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Welcome to this lesson where I want to talk about the fictitious organization
I'll be using throughout the course Animals for Life. I want every situation,
architecture and demo in this course to have a foundation in the real world and
I want to do this to help you visualize and understand the why behind the things
we'll discuss and implement together. To do that I wanted to create a scenario.
So, Animals for Life is the scenario that I'll be using throughout the course.
So before we get started with the course, I want to quickly run through the scenario
and don't worry, it's going to be easy.
be high level so I'll keep it brief. Now Animals for Life is an animal rescue and awareness
organisation. Depending on the region they're involved with local animal rescue and medical
care and then rehoming of domestic animals or habitat work for wild animals. Now they're
a progressive organisation and they're involved in lots of monitoring work so this can be
things like monitoring animal migration as well as monitoring any habitat destruction which is
going on worldwide. And so the work the company does involves IoT as well as big data sets.
Now they're a global company with a headquarters in Brisbane housing 100 or so staff. Now this
covers shared operations so it's a call centre, general administration, IT staff, marketing,
accounting, legal and accounts. Beyond Brisbane, there are 100 or so remote field workers who
are deployed in regional Australia and various in-need locations globally. Now these remote
staff are a mixture of animal care workers, vets and research scientists involved in data
gathering work. In addition, the organisation has a number of political lobbying staff to
influence government policy. The business has major offices in London as well as East and West Coast
US, specifically New York and Seattle. Now the business's current technical infrastructure is a
mess. They have a small on-premises data center in Brisbane as well as a number of colo facilities
where they rent a total of five racks of space. The data center is old and the company who manages
them is encouraging customers to migrate out as soon as possible. Now Animals for Life have
previously had a vendor helping the business run an AWS pilot in the Sydney AWS region,
but it was badly implemented and it didn't provide the resilience and scalability that the business
needed. In addition, the same vendor helped them with a few isolated Microsoft Azure and Google
cloud pilots. All of them were suboptimal and didn't provide the capabilities that the business
needed. Now all of the business's global offices, as well as their mobile field workers, consume
services from the Brisbane office. Animals for Life is very cost-conscious, but equally very
progressive and willing to try new things and adopt new technologies as long as it has a business
benefit. Visually, the Animals for Life operation looks something like this. First, we've
got the headquarters based in Brisbane, Australia. Now this location handles most of the core
admin staff and shared business services, in addition to the core on-premises infrastructure.
From a technical perspective, the on-premises network uses the 192.168.10.0 address range.
It's a slash 24 or class C address space. Now don't worry if you don't know what that means, I'll be covering it later in the course.
In addition to that, a previous badly designed AWS pilot uses the 10.0.0.0.16 range.
And we also have a previous Azure pilot which utilizes 172.31.0.0.16, which again is a Class B network.
Now all of those will become relevant as we look at the potential business solutions later in the course.
For now, I just want you to keep them in mind.
The business has three non-Australian major offices. One in London covering the EU region,
and then East and West Coast US, specifically New York and Seattle. One key fact to keep
in mind is that these remote offices currently consume the IT services provided by the Brisbane
head office, which has proven to be less than ideal from a performance perspective.
Now, one fairly unique element to this type of business is that it does employ a large
group of field workers who have varied skill sets and job roles.
Some of these field workers are animal rights activists, some are data scientists or information
gathering consultants.
Some of them are working on Internet of Things projects, some on machine learning, or some
