Problem Statement
Traya Health, aimed to expand rapidly into the UAE market. However, challenges such as operational, security risks, and scalability limitations hindered their growth. To overcome these obstacles, they sought a robust solution to streamline operations, enhance security, and ensure compliance with UAE's stringent data localization regulations.
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Challenges
Operational Challenges and Inefficiencies
Inconsistent setups across environments, limited automation, and reliance on manual infrastructure provisioning caused delays, errors, and scalability issues, making timely launches difficult.
Security and Compliance Risks
Manual processes, particularly in access management and deployments, heightened security vulnerabilities. Compliance with UAE data localization laws required separate environments, complicating provisioning and infrastructure management.
Cost and Flexibility Constraints
Over-provisioned nodes, public servers, and identical scaling for development and production environments led to inflated costs. ECS vendor lock-in further restricted infrastructure flexibility.
Limited Observability and Troubleshooting
Lack of structured infrastructure and observability tools hindered monitoring, slowed troubleshooting, and left deployments without inadequate insights.
Solutions
Streamlined Deployments
Automated deployment processes reduced errors and accelerated release cycles. Deployments became more transparent with BuildPiper’s observability tools, enabling insights into pod logs and events.
Simplified Infrastructure Management
OpsTree redesigned Traya’s infrastructure, introducing a robust architecture with improved subnet and security-group structures. Terraform was used for IaC, enabling rapid, reliable provisioning of environments.
Secured Data Handling
Created separate, UAE-compliant environments for data localization within a short timeframe, meeting compliance requirements swiftly (e.g., Thursday to Monday).
Cost Optimization through Observability
BuildPiper’s observability stack identified underutilized pods and servers, enabling ongoing cost savings. Over-provisioned ECS nodes were optimized, and development databases were moved to EKS for additional savings.
Proactive Security Measures
Automated security scans and checks minimized vulnerabilities in deployment pipelines, ensuring secure infrastructure.
Rapid Infrastructure Deployment
Leveraged tfvars and new input methods to deploy infrastructure within 120 minutes, significantly reducing provisioning times.
