Standard Bank: Our DevOps JourneyCopyright © 2015 Chef Software, Inc. http:/ /www.chef.io 3/2015 1 Standard Bank is the largest bank in Africa. As an established institution with a long history, it has a technology legacy that is the product of more than 40 years of devel- opment. It’s a large mainframe shop, and its overall platform environment is quite heterogeneous. Some of the platforms include Red Hat, SUSE, Solaris, and AIX. In the front end of the technology stack there is, for example, Java and AngularJS, while you can find Cobol in the back end. Although its traditional release and management processes work, they are slow. It became clear to Standard Bank that, to remain relevant, there needed to be changes. The goal was to transform its delivery process to provide new

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