Facilitating change by building secure environments
Challenge
The client faced a few challenges:
- A lack of expertise in DevOps during business expansion
- A surge in demand, leading to an urgent need for a scalable solution
- The reduction of manual labour
- The enablement of seamless deployment in new environments
Working with Deployflow has been transformative for Little Journey. Deployflow's team addressed our critical needs for scalability, efficiency, and security by simplifying our cloud infrastructure management.
Their strategic approach has greatly enhanced our platform’s security, consistency, and overall efficiency, allowing us to better serve our users with a robust and user-friendly solution.
Managing IT infrastructure and meeting vendor security requirements in a rapidly growing tech startup is not an easy job.
I enjoy working with the Deployflow team and appreciate their adaptiveness and responsiveness - they offer strategic advice and do a good job at balancing the need to put security first whilst also developing and maintaining our services in a way that meets our users’ needs.
Solution
We gathered essential data and defined business requirements during a collaborative workshop, leading us to a detailed implementation plan executed by our DevOps engineers. Through our unique approach, we ensured complete data segregation, reduced procedural complexity, and allowed efficient establishment of new environments.
Powered by Terraform, the solution enables the client to quickly create personalised environments with distinct security controls. By securing Cloud endpoints and creating robust security policies, our DevSecOps team mitigated risks, enhanced system controls, consolidated tools, and ensured compliance with medical regulations, setting the stage for success in medical technology.
Key Actions:
- Developed a comprehensive implementation plan
- Translated documentation into actionable solutions
- Set up discrete infrastructures using Terraform with tailored security controls
- Enabled centralised security control and complete data segregation
- Assessed cloud threats and improved system controls
Impact
- Automation Advancement: It facilitated automation throughout the client's organisational framework.
- Rapid Deployment: It dramatically slashed the deployment timeline for new environments from several days to two hours.
- Enhanced Consistency: The solution replaced an ad hoc approach, which lacked proper controls, with Terraform's centrally managed set of rules and policies.
- Compliance Conformity: The solution met the requirements for swiftly setting up new environments, a critical aspect of regulatory compliance.
- Ensured equilibrium: We helped the client set the stage for success in medical technology.
