RSPB

Case Study

Cloud & DevOps Services

The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) was operating with a traditional waterfall IT team setup, presenting a clear opportunity to modernize their processes and technology. KO Technologies provided comprehensive DevOps Services focused on instilling a collaborative culture in new projects. Our work began with initial coaching to establish the DevOps mindset and was followed by showcasing key automation tools. This engagement fostered a collaborative forum for improving ways of working and introduced modern tools like Terraform and Packer to drive automation across the organisation.

The Client

The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) is a charitable organisation registered in England and Wales and in Scotland, founded in 1889.

  • Name
    RSPB
  • Turnover
    £ Non profit
  • Location
    United Kindgdom

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Platform Lead

Challenges

  • A traditional waterfall IT team setup limited scope for modern processes and technology improvements.
  • The need to instil a DevOps culture in new projects to promote collaborative delivery across the organisation.

Solutions

  • DevOps Coaching: Phase 1 focused on helping staff understand the DevOps mindset and the benefits of automation.
  • Tool Showcase: Phase 2 demonstrated tools to assist with automation, specifically within the Azure environment.
  • Collaborative Platform: Helped to use Atlassian tools and created a collaborative forum to discuss and improve ways of working.
  • Automation Implementation: Showcased and implemented Terraform and Packer with Windows containers to drive automation.


Results

At KO Technologies, we believe the numbers speak for themselves. Explore the tangible impact of our strategic implementations, from accelerated deployment timelines to immediate cost reductions and robust system performance.

Speed to innovation is vastly reduced by delivering a modern migration to AWS. We have reduced time to market by 75% by deploying high impact automation.

Modern scalable infrastructure, rather than static and operational burdened servers.

Enhance Observability with Datadog –  increasing service levels and lowering time to identify problems.

Teams collaborate seamlessly with the unified Tools and enhanced Devops Techniques

Toolbox

AWS, ECS, Terraform, Terragrunt, Packer, OIDC, GitHub, Datadog, Atlassian

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