Case Study 10: CI/CD Pipelines and Orchestration

Scalable CI/CD with DR Readiness

• Established hosting platform with Docker Swarm, Ansible Tower, and Jenkins

• Implemented secure secret storage with HashiCorp Vault and Docker Swarm secrets

• Set up site-to-site VPN for secure customer connectivity

• Enabled dynamic service discovery, metrics collection

• Established cold DR site for failover

• Operated the environment until its migration to Kubernetes hosting

Challenges

• Aligning solution with customer competences to facilitate seamless handover

• Designing secure, automated processes to achieve near lights-out operations

Implementation Specifics

• Technologies: BitBucket, Jenkins, Ansible Tower, Docker Swarm, HashiCorp Vault

• Infrastructure: Hetzner, OpenVPN, strongSwan