CASE STUDY
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the team’s DevOps and continuous
improvement approaches, as well as
build, deploy, run and integrate new
infrastructure components
Red Hat Gluster Storage to provide
flexible, scalable, cluster-based storage for
OpenShift Container Platform
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application
Platform – running in a Linux virtual
machine (VM) and OpenShift – to provide
a back end for AVIATAR JavaTM and Java
Enterprise Edition (Java EE) applications
Red Hat JBoss Data Grid, to quickly
store and retrieve in-memory data
– as well as perform simultaneous
computation and querying – for key
predictive analytics capabilities
Red Hat JBoss Fuse to integrate internal
and third-party data storage sources
Red Hat 3scale API Management to
offer protected self-service application
program interface (API) management
capabilities to developers
Red Hat Ansible Tower to create and run
reusable infrastructure code and automate
provisioning tasks for Azure, Gluster and
other infrastructure components
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INTELLIGENTCIO
The AVIATAR team collaborated with
Microsoft and Red Hat to create its new
hybrid cloud environment. The initial
version of the platform was launched
in just 100 days. It now runs a growing
number of applications and predictive
algorithms, helping airlines prevent
disruptions to their operations.
Speeding application development
and delivery
For Lufthansa Technik’s DevOps teams,
one of the key benefits of adopting a new
hybrid cloud infrastructure built with Red
Hat software is the ease of collaboration
on new AVIATAR features and applications,
using capabilities from automation to self-
service provisioning.
Red Hat Ansible Tower lets DevOps team
members provision environments and
resources automatically using reusable code
and infrastructure components – without
extensive infrastructure process expertise.
For example, data scientists can now flexibly
spin up massive compute clusters as needed.
This efficiency helps the AVIATAR DevOps
teams rapidly create test environments to
gain feedback.
“If we had infrastructure that was set
up manually and wanted to change
something, we had to wait for the person
who implemented it. Instead, we have
infrastructure as code, reproducible at any
time. Infrastructure teams can just launch
Ansible Playbooks for configuration and focus
on work that’s really important or interesting,”
said Thorsten Pohl, Architect and Product
Owner for AVIATAR. “Ansible automates
everything from setting up Azure VMs and
services to installing OpenShift clusters,
Gluster storage, or third-party services.”
Improved flexibility and integration
By using enterprise open source software
from Red Hat, the AVIATAR team has
not only improved internal collaboration,
but also collaboration with industry
organisations, open source technology
communities and other external parties.
“The aviation industry is rather proprietary.
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