Weeks 1–2
Assess & design
Inventoried existing infrastructure, designed a module structure, and agreed branching, review, and approval rules.
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CASE STUDY · CLOUD & DEVOPS
Infrastructure automation with Terraform delivery pipelines
Moving infrastructure into version-controlled Terraform with automated plan, review, and apply pipelines made changes faster, auditable, and repeatable.
Industry
Insurance
Scale
3 environments · 400+ managed resources · 5 delivery teams
Duration
8 weeks
Service
Cloud & DevOps
95%
faster environment provisioning
100%
of infrastructure changes peer-reviewed
90%
fewer configuration drift incidents
0
manual console changes in production
THE CHALLENGE
Where things stood.
Infrastructure was created through ticket requests and manual console changes. Environments drifted apart, audits were time-consuming, and new environments took weeks.
There was no reliable record of who changed what, which made incidents harder to investigate and compliance reviews slower.
OUR APPROACH
How the engagement ran.
Delivered in phases with a weekly status review and a steering check-in at each milestone.
Weeks 3–5
Codify
Imported existing resources into Terraform and built reusable modules for networking, compute, data, and access.
Weeks 6–7
Automate
Built pipelines that run plan on every pull request, apply after approval, and detect drift on a schedule.
Week 8
Hand over
Documented modules and workflows and trained delivery teams to make infrastructure changes through code.
Technology stack.
Terraform
AWS
Microsoft Azure
GitHub Actions
Azure DevOps
RESULTS
Before and after.
Measured against the baseline agreed at the start of the engagement.
| Measure | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| New environment provisioning | ~2 weeks | < 1 day |
| Infrastructure changes peer-reviewed | Rarely | 100% |
| Configuration drift incidents | Monthly | 90% fewer |
| Audit evidence for changes | Manual collection | Pull request history |
| Resources managed as code | None | 400+ |
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