Client:
A globally recognized, Singapore based publicly traded multinational corporation with operations in several continents countries.
Challenges:
The client faced significant hurdles with their manual infrastructure management processes:
- Inconsistency: Manual configurations led to environment mismatches across development, staging, and production.
- Scalability: Rapid growth in data and application usage required frequent resource scaling, which was time-intensive and error-prone.
- Compliance Requirements: Ensuring adherence to regulatory standards was labour-intensive and prone to human errors.
- High Costs: Inefficient resource provisioning resulted in underutilized infrastructure, driving up operational expenses.
- Delays: Manual processes delayed the deployment of critical applications, affecting time-to-market for research and clinical solutions.
Our Solution:
We implemented advanced Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform to automate and streamline the client’s infrastructure provisioning and management.
- Built modular Terraform configurations for provisioning essential AWS resources such as VPCs, EC2 instances, RDS databases, and S3 buckets etc.
- Leveraged advanced Terraform features like remote state management, data sources, and workspaces for environment isolation and consistency.
- Integrated compliance automation through custom tagging policies and AWS Config, ensuring traceability and adherence to regulatory requirements.
- Used Terraform dynamic blocks to minimize redundancy and improve the scalability of infrastructure templates.
- Integrated AppDynamics for real-time monitoring of infrastructure and application performance.
Established a Git-based workflow for managing Terraform changes, including code reviews and automated validation with CI/CD pipelines.
Business Outcome:
The implementation of IaC delivered transformative results:
- 85% Faster Provisioning: Reduced infrastructure setup time significantly, enabling faster application deployment.
- 100% Compliance: Automated compliance checks ensure regulatory adherence, reducing manual oversight efforts.
- 30% Cost Reduction: Optimized resource utilization and automated processes led to significant cost savings.
- Enhanced Scalability: The infrastructure now supports dynamic scaling for global clinical trials and research initiatives.
- Improved Developer Productivity: Developers focused more on application development with reduced environment setup time.