DevOps Automation for US-Based Consumer Credit Reporting Agency

Client

The client is an American credit bureau that collects information about an individual's credit history to create a credit report. The five main components of the credit report are personal information, credit accounts, inquiry information, bankruptcies, and collections accounts. 

The Challenge

• Managing multiple environments was difficult due to the complex system setup
• Implementing security and compliance considerations in all phases, including application deployment
• Migrating from legacy to microservices on the cloud required necessary configuration management, Continuous Integration (CI)/Continuous Deployment (CD), and automation

LTM Solution

LTM helped a client with the app modernization and migration from Teletrack to a specialty finance platform, PCF to Google Cloud. We supported the implementation of the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) process and Google Cloud DevOps services for faster and better product delivery and infra automation.

• Automated creation of environments via Terraform scripts
• Set up Jenkins pipelines with GitHub webhooks to deploy code on the GKE cluster
• Enabled a container registry to store the docker images for fast, scalable retrieval, and deployment
• Implemented Google Cloud monitoring and logging services to create metrics and alerts for services. Enforced security with Cloud IAM and service accounts for managing access to service user accounts

Business Benefits

• Improved time to market by 40%
• Reduced time for new application infra setup by 75%
• Optimized the overall cost by 20% through Google Cloud adoption 

Tech Stack

• Google Cloud Platform