KeyBank Goes Cloud-Native, Builds a DevOps Practice and Chooses Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
KeyBank enhances developer agility and deployment speed with Linux
containers and Kubernetes orchestration, powered by Red Hat’s more
secure, flexible and open enterprise container platform
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced that KeyBank, one of the United States’
largest bank-based financial services companies, used the Red Hat
OpenShift Container Platform to expand the bank’s digital banking
capabilities.
As with many large companies, KeyBank found that application delivery
resulted in complexity growth over time, with slow manual testing,
quarterly release cycles and outages resulting in poor
Mean-to-time-Resolution (MTTR).
Among other changes, KeyBank created a DevOps practice that could create
a culture of innovation and quickly look at the marketplace for tools
that could help increase agility and customer experience. KeyBank's
DevOps team wanted to embrace an approach that also provided greater
security for customer information. Like all large financial services
organizations, the bank adheres to complex regulatory requirements that
can make it challenging to move even simple changes into production.
To help meet these goals, KeyBank’s DevOps team began considering a
container-based application platform, seeking to decrease complexity by
isolating applications from the underlying infrastructure and helping
development teams get to work with minimal configuration and management
time.
The Linux container space, however, was quickly evolving, so KeyBank
wanted a trusted partner to not only help them tap into the open source
community around containers but also to help them move containers into
production in a more secure and stable manner. Red Hat, a top
contributor to both the Docker and Kubernetes open source projects, and
its award-winning Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform fit KeyBank’s
criteria.
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is the first and only
container-centric, hybrid cloud solution built from the Docker,
Kubernetes, Project Atomic and OpenShift Origin upstream projects and
based on the trusted backbone of the world’s leading enterprise Linux
platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
provides a more secure, stable platform for container-based deployments
without sacrificing current IT investments, allowing for
mission-critical, traditional applications to coexist alongside new,
cloud-native and container-based applications.
As KeyBank already had an existing Red Hat Enterprise Linux environment,
deploying Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform allowed them to retain
consistency across their infrastructure footprints. When challenges did
arise, KeyBank’s IT team knew that they could call on Red Hat’s
award-winning Global Support Services organization to share best
practices and provide the world-class support that they needed to
continue running at scale.
In seven months, KeyBank completed product evaluation, selection, and
migration of multiple applications to Red Hat OpenShift Container
Platform, and built its container-centric environments for development,
testing, staging and production. KeyBank also created a continuous
delivery pipeline to automate the majority of application development
tasks through Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, enabling developers
to focus on moving quickly to market, reliability, and quality.
Within its continuous delivery culture and in response to customer
input, KeyBank can now look forward to application release cycles with
little to no downtime. Additionally, Red Hat OpenShift Container
Platform is now integrated with KeyBank’s automated testing, with
analysis showing that 60 percent of defects are now resolved within a
day.
KeyBank now plans to spread its DevOps teams into other projects in
order to help scale the practice across the organization.
Supporting Quotes
Ashesh Badani, vice president and general manager, OpenShift, Red Hat
“Red
Hat OpenShift Container Platform helps bring the best of containers to
the forefront, and KeyBank is a great example of an organization using
containers to modernize its IT organization while introducing new
digital services and applications to its customers. As its technology
partner in this modernization, Red Hat is ready to continue to help
KeyBank as they employ containers to enable digital transformation.”
John Rzeszotarski, director of DevOps, KeyBank
“When we
completed our initial technology review, we found that there was really
only one software vendor investing in the capabilities of Docker and
Kubernetes while providing the support and enterprise-grade hardening
that we required in a production container platform. That company was
Red Hat and the product was OpenShift. OpenShift meets these goals with
the utilization of Docker that simplifies Infrastructure engineering,
delivery, and support; moreover, Kubernetes provides the robust
reliability and service levels a flagship application requires for a
large enterprise.”
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