Post Graduate Program in Cloud Computing (PGP-

CC)

Case Analysis (Cloud native DevOps)

INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES

1. Please review the format before proceeding

Section Questions Points

The case study literature

Answer all the questions based on your understanding of 3 C/I

the case study

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3. All questions are mandatory

4. This is an open book/internet submission

5. Wherever applicable candidates should clearly explain the reasons for their
answers

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snapshot can be pasted in the document. You can use any architecture-drawing tool
as well.

7. Any handwritten diagrams etc. must have all writings in capital letters. Illegible
text will be marked as incorrect response.

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 Case data
About lululemon athletica
lululemon athletica can stand up development environments in minutes instead of
days, automate its environment, and enable continuous integration and deployment
using AWS. The Canadian company sells yoga-inspired apparel and other clothing at
more than 350 locations throughout the world. The company runs its dev and test
environments—as well as an upcoming mobile app—on the AWS Cloud.

The Challenge
Several years ago, lululemon decided to offer more digital services and push out new
applications and features faster. However, the company had a limited ability to
quickly develop new applications because of its collocated IT environment. “We
didn’t have the ability to move as quickly as we needed to,” says Sam Keen, director
of product architecture, who was recently hired to design and implement the
environment for new products.

As an example, it typically took lululemon developers several days to stand up

development environments for testing new features. “It was too costly and not fast
enough,” says Keen. “Even small-scale experiments took too much time.”
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continuous integration and delivery focus. “For our continuous integration and
delivery pipeline, we needed to simplify management and automate as many
development processes as possible,” says Keen.

Why Amazon Web Services

lululemon chose Amazon Web Services (AWS) as the platform for its development,
test, and production environments. “AWS is a proven cloud provider, and I had great
experiences with AWS at previous companies I worked for. Its breadth of services is
unprecedented,” Keen says. “Also, the large and ever-increasing catalog of basic
AWS services enables us to spend more time on our specific product code bases,
rather than spending time implementing and maintaining a custom queueing
solution.”

lululemon uses a variety of AWS services to engineer a fully automated, continuous

integration and delivery system. The company uses AWS CloudFormation templates
to define its complete development environment. “Everything we deploy, whether in
development or production, is driven by CloudFormation,” says Keen. The company's
infrastructure uses immutable components that do not need additional
configuration once deployed. lululemon deploys immutable artifacts distributed
via Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). These are deployed to servers
using AWS CodePipeline, a continuous-delivery service that enables fast, reliable

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 application updates. From this stage, the artifacts are deployed to AWS Elastic
Beanstalk, a service for deploying and scaling web applications and services.

lululemon also takes advantage of the Amazon Cognito service to create unique
identities for users and authenticate them using internal user pools. In addition to its
development environment, the company plans to run a customer-facing mobile app
on the AWS Cloud, using Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances.
The app includes customized content specific to the communities where lululemon
stores are based.

The Benefits

Relying on AWS services to automate and simplify its dev and test environments,
lululemon can decrease its development time. “Instead of taking two days to build a
new production account, we can do it in minutes using AWS CloudFormation
templates and AWS CodePipeline,” says Keen. “That means we can launch
small-scale projects that cost very little and take very little time to set up. With that
agility, we can experiment and get to the best solutions, rather than having to settle
for what we have resources for. Using AWS, we can push out new features and
applications much faster than we could previously.”

With a simplified development approach containing few manual steps, lululemon

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h a s a l so e n h anced the manageability of its environment. “Because all
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infrastructure
is defined by AWS CloudFormation, we have a single source of truth. An
infrastructure change only needs to occur in one place, and we can see the potential
impact of that change,” says Keen. “Also, because the CloudFormation templates are
in source control, we gain that aspect of change control. The value that AWS
CloudFormation brings to our developers is huge.”

lululemon also has improved its development system transparency. “We get a very
simple visualization of the pipeline using AWS,” says Keen. “Any continuous
integration and deployment pipeline should be automated, easy to manage, and
discoverable, and that’s exactly what we get using AWS. We get a level of simplicity
and transparency we simply couldn’t have using our previous on-premises
environment.”

By basing the services supporting its mobile app on AWS, the company is building
digital tools to enable lululemon to better engage local communities. “As a result,
lululemon employees can more easily build dynamic content that best aligns with
consumers’ interests. Based on the success we’ve seen so far, we plan to create and
run additional new applications on AWS. Moving to AWS was a great decision for our
business.”

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 Source of case study
https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/lululemon-athletica/

Questions (all are mandatory)

1. What according to you are the drivers that compelled Lululemon to consider such
an implementation?
2. Prepare the list of services used by Lululemon and the reasons for the selection?
3. Prepare a list of core benefits that were realized by Lululemon? Assume you are
working for/with a company that intends to embark on such a journey.

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