VODAFONE GHANA
“ AS A MODERN TELCO , YOU NEED TO BE FAST .”
MOSES OKUNDI CIO , VODAFONE GHANA
toolset enabling Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment ( CI / CD ), and driving the need for people development in the digital skills “ that can facilitate the kind of sustained quick turnaround we need .”
A key step here is to rapidly increase microservices , which means , “ that for any service we need to deliver , our developers don ' t have to spend a long time writing new code , but rather consume from existing microservices , which really speeds up the process .”
Okundi is also driving the initiative to transform applications to be cloud-ready . Key applications are already cloud-ready . “ We have made good progress to virtualise the IT environment . We are about halfway done now ,” he explains . “ All our upcoming
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transformation initiatives will also require as a minimum that concerned applications are cloud-ready , and support Open APIs and microservices .”
Bringing it All Together In order to unify all the elements of Vodafone Ghana ’ s IT stack , Okundi reveals that , “ we ' re putting it all together using an integration layer that cuts across our whole stack to ensure that every element talks to one another in a near-seamless manner .” The process is going well , with the integration layer now capable of facilitating payments , resource consumption and subscriptions , to name a few of its capabilities .
Due to the expense involved in buying an off-the-shelf integration layer solution , Okundi ’ s team built their own , something he ’ s immensely proud of them for doing .
“ The team has really done a great job to create and enhance that layer , and to really
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