Infrastructure-as-Code Factory
Confidential Multi-brand Retail Group
Context
A multi-brand retail group where environment drift was causing production incidents and manual provisioning was taking 2-3 weeks per environment, creating bottlenecks for development teams.
Challenge
Eliminate environment drift, reduce provisioning time from weeks to minutes, and ensure consistent configurations across development, staging, and production environments.
Approach
Built a Terraform-based infrastructure factory with automated testing, drift detection, and standardised module library. Implemented GitOps workflows with approval gates.
Delivery
4-month engagement covering module development, pipeline creation, team training, and progressive rollout across all brands and environments.
Outcomes
Provisioning: 45 minutes
Down from 2-3 weeks, enabling rapid environment creation on demand
Drift eliminated
Automated detection and remediation ensuring consistency
98% deployment success
Up from 73%, through automated testing and validation
Stack
Timeline
4 months
What's Next
Module library expanded to cover additional infrastructure patterns. Factory approach being adopted by other business units.
Client identity is confidential. Detailed references and outcomes available under NDA.
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