Common Platform: Now with Added Windows
summary
ITV’s Common Platform runs on AWS and the plan applies the same DevOps principles and tooling to an on‑prem Windows estate, claiming automation will shrink operational cost and unlock a cloud off‑ramp. Specifics: Puppet on Windows works, monitoring uses Sensu and a move from scum to ELK with Winlogbeat, metrics via Telegraf/Influx/Grafana, and deployment tooling evaluation (Jenkins vs Octopus Deploy). Migration strategy phases p5→p1, R&D done, 171 Windows apps (down from 800).
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Start
- 2:39Some history
- 3:41The situation
- 5:08The Common Platform
- 5:46Key principles
- 6:17Standardisation
- 6:50Loosely coupled, highly aligned
- 7:12Blast radius reduction
- 8:28Principle of least astonishment
- 9:10You build it, you run it
- 13:54Logging (ELK)
- 16:30Small number of brilliant people
- 17:04Embedded/Divisional Engineers
- 18:35Core team
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