Case study
Migration to Azure Cloud
Migrate and enhance an entire Azure-based production platform that allows smooth software development cycle as well as deploying production softwarehouse applications.
Brief description of the company
QualityMinds GMBH:
QualityMinds is a dynamic consulting and software house specializing in delivering high-quality software solutions with a strong focus on agile development and testing. The company provides expert consulting and hands-on support throughout IT projects, ensuring innovative and effective results. Success is driven by the ability to craft visionary solutions that meet the unique needs of each project, helping businesses achieve excellence in both software development and quality assurance.
The challenge
The scope of the project involved migrating the entire infrastructure from bare-metal based servers from local cloud vendor to an azure-based flexible, stable and scalable platform.
Furthermore, the entire CI/CD processes needed to be redefined and migrated to a modern cloud-based environment. The whole processes needed to go smoothly without a noticeable downtime as production applications were rearchitected and migrated too. Best devops practices as Infrastructure as a Code and GitOps were required to provide fully automated setup and a disaster recovery solution. Implementation of monitoring, alerting and observability was crucial to achieve stable migration results and full control over maintaining services.
The challenge
The scope of the project involved migrating the entire infrastructure from bare-metal based servers from local cloud vendor to an azure-based flexible, stable and scalable platform.
Furthermore, the entire CI/CD processes needed to be redefined and migrated to a modern cloud-based environment. The whole processes needed to go smoothly without a noticeable downtime as production applications were rearchitected and migrated too. Best devops practices as Infrastructure as a Code and GitOps were required to provide fully automated setup and a disaster recovery solution. Implementation of monitoring, alerting and observability was crucial to achieve stable migration results and full control over maintaining services.
The solution
Developing a robust platform using modern DevOps practices to streamline client software product delivery, ensuring scalability, reliability, and rapid time-to-market.
Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Created fresh cloud infrastructure based on the outdated bare-metal setup with a modular, code-based approach, ensuring consistency, repeatability, security and scalability. Introduced a large number of improvements with regards to security and scalability.
GitOps: Provided argo cd with manifests to have full control over deployed applications
Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD): Provide CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure as well as for software house applications ensuring stable, repeatable deployments to production.
Data migration: Moved data during maintenance windows ensuring that the process went smooth and un-noticable for end-users
Monitoring and alerting: Setup monitoring and alerting solution to keep applications and infrastracture stable and accessible.
The solution
Developing a robust platform using modern DevOps practices to streamline client software product delivery, ensuring scalability, reliability, and rapid time-to-market.
Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Created fresh cloud infrastructure based on the outdated bare-metal setup with a modular, code-based approach, ensuring consistency, repeatability, security and scalability. Introduced a large number of improvements with regards to security and scalability.
GitOps: Provided argo cd with manifests to have full control over deployed applications
Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD): Provide CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure as well as for software house applications ensuring stable, repeatable deployments to production.
Data migration: Moved data during maintenance windows ensuring that the process went smooth and un-noticable for end-users
Monitoring and alerting: Setup monitoring and alerting solution to keep applications and infrastracture stable and accessible.
Facts at
a Glance
Infrastructure provisioned via new terraform and terragrunt code contained Azure resources
Improved SLA (from around 95% to 99% on infrastructure)
Improved maintainability and scalability of infrastructure and applications
Azure cloud used as a vendor providing different types of services (aks, webapps, app services, api gateways)
CI/CD pipelines extended and moved the cloud providing scalable agents resources
Azure, Terraform, Terragrunt, Kubernetes, Docker, Grafana.
Facts at
a Glance
Infrastructure provisioned via new terraform and terragrunt code contained Azure resources
Improved SLA (from around 95% to 99% on infrastructure)
Improved maintainability and scalability of infrastructure and applications
Azure cloud used as a vendor providing different types of services (aks, webapps, app services, api gateways)
CI/CD pipelines extended and moved the cloud providing scalable agents resources
Azure, Terraform, Terragrunt, Kubernetes, Docker, Grafana.
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