Jenkins based CI/CD Rollout

Client Overview

The client is an American energy company that designs and manufactures crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells and solar panels based on an all-back-contact solar cell invented at Stanford University. The client has built comprehensive portals and applications on the Salesforce platform

The Challenge

The client has multiple SCRUM teams distributed across the world working on future releases.
The client used AutoRabit for DevOps (continuous deployment and code version management via GIT).
The overhead of deployment was very high and needed 3 DevOps engineers to provide the release support.
The pre and post steps were manual and took hours to complete on release night. That led to a lot of time wasted from engineers and managers who needed to be on release calls.

Mirketa Solution

Eliminated AutoRabit by implementing a Jenkins based CI/CD solution.
Built custom solutions for automating pre/post steps and automated destructive changes.
Removed all manual steps for pre and post-deployment.
Implemented Feature Branching and triggered deployment based on the story status changes in Pivotal.
Move stories to relevant releases based on story statuses in Pivotal which gave visibility on release scope to all using Pivotal.

Value Delivered

Reduced the release engineering team from 5 people to
Built and deployed the solution in 4 months
providing ongoing services for Salesforce Release Management and Environment Management.

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