How OXY improved developer productivity by over 90% with Terraform, Packer, and Vault

Don’t think of cloud as an end goal, think of it as an ongoing process or pattern. That’s the mindset that brought success to OXY when they needed to transform from an on-prem company to cloud while dealing with some cloud skills gaps.

When OXY, a 100-year-old energy company, decided it was time to make a big transition to cloud, they had an uphill climb:

• Their legacy, on-prem infrastructure had a mean-time-to-resolution (MTTR) of 2 days and a time-to-value of 222 days.

»Performing a HashiCorp BIA

HashiCorp partnered with OXY and helped not only with product support, we also looked at their process and provided a business impact analysis.

The things slowing them down were:

• Not enough cloud automation knowledge, so the organization defaulted to click-ops

• Too many tickets and steps to provision one environment

• Too many teams and touchpoints

• Needed upskilling to cloud automation and infrastructure as code

»Impact

• Time to value from 222 days down to 37-58 days with progress toward a 4 day goal

• MTTR from 2 days down to 1 hour

• Gained trust from the security with just-in-time secrets generation from HashiCorp Vault

Watch the video for details on OXY’s cloud journey as well as suggestions on how to deal with skills gaps; helping operations and other teams learn about developer concepts like Git and pipelines. And learn why you should focus on creating golden patterns or blueprints for infrastructure provisioning.