GFT deployed a team consisting of an HPC Cloud Architect/Project Manager and two Cloud DevOps Engineers to the project, which was funded through Google PSF for 2 months
- GFT designed a target architecture for the deployable reference architecture and put together a backlog in order to deliver the project in an Agile fashion with weekly sprints and “show and tells”.
- The backlog included user stories to create a basic DataSynapse GCP deployment; automating the deployment using Terraform, Ansible and Powershell; incorporating networking and security best practices; implementing autoscaling functionality (using both CPU metrics and a custom metric reading the number of upcoming tasks from the GridServer Director); encryption of all data using Customer Managed Encryption Keys (CMEK); integrating all logging and monitoring activity with Stackdriver; implementing DevOps practices to deploy GridLibs using a Jenkins CI/CD pipeline and demonstrating visual analytics of GridServer workloads through TIBCO Spotfire integration.
- With some help from TIBCO, Google and the banking client, GFT managed to deliver all user stories in the backlog in the 2 month timeframe.