LOS ANGELES — When you’re deploying a business-critical application to the cloud, it’s nice to not need the “war room” you’ve assembled to troubleshoot Day 1 problems. https://thenewstack.simplecast.com/episodes/case-study-how-bok-financial-managed-its-cloud-migration When BOK Financial, a financial services company that’s been moving apps to the cloud over the last three years, was launching its largest application on the cloud, its engineers supported it with a “war room type situation, monitoring everything” according to BOK’s https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewrau/.
In late 2019, Rau said, BOK Financial deployed one small application to the cloud, an initial step on its digital transformation journey. It’s been building out its cloud infrastructure ever since, and soon ran into the limits of each cloud provider’s native tooling.
In 2020, BOK Financial began using HashCorp’s open source Terraform to automate the creation of cloud infrastructure.