What the Client Was Facing
A financial services firm had a 400-server fleet managed through manual SSH, ad-hoc scripts and outdated Puppet manifests. Configuration drift was a compliance risk, patching took months and new server provisioning required a 2-week wait.
What ZippyOPS Was Engaged To Do
ZippyOPS was brought in to design and implement a solution addressing the root causes of the client's challenges — delivering measurable outcomes within a fixed engagement timeline. Our team worked embedded with the client's engineers throughout the entire project.
How We Solved It
ZippyOPS audited the entire fleet and rebuilt the IaC foundation in Terraform for cloud resources and Ansible for configuration management. All servers were brought into CIS Benchmark Level 2 compliance via ArmorPlane. A self-service provisioning pipeline was built using GitLab CI with automated testing and approval workflows.
Technologies Used
Measurable Outcomes Delivered
100% of infrastructure defined in version-controlled Terraform and Ansible
Server provisioning time reduced from 2 weeks to 18 minutes
CIS Benchmark compliance achieved across all 400 servers
Patch cycle reduced from 3 months to 72 hours via automated Ansible playbooks
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