Cutting Edge-IT: Moving from Nodes to Applications at Wells Fargo

When you’re a huge bank processing 1 billion transactions per day, you need IT processes that are fast, repeatable and well-aligned with the business strategy. That's why Wells Fargo began a DevOps journey — and revised its thinking and processes from a server-centric view to an application-centric view. With an infrastructure that includes a server footprint of 120,000 nodes, 55,000 network devices, over 2,300 applications in production, 4,000,000 configuration items, and 6,000 ways to deliver change to a server, Wells Fargo needed to plan carefully, as missteps in an application could have a lifetime of effects exceeding the lifetime of the application itself. With Puppet Enterprise as the technical foundation for this DevOps journey, Wells Fargo has gained several key advantages that make IT a more effective partner with the business:

• Enhanced portability for applications.
• Better forecasting of changes headed to production.
• The ability to create an API-driven serv