How a product engineering company standardized 100+ microservices deployments with GitOps automation
The company is a specialized product engineering firm building high-scale digital platforms for enterprise customers across South Africa and India, with solutions spanning telecommunications, financial reconciliation, and rewards management. As its application portfolio and microservices ecosystem expanded, manual infrastructure management and deployment processes began creating delivery bottlenecks and availability risks. Flentas modernized the company's platform operations, standardizing Kubernetes environments and automating software delivery through GitOps and Infrastructure-as-Code.
- A product engineering company
- Enterprise platforms across South Africa & India
- Telecom, financial reconciliation & rewards management
- 100+ microservices
- Microservices standardized under automated deployment
- 100+
- Secrets management redesigned with automated failover
- High availability
- Single source of truth for deployments
- GitOps
Manual processes couldn't keep pace with a growing microservices footprint
As applications, environments, and microservices multiplied, the company's existing infrastructure processes began affecting delivery speed, reliability, and scalability.
Inconsistent infrastructure
Kubernetes environments were provisioned and managed manually, creating configuration drift across development, QA, and production.
Manual, risky deployments
Production releases across 100+ microservices required significant manual effort, extending deployment windows and increasing the risk of human error.
Container management constraints
Deployments relied on external container image repositories, creating delays and dependencies in the release process.
Secrets management risk
The secrets management platform operated as a single-node deployment, creating a potential single point of failure for critical applications.
A standardized platform built on GitOps and Infrastructure-as-Code
Flentas implemented a comprehensive DevOps and platform modernization strategy spanning infrastructure provisioning, software delivery, container management, and platform resilience.
Standardized platform provisioning
Automated CI/CD and GitOps workflows
Centralized container and secrets management
Standardized deployment governance
Faster delivery. Greater reliability. Less operational overhead.
Faster software delivery
With automated deployment pipelines reducing manual release effort across environments.
Improved deployment reliability
Through standardized processes that reduced manual errors and configuration inconsistencies.
Higher platform availability
With highly available architecture for critical platform services reducing operational risk.
Lower operational overhead
As automation eliminated repetitive infrastructure and deployment tasks.
Greater scalability
With standardized infrastructure and automated provisioning creating a repeatable model for future growth.
Stronger governance and visibility
With GitOps workflows providing better traceability, auditability, and control over deployments.
Built on a Kubernetes-native DevOps stack
- Kubernetes
- Ansible
- Kubespray
- Jenkins
- ArgoCD
- Harbor
- HashiCorp Vault
- AWS KMS
- GitOps
- Infrastructure-as-Code
What product engineering teams usually ask about this kind of DevOps modernization
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