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Release and patch time down 65% on an enterprise logistics platform

Automating releases and patching on a VMware private cloud with Jenkins, GitLab and AWX.

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The figures on this page are the engineer's own, from an engagement on an enterprise logistics platform. They are anonymised: the company is not named.

Problem

The platform ran on a VMware private cloud, where release and patch work took too long and downtime was too high.

What I did

Automated releases and patching with Jenkins, GitLab and AWX.

Result

  • Release and patch time down 65%.
  • Downtime down 50%.

Stack

VMware, Jenkins, GitLab, AWX, Ansible.