOUD MODERNIZATION

Aaron Wieczorek Digital Service at VA

June, 2018

USDS Project Goals

• 1. The greatest impact for the greatest number of people
• 2. Likelihood of success
• 3. Ability to scale across government

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Digital Service at VA Applications: Vets.gov and Caseflow

Current State

• VA spends more than $1.2 billion / year on hosting ~632 applications

in 363 data centers

• Service levels range from 75% availability for critical online benefits

services

• Presently this is an unfunded mandate

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These services cannot scale easily, be monitored easily, and are not reliable in the event of failover -- no development and operations collaboration culture.

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Problems with On Premise Hosting

Solution: Migrate VA applications to commercial cloud service providers, instill a culture of collaboration or “DevOps” in VA, acting as a force of change and leading by example.

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Tech Change and Culture Change

What is “DevOps” – Wall between development and ops hindering collaboration

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What is DevOps?

DevOps Wins: Massive efficiency gains, big wins for agility in deployment of applications, quick turnarounds on adding features and fixing bugs

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Wins for DevOps

DevOps Best Practices

• Automated provisioning
• Automated and incremental testing
• Automated release management
• Continuous deployment

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Current State

• 632 applications hosted on premises at VA
• ~125 in some state of DevOps culture
• 10+ in the process of migrating to a CSP

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Planned Outcomes

• Achieve huge cost savings, allowing more funding for veteran-focused

programs

• Reduce sustainment spending by 75% within three years
• Improve veteran access to online services to 99.99%, in line with

industry standards

• Ensure consistent security standards to protect Veteran data

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How do we get from the current state to the ideal end state?

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The Future of Cloud Modernization at VA

• Socialize SRE and DevOps

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• Bring VA Teams into the SRE org
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• Create Cloud Migration

Playbooks

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How to Get There

Rigorous Monitoring of Status

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P.S. We’re Hiring! usds.gov/join

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Aaron Wieczorek / DevOps/SRE, Lawyer, @USDS, @_a12k