client: bVV
timeline: 4 Months
team: 3 Members
Project overview
The BVV sees itself as a full-service provider of company pension schemes for the financial sector in Germany.
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The BVV offers its member companies tailor-made and targeted pension solutions through three independent pension providers.
Landing Zone
Landing zone is the underlying core configuration of any cloud adoption environment.
Landing zones provide a pre-configured environment – provisioned through code – to host workloads in private, hybrid, or public clouds.
Challenges
Reduce the infrastructure cost, implement on-demand scaling
Formal identity and access management
Fast data transfer between cloud and on-premise
Implement a cloud platform that can manage and process any amount of data
Lack of reliability and security caused by physical data storage
Solution
Implemented and deployed a fully managed and scalable landing zone in GCP using Terraform
Set up varied levels of access control for different environments and subsets
Implemented hybrid cloud integration with on-premise network and services through High Availability VPN tunnel
Decided to use BigQuery, Looker, and Kubernetes as a core toolset for Big Data processing
Implemented an Identity and Access Management (IAM) model in line with GCP best practices in response to the use of citizens’ personal data
Deployed and configured data analytics services to move this aspect to the cloud premises
Results
Central allocation and real-time tracking of budgets across all cloud projects
Scalable and highly reliable solution based on the landing zone concept in GCP
Well-secured large amount of dataÂ
Direct use of company-owned services
Centralized security, monitoring, and logging approach
