Enhancing CI/CD Efficiency and Infrastructure Automation for a Leading EdTech Platform
Accelerating deployment and improving reliability through automated infrastructure and CI/CD workflows
60% Faster infrastructure provisioning
enabled by automated environment setup
Lower CI/CD failure rates
achieved through pipeline standardization with GitHub Actions
About the Client
A leading EdTech company providing an interactive video-based learning platform for learners and educators worldwide. The platform supports content creation, delivery, engagement, assessment, and real-time analytics, enabling enhanced learning experiences across devices and educational environments.
Industry
EdTech
Years in business
18+ Years
Employee count
51-200
Presence
Global
“Forgeahead helped us modernize our cloud infrastructure in a way that improved scalability, reliability, and overall efficiency for our research platform.”
Dr. Michael Harrington
Chief Information Officer
the need
The client needed to optimize environment setup and improve CI/CD efficiency across its infrastructure. A significant portion of environment provisioning was manual, which led to delays, inconsistencies, and human errors.
The existing Jenkins-based CI/CD pipelines were complex and unreliable, resulting in slower deployments, reduced developer productivity, and operational inefficiencies.
The platform required a more automated, reliable, and scalable approach to infrastructure management and deployment workflows.
the solution
Forgeahead implemented a modern DevOps transformation aimed at automating infrastructure provisioning and streamlining CI/CD workflows across environments.
Infrastructure provisioning was automated using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform and AWS CloudFormation. This enabled consistent and faster setup of QA and production environments while significantly reducing manual intervention and configuration errors.
To further simplify and improve deployment processes, the existing Jenkins pipelines were replaced with GitHub Actions. This modernization effort reduced complexity, improved reliability, and enhanced execution speed across CI/CD workflows, resulting in more stable and scalable release processes.
The Impact
Faster Infrastructure Deployment
Accelerated environment provisioning through Infrastructure as Code automation.
Reduced Manual Effort
Automated decommissioning and provisioning of resources minimized operational overhead.
Improved Deployment Efficiency
Streamlined CI/CD workflows reduced build and release cycle times.
Lower CI/CD Failure Rates
Migration to GitHub Actions significantly improved pipeline reliability.
Stronger Resilience and Recovery
Improved disaster recovery with faster failover and restoration capabilities.
Reduced Operational Complexity
Simplified CI/CD architecture by eliminating heavy Jenkins dependencies.
Role of AWS
AWS services played a key role in enabling scalable infrastructure and operational efficiency. AWS EC2, Lambda, ECS, S3, and CloudFront provided a flexible and scalable foundation for application workloads, ensuring efficient resource utilization and performance at scale.
AWS CloudFormation enabled standardized and repeatable infrastructure provisioning, ensuring consistency across environments. Additionally, AWS CloudWatch, Kinesis, and DynamoDB supported real-time monitoring, performance tracking, and optimized resource utilization, helping the platform operate efficiently under varying workloads.
Tech Stack
The platform leveraged a robust AWS-based cloud infrastructure, including AWS EC2, Lambda, ECS, EKS, S3, and CloudFront.
DevOps and CI/CD processes were powered by GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Terraform, Docker, Ansible, and Kubernetes. Monitoring and observability were handled through AWS CloudWatch, AWS X-Ray, Datadog, Kibana, and PagerDuty.
Data and messaging systems included DynamoDB, AWS Kinesis, Kafka, and EventBridge. Security and access management were enforced using AWS IAM, AWS WAF, and Amazon ECR.