We at Oakcrest Technologies specialize in helping companies scale software delivery faster while ensuring reliability. Recently, we helped a well-known financial services company build a DevOps automation-driven Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline. This change resulted in a 70% reduction in deployment times and enhanced system stability through the use of automated workflows and tools such as GitHub Actions.
Client Challenges
The client, a market leader in financial services, ran into critical issues during their software delivery process,which negatively impacted both productivity and time to market:
- Manual Deployments:
The manual deployment process was inefficient and prone to errors, leading to delays in updating the software and adding new features.
- Inconsistent Environments:
Dishonorable differences between development, staging, and production environments caused a lot of deployment errors.
- Lack of Automation:
DevOps automation tools weren’t widely used, resulting in prolonged release cycles and increased operational costs.
- Compliance and Security Gaps:
Lack of adequate monitoring and testing in an extremely vulnerable environment lead to late regulatory reporting.
The client needed a scalable, secure, automated DevOps framework to resolve these challenges and deliver business value quickly.
Our Approach
Oakcrest Technologies adopted a DevOps and automation transformation process by creating and automating a CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions and other modern tools. The solution also automated code compilation, testing, deployment, and alerting for multiple environments.
Solution Highlights
- CI/CD Pipeline Implementation with GitHub Actions
- Included GitHub Actions for code builds, testing, and deployments on multiple environments.
- Preset reused workflows for pull requests, builds and deployments to keep things consistent.
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform
- Added Terraform for infrastructure provisioning and monitoring across AWS, version control and stability.
- Reduced manual infrastructure deployment time by 60%.
- Automated Testing
- Integrated automated unit tests, integration tests, and security checks into the CI/CD pipeline with SonarQube code quality tools and Trivy vulnerability scanning tools.
- Improved quality assurance with DevOps test automation processes.
- Containerization with Docker and Kubernetes
- Containerized application with Docker to ensure environment scalability.
- Deployed workloads to Kubernetes clusters to scale and maximize resource utilization.
- Monitoring and Observability
- Pre-installed monitoring tools like Prometheus and Grafana to track application and infrastructure performance in real time.
- Used AWS CloudWatch for alerts and log consolidation, providing early detection and incident management.
- Security and Compliance
- Utilized GitHub Advanced Security for the vulnerability detection and code analysis during CI/CD workflow.
- Improved compliance with financial industry best practices via automated audits and reporting.
Key Business Impacts
- 70% Reduced Deployment Cycle: Automation of CI/CD pipelines dramatically cut the deployment time and speed up time to market for new features and upgrades.
- Enhanced Operational Efficiency:Infrastructure as Code (IaC) reduced manual efforts by 60%, improving consistency across development, staging, and production environments.
- Improved Application Reliability: Automation in DevOps and proactive monitoring improved failure rates by 40%.
- Strengthened Security and Compliance: Advanced security scans and compliance checks ensure code quality and compliance, enhancing the client’s reputation in the financial sector.
- Cross-Team Collaboration: Automating DevOps made the development, operations, and security teams work together more productively.
Client Testimonial
“Oakcrest Technologies changed our software delivery process. Using GitHub Actions and a robust CI/CD pipeline they were able to reduce our deployment time by 70% and maintain environment consistency. Their expertise in DevOps automation has made us deliver software faster, safer and more reliably.
Director of IT Operations, Top Financial Services Company.
Conclusion
At Oakcrest Technologies, we believe DevOps automation is the foundation of the new software delivery. Using tools like GitHub Actions, Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes, we offer scalable, automated, and secure solutions that help companies accelerate innovation while still maintaining a high level of operational excellence.
Are you ready to accelerate your DevOps journey? Let’s streamline and improve your software delivery workflows. Contact Us Today.