Client
The client is a prominent manufacturing company with a global presence, operating both on-premise and cloud environments. They manage complex infrastructure and applications to support their manufacturing operations. As their technology landscape evolved, the client recognized the need to modernize their release processes to increase efficiency and maintain a competitive edge.
Challenges
The client faced several challenges in managing their application deployments across multiple environments:
- Lengthy and Inconsistent Release Cycles: The manual release processes were time-consuming and error-prone, causing delays in getting updates to production.
- Infrastructure Management: Managing and provisioning infrastructure across on-premise and Azure cloud environments required significant manual effort and coordination.
- Application Upgrades and Rollbacks: Performing upgrades and managing potential rollbacks was a complex task, often leading to extended downtime during critical updates.
- Lack of Automation Testing: Limited automation in testing meant issues were often discovered late in the deployment process, impacting release quality and timelines.
OUR SOLUTION
We designed and implemented a comprehensive CI/CD pipeline tailored to their hybrid infrastructure to address the client’s challenges. Key components of our solution included:
- Automated Infrastructure Provisioning: Leveraging Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) with tools like Terraform and Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates to automate the provisioning of resources across both on-premise and Azure cloud environments.
- CI/CD Pipelines: Implementing Azure DevOps pipelines to enable continuous integration and continuous deployment, ensuring that application releases are automated, consistent, and reliable.
- Upgrade and Rollback Automation: Developing processes to streamline application upgrades and rollbacks, reducing downtime and ensuring business continuity.
- Automated Testing Integration: Integrating automated testing frameworks within the CI/CD pipeline to enable continuous testing and early detection of issues.
- Monitoring and Alerting: Setting up robust monitoring and alerting mechanisms with Azure Monitor to provide real-time visibility into the deployment process and ensure rapid issue resolution.
Benefits Delivered
Our solution delivered significant benefits to the client:
- Accelerated Release Cycles: The CI/CD pipelines reduced the time required to deploy applications, shortening release cycles from days to hours.
- Enhanced Deployment Quality: Automated testing integrated into the pipeline improved the overall quality and stability of releases.
- Reduced Downtime: Automated upgrades and rollbacks minimized downtime, ensuring smoother transitions during critical updates.
- Scalability and Flexibility: The new pipelines were designed to scale with the client’s growing infrastructure and application needs, allowing them to manage deployments more effectively.
- Cost Savings: Automating manual processes reduced operational costs and allowed the client to reallocate resources to more strategic initiatives.
TECHNOLOGY
- CI/CD Tools: Azure DevOps
- Infrastructure-as-Code: Terraform, ARM Templates
- Cloud Platform: Microsoft Azure
- Automation Testing: Selenium, JUnit, TestNG
- Monitoring: Azure Monitor, Prometheus, Grafana
About Emorphis
Emorphis Technologies is a world-class software development and solutions company that truly believes in “Innovation in motion”. Delivery innovation on the go at an accelerated pace has been our success mantra to date. Over the years we have provided value to our clients in the fields of enterprise mobility, cloud, IoT, backend development, Big Data Analytics, and Blockchain.
We serve industries ranging from unicorns, and startups to large multinationals in the healthcare, telecommunications, fintech, retail, and publishing industry. Our go-to-market software products – iStatement, iPublisher, and iBuggy have proved our metal with positive beneficial customer testimonials. We help our clients with successful product development, consulting services, and testing (manual & automated).
We have profound experience & expertise on various technologies like .Net, J2EE, PHP, iOS, Android and Cloud Computing viz. Amazon Web services (AWS), Software QA & testing (Manual & Automation). Our designed products are cloud ready and can be readily deployed on AWS/Azure cloud infrastructure.
Our pivot on engineering innovation and R&D helps quicken time-to-market, ensuring high quality at economies of scale, delivering cult competency for the global marketplace. We ensure that your ideas, concepts and requirements are backed by brilliant execution at our end. Having said that we extend end-to-end ownership of product/application design, development and deployment.
