CI/CD Automation & DevOps Implementation

For a UK-based Digital OOH company looking to developing smarter solutions and accelerate speed to market.

Our client wanted to containerize, optimize, automate infrastructure and application deployments to provide automation and offer programmatic trading for media sellers and buyers. They were committed to adopting DevOps practices with an agile methodology by utilizing industry standards & automation to meet their SDLC optimization goals for delivering software faster & reliable manner.

Capability

DevOps

Industry

Advertising

Country

Challenges

Integration of different/distributed teams’ deliveries from coding to deployment

Lack of tools and technologies required for solution development

How different versions of the same product can be developed, build and tested independently

Selection of project management methodology

Build environment agnostic artifacts

Solutions

By combining the development (Dev) and operations (Ops) specialists’ efforts, our team’s primary goal was to automate continuous deployment with features, fixes and updates that were aligned with the customer’s business objectives.

To ensure faultless performance, our team enabled the setting up and management of tools for load balancing, infrastructure monitoring & log management. With ~20 members in DevOps/SRE team, they put to practice the Agile project management approach while following a Kanban approach with the Development team following Scrum.

Collaborative code management

Different environments (DEV, INT, UAT, PROD and more) were created using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) which enabled the development, QA team and Client to use their respective environments and different versions of the same product. IaC also offered easy maintenance and audit of infrastructure.

Real-time monitoring and alerts

Complete visibility of pre-built reports & dashboards and exceptions-based alerts/notifications, the development team can always ensure release quality and process compliance. The notification and alert services ensured that every stakeholder was aware of the progress of product development and related issues.