This case study outlines how MindCraft successfully implemented Red Hat OpenShift for a fast-growing life insurance company, a 100% subsidiary of a Tier-2 bank, to address significant operational challenges and support its business expansion. The client faced difficulties with scalability, availability, and DevOps management while modernizing multiple applications, including those used for customer onboarding, policy servicing, and claims processing. These applications were built using microservices architecture with frameworks such as Angular, Spring Boot, Node.js, and React.
To support the company’s vision for growth and ensure the stability of its critical services, MindCraft conducted a thorough analysis of the client’s infrastructure, application architecture, and operational needs. The recommendation was to implement OpenShift as the container orchestration platform to streamline the deployment process, improve scalability, and enhance observability across all applications. OpenShift was selected due to its robust capabilities for managing microservices, supporting hybrid-cloud environments, and offering extensive DevOps integration.
MindCraft began by provisioning the platform on-premises and conducting a Proof-of-Technology (POT) with several services to ensure the client’s confidence in the chosen solution. The full implementation involved migrating existing applications and provisioning necessary services such as image registries, logging systems, and event streaming solutions on OpenShift.
By adopting OpenShift and integrating Azure for DevOps, the insurance company benefited from a scalable, highly available, and efficient application environment. With features such as blue-green deployments, centralized logging, and health checks, the platform enabled the company to meet its growing business demands while minimizing downtime and operational risks.
This implementation demonstrates how OpenShift’s enterprise-level capabilities can drive application modernization, support business continuity, and offer unmatched flexibility in scaling operations.
Scalability:Hosting the applications separately led to difficulty scaling individual components as the business grew.
