Release Management Suite for a Large Bank in Pakistan

LyneUp, Orchestrating Software Testing, Integration and Delivery continuously, is an Enterprise CI/CD solution that is application agnostic and can be implemented with core & auxiliary systems.

Problem

Release management process at corporates normally runs primarily on email-based communication and notifications. Consequently, each stakeholder maintains their own silo of information pertaining to the release. While dealing with a number of releases at a certain point in time it becomes cumbersome to view status and aging of a particular release. Moreover, the application administrators are involved in repetitive build and deployment tasks that consume precious work time. The deployments not only include the production environment but also staging and QA environments where administrators manually deploy build for the releases process to move forward. This adds up to the total time application administrators have to spend on deployments and build creation. Furthermore, implementation of four eye principle at every stage of release management is not ensured in a systematic way and leaves the room open for unintended approvals making their way into the production environment.

Solution

A CI/CD solution that provides end to end automation of application’s release processes and exists independently to have zero impact in corporate existing eco-system. A solution that is n-tier application with cutting-edge technology stack, has separate layers / services for presentation, backend routing and notifications at each module. It also allows the user to define custom states of release process and agents can be included within those states. LyneUp platform has agents which are primary working components, can be configured to perform repetitive tasks such as creating application builds and deployments. The critical benefit of managing the release process
through LyneUp is centralized access to status of each release of multiple applications. Access to LyneUp is controlled through a well-defined access control system, which also allows custom permissions to certain users Automated Testing Automated testing is critical to CI/CD implmentation. There’s no way to automate delivery to users if there is a manual, time-consuming step within the delivery process. This inter dependency between automated testing, CI, and CD provides multiple benefits for enterprise software teams. LyneUp platform provides you the ability to automate testing for your releases as part of CI/CD pipeline.
Role based CI/CD Assign the required roles and permissions to users as per their role requirement. Fine tune the access rights for each user individually and restrict
access based on release milestones. Automate Application Build and Deployment processes A CI/CD Pipeline implementation, or Continuous Integration/Continuous
Deployment, are the major components of cutting edge DevOps environment. It bridges the inefficiencies between development and systems’ teams by automating the building, testing, and deployment of major or minor releases. Automated pipelines remove manual errors, provide standardized development feedback loops and enable fast product iterations. Multi-Application release management support Manage release cycles of different projects and different applications from one platform, LyneUp. Our platform ensures seamless tracking of progress on multiple projects. Application Agnostic Development lifecycle utilizes multiple tools and platform throughout release
implementation which may reside on multiple platforms. LyneUp gives you expertise to implement CI/CD for all major applications, tools and platforms.

TechStack

Python, NodeJS, Angular (TS), Bootstrap, Ag-grid, SCSS, MongoDB