Ice Cream cones and Chicken Nuggets, help us visualize the break up of the monolith. The challenge becomes about how far do we need to go…. Don’t be fooled by the 12 factor crowd or the cloud nativists, there are benefits for cloud immigrants. This session discusses container adoption in an established enterprise with legacy code and unique challenges from paying clients. It presents an overview of the progress to date, the idealized automation pipeline and the desired end state.

1. Beyond Chicken Nuggets:
1 year and 1000+
containers at ADP
Jim Ford
Chief Architect,
Global Product
& Technology

2. ADP - Largest Global Provider
Cloud-based HCM Solutions
630,000+ Clients +35 Million Users
5 Million
Logins a Day
100+ Countries
Wide Breadth of
HCM Solutions
Best HCM Service
and BPO Offerings
2017 RANK
IN FINANCIAL
DATA
SERVICES:
#1
2015 RANK:
#43
2016
RANK:
100%
2016
SCORE:
#20
2014
RANK:
#19
2016
RANK:
#13

3. Innovation at ADP Today
HCM Spectrum
CAREER AND
INDIVIDUAL
DEVELOPMENT
RECOGNITION,
MERIT,
COMPENSATION
BENEFITS
ADMINISTRATION
ON-BOARDING,
LEARNING
RECRUITING:
SOURCING, SCREENING,
SELECTION
PERFORMANCE
MANAGEMENT
ENGAGEMENT,
GOAL ALIGNMENT
TIME & LABOR
MANAGEMENT
RETIREMENT,
SUCCESSION PLANNING

4. • Multiple legacy codebases
• Numerous versions concurrently in
Production
• Acquisition induced Multi-
architecture Syndrome
• Urban sprawl leading to Redundant
code and services
• How do we create developer
Velocity
…to the Multi-Architecture Syndrome
Grown Up Challenges

5. The First Year

6. The First Year

7. The First Year

8. Docker Docker Everywhere
469Engines
3771Containers
APRIL 2017
9100
Unique Images CI/CD
1000Containers
600Docker Engines
NOVEMBER 20
16
… on VM’s,
… on Mainframes,
… on Bare Metal,
… on Premise
… on AWS
… on Azure (Win 16)

9. • Developer buy-in
• Reduce Context Switching
• Getting to a “ Flow State”
• Security Scanning
• Noise vs Signal?
• ”Agile EA”
• Running with Scissors
Don’t Push, Pull works Better

10. • Don’t box yourself into
proprietary solutions
• Opinionated can help to a
point
• Seek out compliant offerings
wherever possible
• Standards are your friend
Avoid “Un-Necessary”
complexity

11. 11
Keep the ones that gain wide adoption…
Don’t Limit
Your Toy Box

12. Re-defining Trust Through
Automation
© ADP 2016

13. • Automate Everything
• Experiment
• Don’t Force Conformity
• Build Public, Run Private
• Stop Patching
• Start Replacing
• Log and Monitor!
Containers Work for Monoliths

14. Don’t Over Control
• Work to Disrupt yourself – Innovation Labs
• Experiment
• Docker Enterprise, Kube, AWS, Triton, Mesos
• The important part is getting into the container mindset
• Encapsulate, isolate, expose function via API
• Use API to enable new functions as Micro Services
• Evolution Not Revolution
• Recognize that UI has become “disposable”
• Enable polymorphic consumption with APIs

15. Thank You!
@FordJamesC
James.Ford@adp.com
https://developers.adp.com
@docker #dockercon