About Client
- One of the leading service providers to the 100+ financial organizations of the world
- Provides the functionality that allows a consumer to integrate into their existing technology and also with third-party service providers
- Helps maintain the position of the portfolio, critical data, and loan records
- They are growing 30% each year with average annual revenue of over $60 million
Challenge
Below are the main challenges that the client was facing before engagement with QASource:
- Difficulty managing complex infrastructure
- Minimal collaboration within QA and Dev teams
- Manual environment provisioning
- Inconsistent release process, daily build patches and frequent release cycle
- Time spent on deployment issues
- Simplify the application deployment and share configurations across the teams uniformly
- Reduce the manual effort of provisioning customized Linux OS images
Solutions
- Automated infrastructure using Docker, AWS, Terraform, Groovy Pipelines
- Implemented CI/CD and CT using Jenkins, ChatOps(Slack) and email notification
- Implemented containers (Docker) to build consistent and compatible environments
- Automated complete end-to-end release process using CI/CD pipeline and test orchestration ( using Selenium, Appium, Rest Assured)
- Integrated Nagios to monitor the health of the application and CI/CD pipeline both on staging and production environment
- Prepared the Helm Charts for application deployments, rollback capabilities and maintain Helm Package versioning over GitHub repository
- Implemented CI/CD using GitHub Actions Pipeline to build customize Linux OS images using Hashicorp Packer and store them over Google Cloud Storage
Results
- Reduced time over 90% for customized OS image generation.
- Reduced 1/3 of the environment compatibility issues by using virtualization and containerization
- Achieved 200x more frequent build deploys by use of automated pipeline
- Achieved 24x faster recovery times by the use of containers and cloud technologies
- Enhanced collaboration between teams
- Increased confidence on deployments
- Reduce the chances of error and dependency issues which may encounter while setting up the updated application
- Reduced the time from 5 hours to 30 minutes for generating customized OS image
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