Cloud-Native DevOps at NS
High-speed information for train passengers
The Question
The InfoPlus development teams eagerly adopted containers and Kubernetes, but when the project ran out of tracks, they needed a hand - or two - to migrate their software components to our new and improved Kubernetes environments.
Our Challenge
Migrating teams and mission-critical systems to a cloud-native and DevOps culture isn’t easy. Especially because 1.3 million train passengers consume information generated by the InfoPlus systems each day, so downtime is simply not an option.
Next Station: CI/CD with Azure DevOps and Kubernetes
The InfoPlus development teams eagerly adopted containers and Kubernetes, but when the project ran out of tracks, they needed a hand – or two – to migrate their software components to our new and improved Kubernetes environments.
InfoPlus was off to a good start: the microservices architecture was in place, and the team had set up CI/CD pipelines. However, as the teams quickly discovered, getting started is the easy part. The complexity increases rapidly when the number of systems grows. The on-premise hardware and many self-managed tools soon became a bottleneck to the success of InfoPlus. Fullstaq was asked to assist with setting up a new environment to solve these problems.
Beyond Blue’s engineers collaborated with the InfoPlus development teams to establish an architecture and set up a new environment. Instead of creating a new pipeline for every project, we created a universal pipeline based on Azure DevOps for each team to base their pipeline on. With only a few lines of code, a team can integrate all features a proper CI/CD pipeline needs.
“DevOps adoption means that you are willing to change. That you have a shared goal which people understand and that you continuously improve with every small step that you take.”
Daniel Paulus | SME DevOps at Beyond Blue & MVP at Microsoft Azure
