MAJOR AIRLINE SUCCESS STORY
Major Airline Slashes AWS Costs and Reduces Support Cases 10x with Li9’s OpenShift Consolidation
Dramatic Cost Savings
Achieved dramatic AWS cost savings by consolidating over 500 clusters into a single platform.
10x Fewer Support Cases
Decreased the number of support cases by a factor of ten, freeing up critical IT resources.
Centralized Management
Implemented a new centralized management system for control and consistency across the environment.
Solution Architecture
The Challenge: Hundreds of Clusters Leading to High Costs and Support Strain
The airline’s strategy of providing each development team with its own OpenShift cluster led to a massive sprawl of over 500 clusters. This decentralized environment created major issues:
- Excessive Infrastructure Costs: Each cloud-based cluster resided in its own AWS account, a practice that resulted in very high and unoptimized infrastructure costs.
- Excessive Support Strain: The lack of a central management system created a massive support burden for the IT team, which had to manage each cluster individually.
- Inefficient Onboarding: The complexity of the environment caused a long and inefficient onboarding process for new teams needing access to the platform.
The Solution: Consolidation and a Centralized Delivery Pipeline
Li9 designed a solution to migrate workloads from the hundreds of disparate clusters into a single, multi-tenant Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) cluster, built on a foundation of automation and centralized management.
Consolidated Multi-Tenant Cluster
Migrating to a single ROSA cluster immediately reduced the management footprint and laid the groundwork for massive cost savings.
Automated Onboarding & Delivery
Using the Ansible Automation Platform, Li9 drove a new Continuous Delivery pipeline and created a streamlined, automated process for onboarding new teams and workloads.
Centralized Management & Empowerment
The solution introduced a single point of control for the entire environment. Li9 also focused on knowledge sharing to ensure the airline’s team was empowered to manage the new platform.
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