Summit EMEA: How Vodafone Is Enabling Immutable Telemetry

In a virtual PagerDuty Summit EMEA, Vodafone's technology leaders outlined their strategy to achieve immutable telemetry, focusing on empowering development teams to be self-sufficient and ensuring their code reaches production swiftly. Central to this approach is building self-service capabilities and continuous CI/CD infrastructure, which requires immutable infrastructure for reliable observability and alerting. The concept of immutability, explained through a Formula 1 analogy, emphasizes replacing broken components quickly rather than repairing them. Vodafone's Site Reliability Engineering teams are tasked with developing on-demand monitoring solutions, allowing teams to choose specific tools without disrupting others. This setup involves integrating configurations for monitoring tools like Datadog and PagerDuty into a CI pipeline, enabling developers to easily implement necessary monitors. The initiative aligns with SRE principles by reducing toil and enhancing visibility across digital operations, and it aims to streamline processes so developers can focus on innovative tasks while maintaining ownership of their code.