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Development: Build an internal platform that allows developers to run container-based microservices
The Challenge
Typically, a new software project requires a developer to create a source code repository, a wiki space, a project board, continuous integration & delivery pipeline, an infrastructure stack along with operational monitoring, logging and alerting. Traditionally, all of these tasks are handled via service tickets by various teams within Technology. This means that it would take developers inordinate amount of time and effort to bootstrap and get a new application environment up and running. Furthermore, as most of these things are done by a human in some manual fashion, it has the potential to introduce considerable complexity which disrupts the overall development flow.
The True Up IT Solution
True Up IT partnered with the customer to buildout a fully automated, self-service platform for developers to build, deploy and manage their applications. We engaged with various technology teams such as Software Architecture, Cloud, Engineering, Security, Development and Operations to implement and operationalize containers. The platform was built with full CI/CD automation allowing developers to go from zero (code commit) to sixty (deploy) in minutes. The platform allowed developers to launch new software projects in a standardized way in minutes instead of weeks. We designed and implemented the necessary security, operations and process integrations around managing, deploying and operating container-based workloads.
Outcome:
- With the use of Docker and a container orchestration technology, developers were able to build, deploy and manage almost any type of workload in a fully automated self-service way
- Achieved continuous integration and delivery with centralized logging, monitoring and alerting
- Enabled rapid experimentation for developers
- Achieved operational and security excellence at scale

