Case Study

AWS Infrastructure Management and Streamlining DevOps Best Practices

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Industry 

EdTech

Expertise 

Amazon VPC, Amazon ECR, AWS Transit Gateway, AWS Virtual Private Network, AWS Control Tower, Amazon EKS

Offerings/solutions 

AWS Control Tower Multi-Account Security Trunk-Based Development OpenTelemetry Datadog GitOps

About the Client

Allen Digital is the pioneering e-learning platform of ALLEN Career Institute. With a legacy spanning over three decades, ALLEN Career Institute is the epitome of excellence in coaching and academic preparation in India. Established in 1988, ALLEN began its journey with a humble coaching center and has since evolved into the foremost choice for students aspiring to excel in prestigious entrance examinations such as JEE (Advanced), JEE (Main), NEET (UG), NTSE, KVPY, and Olympiads groups.

Highlights

0.1%

Downtime

80%

Reduced Manual Intervention

90%

Increased User Satisfaction

The Challenge

Allen Digital initially lacked the foundational knowledge and roadmap for their DevOps journey, grappling with infrastructure setup, CI/CD pipeline implementation, and environment creation. Seeking to integrate DevOps best practices seamlessly, they turned to CloudThat for expert guidance in establishing a robust and efficient framework.

Solutions

  • Implement AWS Control Tower to establish a well-architected multi-account environment, ensuring governance and security best practices from the outset.
  • Adopt a trunk-based development and branching strategy to streamline code management and facilitate developer collaboration.
  • Integrate Open Telemetry with applications for comprehensive monitoring and logging, pushing metrics, traces, and logs to Datadog for analysis and visualization.
  • Follow GitOps strategy for application build, deploy, and promotion to automate the release process, ensuring consistency and reliability.
  • Automate Atlantis setup using Ansible and Jenkins pipeline for seamless workflow integration and efficiency.
  • Utilize Infracost for cost estimation, Checkov for security checks, and tflint for Terraform validation to optimize infrastructure costs and enforce best practices.
  • Implement Karpenter for automatic scaling of Amazon EKS worker nodes, ensuring optimal resource utilization.
  • Create Multi-branch Jenkins pipelines to build applications for repository branches and pull requests, improving development agility and code quality.
  • Implement Blue-Green deployment strategy using Argo Rollouts for Kubernetes based applications, ensuring zero-downtime deployments and rollback capabilities

The Results

During the initial implementation phase, system downtime was kept below 0.1%, maintaining a stable platform. Workflow efficiency improved with an 80% reduction in manual intervention. Full compliance with industry standards was achieved through 100% implementation of security measures. Stakeholders and users praised the new DevOps setup, with over 90% expressing satisfaction.

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