StrategicIT ePMOLite DevOps

Overview

ePMOLite is a project management solution developed by Numino Labs, designed to streamline and enhance the efficiency of project management. It offers a comprehensive suite of tools to facilitate project planning, scheduling, resource allocation, and real-time collaboration. The product’s core objective is to address the common challenges faced by project managers, such as fragmented workflows, inefficient tracking, and lack of integration with other essential tools.

As ePMOLite evolved and its user base expanded, the need for a robust DevOps strategy became evident. Maintaining consistent performance and ensuring seamless updates in a growing and complex environment necessitated the adoption of DevOps practices. These practices aimed to increase deployment frequency, reduce failure rates of new releases, and shorten the lead time between fixes, ultimately driving more efficient and reliable software delivery.

Project Info

CD (DevOps)

Client

StrategicIT

Problem Statement

The primary goal of setting up DevOps for ePMOLite was to enhance the software development lifecycle through automation, achieving the following objectives

Increase Deployment Frequency

Enable more frequent releases to meet the growing demand for new features and updates.

Improve Reliability

Ensure that each deployment is stable and minimize downtime through automated testing and monitoring.

Enhance Collaboration

Foster better communication and collaboration between development and operations teams.

Optimize Resource Management

Efficiently manage resources to handle scaling and peak loads without compromising performance.

Product Features

The DevOps setup for ePMOLite incorporates several advanced features to ensure efficient development, deployment, and management of the application.

Continuous Integration (CI)

Automated Builds: Automatically compile and build the codebase whenever changes are committed, ensuring that the latest version is always ready for testing.

Unit Testing: Execute automated tests on each build to catch issues early in the development process, reducing the likelihood of bugs reaching production.

Continuous Delivery (CD)

Automated Deployment: Deploying to staging and production environments automatically, reducing the risk of human error and accelerating the release process.

Rollback Mechanisms: Implement automated rollback procedures to revert to previous stable versions in case of failures, ensuring minimal disruption to users.

Comprehensive Engineering Environments

Multiple Environments: ePMOLite operates in various engineering environments, including Development, Staging, multiple Demo instances, Production, Professional User Environment, and Enterprise User Environment. This setup ensures thorough testing and smooth transitions from development to production.

Robust DevOps Tools Integration

Slack: Facilitates seamless team communication and collaboration, ensuring prompt issue resolution and coordination across teams.

GitLab: Manages source code repositories, version control, and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, enabling efficient code management and automated deployments.

Solution

Multi-Environment Setup

To ensure smooth and reliable transitions from development to production, ePMOLite operates across multiple engineering environments.

Each environment serves a specific purpose.

Branching and Deployment Strategy

The solution employs a dual-repository system

Infrastructure Code Automation

ePMOLite

Automated Provisioning

The DevOps setup for ePMOLite was designed to automate the creation and deployment of new environments, ensuring a seamless and efficient process for onboarding new users and scaling the application.

The steps for automated provisioning include

Technology Stack

DevOps

Platform Services

Messaging

Conclusion

By automating the entire process, from user sign-up to environment deployment, the solution has achieved faster onboarding, enhanced scalability, and improved operational efficiency.

Use of Infrastructure as code, has resulted in a more reliable and consistent deployment pipeline

The solution has empowered the development and operations teams to collaborate more effectively, enabling the rapid delivery of new features and updates.

As a result, ePMOLite is better positioned to meet the evolving needs of its users, providing a robust and scalable project management solution that can adapt to the challenges of a dynamic business environment.

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