CICD For Warehouse Management Systems

With careful planning of the solution design and successful POCs , SquareOps came up with a solution to significantly improve Tompkins Robotics’ operational efficiency and reduced its IT costs. The Solution comprised of:

• Decoupled CI CD Pipelines: We decoupled the existing CICD pipeline by breaking it into multiple declarative pipelines for building different applications and dependency. We then introduced an umbrella pipeline which was used to trigger these individual pipelines in a defined manner. In this way, we were able to resume the pipeline from the failed stage and build individual applications as per the requirements. These pipelines would source the source code from git, artifacts from the artifactory, run code scans, build the docker images, run docker scan using trivy and push the images to the docker registry.
• DevSecOps Practices: We introduced automated security scans and assessments at various stages of the development pipeline, including code commits, builds, and deployments. This allowed them to identify and address security vulnerabilities much earlier in the development process, reducing the risk of vulnerabilities making their way into production.
• Automated Provisioning of Dynamic Environments: Terraform was used to spin up EKS clusters, which were equipped with necessary add-ons, controllers, and operators to act as test beds for new releases. The QA team used these environments to run test scripts, perform load tests and longevity tests. After the release to production, these environments were terminated using the pipeline.
• Deployment Automation: The CD part of the pipeline included controlled deployment to production once the changes passed all tests in the staging environment. We used Argo CD and Helm for rolling deployments and rollbacks. This controlled deployment of different application versions to different customers in different regions providing more flexibility to the client.