IT Svit

Our client, the medical services application owner, turned to the IT Svit team with the request to transfer their medical app to the cloud and automate & simplify the file conversion for the further data analysis process. 

Case info

Location: France

Partnership period: 2018-ongoing

Team size: 2 – 4 people

Team location: Kharkiv, Ukraine

Services: cloud architecture, cloud infrastructure management, CI/CD

Expertise delivered: GCP cloud administration, DevOps services, cloud infrastructure management

Technologies: GCP, Kubernetes, Nginx, Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform.

Project requirements

The IT Svit team distinguished the following tasks:

• to design the new infrastructure on AWS or other providers;

• to ensure the system operational stability and resilience;

• to enable CI/CD pipelines for the file conversion processes;

• to enable simple system configuration and monitoring.

Challenges and Our solutions 

Challenges: 

• app deployment must be quicker and error-proof through CI/CD;

• app must be able to receive and store .raw files from external sources;

• .raw files must be converted into .zip files through a complex process;

• storage must be with folders for the ready files.

Our solutions: 

• to use a Google Cloud provider;

• to use Jenkins pipelines for the conversion of the files;

• to apply Ansible to install Jenkins, Docker, Java, Nginx, pip;

• to apply Terraform manifests to manage the future infrastructure in the cloud and to create the bucket in Google Cloud Storage for files;

• to use Nginx as a proxy server.

Results

Our work resulted in: 

• building a CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins, allowing us to automate and drastically shorten the process of app deployment and configuration;

• enabling several operators to work simultaneously during app deployment, instead of waiting for a single operator to build the Docker image;

• automation of files conversion process to speed up the app performance.

Final thoughts 

The customer’s existing infrastructure was unreliable with heavy workloads. IT Svit improvements automated and shortened the process of app deployment and configuration, as well as automated files conversion process that significantly sped up the app performance.