Success Stories

GAF Enhances Release Management with Blue/Green deployments with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

OVERVIEW


GAF is North America’s largest manufacturer of commercial and residential roofing. It has successfully grown the company to nearly $3 billion in sales as a result of its relentless pursuit of quality, combined with industry-leading expertise and comprehensive roofing solutions.

Business Challenge

GAF is seeking advanced software release management capabilities to provide reliable testing, continuous (no-outage) upgrades, and instant rollbacks. 

  • Client:GAF
  • Project url: www.gaf.com
  • Category:Manufacturing/Technology

InCycle implemented blue-green deployment, a proven and safe method for continuous software deployment. Blue-green deployment is a release management technique that reduces risk, simplifies upgrades and eliminates downtime.

Solution

Benefits


  • Azure Services including networking, key vault and Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • AKS Clusters
  • AKS-managed collection of Kubernetes nodes
  • Automated CI/CD and orchestrated deployments
  • Infrastructure as code (IaC).
  • Advanced release management
  • Reduced risk
  • Increased agility
  • Enhanced testing capabilities.
  • Zero down time
  • Instance rollbacks

 

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