• “Developers always take easy path. • So if you make the easiest way the right way, then you have the right outcome.”- Suneer Pallitharammal Mukkolakal, Lead Platform Engineer, World Bank That’s the philosophy that drove the World Bank’s platform engineering transformation as they went from 5-day infrastructure provisioning timelines filled with manual processes and configuration drift, to a 30-minute self-service platform that manages 27,000 cloud resources and supports 1,700 applications across Azure, AWS, and GCP. • The backbone of this new strategy was HCP Terraform, which World Bank’s platform team used to build golden paths that make security, compliance, and best practices the default. • Learn how they turned their hybrid, “snowflake” infrastructure pipelines into standardized platform products. • This blog post is based on a HashiConf session from Suneer Pallitharammal Mukkolakal, a Lead Platform Engineer at the World Bank. • » Hybrid cloud challenges There were five categories of complexity challenges that World Bank was facing: » Manual processes - Click ops and ticket ops everywhere - Configurations done by hand across multiple cloud subscriptions - Manual processes leave fingerprints that become technical debt you manage forever » Configuration drift - Inconsistent dev environments that looked nothing like production - Lack of standard workflows to prevent drift » Compliance - New cyber threats and regulations emerging every day - Cloud vendors improving products constantly,

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  • “Developers always take easy path. So if you make the easiest way the right way, then you have the right outcome.”- Suneer Pallitharammal Mukkolakal, Lead Platform Engineer, World Bank That’s the philosophy that drove the World Bank’s platform engineering transformation as they went from 5-day infrastructure provisioning timelines filled with manual processes and configuration drift, to a 30-minute self-service platform that manages 27,000 cloud resources and supports 1,700 applications across Azure, AWS, and GCP. The backbone of this new strategy was HCP Terraform, which World Bank’s platform

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