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How a major Indian financial institution streamlined its OpenShift operations
The financial services provider sought a scalable and secure solution to support its microservices architecture while maintaining compliance with strict regulatory requirements. OpenShift was deployed on IBM LinuxONE but the existing processes involved manual updates and maintenance. To ensure regulatory compliance, the organisation engaged Cateina to automate its ops through Ansible.
Tech used
API Management
Data Streams
Microservices
Web 3.0
India
Challenge
The organization needed to ensure that its OpenShift deployments adhered to stringent financial regulations, including high availability and disaster recovery. Security and data integrity were critical considerations.
Deploying OpenShift on LinuxONE introduced unique challenges, including the need to fine-tune clusters to take full advantage of the infrastructure’s capabilities while balancing workloads across multiple environments.
Applying kernel updates, security patches, and system configurations manually was time-intensive and prone to delays, particularly as workloads and cluster complexity increased.
As the organization expanded its services, managing resources across development, staging, and production environments became increasingly challenging without automation.
Solution
OpenShift clusters were configured to meet high availability requirements and to securely handle traffic across environments. LinuxONE’s encryption features were fully utilized to safeguard data at rest and in transit.
A structured approach was introduced for applying updates and patches. Updates were tested in UAT environments before rolling out to production, minimizing the risk of downtime and ensuring consistency.
System health and resource utilization were closely monitored using custom scripts and tools. Alerts were configured to enable quick responses to potential issues, reducing disruptions.
To address the growing complexity of maintenance tasks, a plan was created to introduce Ansible. Once implemented, Ansible will automate routine tasks like patching, updates, and configurations, significantly reducing manual effort and ensuring consistency across the infrastructure
Result
The current manual processes ensured compliance with regulatory requirements. The planned automation will further strengthen security practices.
A disciplined maintenance schedule and thorough testing ensured 99.9% uptime for critical workloads.
Segregation of namespaces and proactive monitoring improved resource efficiency by 20%, with room for further enhancements as automation is rolled out.
The structured roadmap for implementing Ansible positions the organization to handle increasing workloads seamlessly.
