A Loan Software Company was undergoing a migration from an on-premise data center to Google Cloud Platform to improve scalability, resiliency, and cost savings. To migrate their applications to GCP with the least amount of impact, containerizing the applications made the most sense. This strategy, however, demands automation to create and deploy the containers, so they asked Sketch to help build a Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline.
The client also wanted Sketch to pair with their own employees during the creation of this pipeline. In doing so, they could facilitate knowledge dharing throughout the entire process. Through this collaborative effort, Sketch and the client chose the simplest of applications to use as the guinea pig, proving the success of each stage of the pipeline as it went from build to test to package to deploy.
After watching the app go through
various phases, our client knew the pipeline was complete (an iteration earlier than our originally scoped end date). Sketch then conducted a three-day immersive DevOps training course taught by two of Sketch’s team members. The course highlighted what was included in the new CI/CD pipeline. Please see our DevOps Bootcamp Case Study to learn more.
“Sketch was a pleasure to work with and tackled every challenge we sent their way. I really hope we can take the skills we learned and get the other teams to practice them as well. Lots of good knowledge transfer, and success along the way. Can’t get much better than that.”
–Director of Development
Programming skills: Java, Gradle, Github Enterprise, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Docker/ Kaniko, Helm, Spinnaker, Istio Google Cloud Storage and Google Container Registry
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