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Global Airline — Platform Engineering at Scale
Transformed a 200+ microservices architecture with standardized CI/CD and GitOps, reducing deployment time from 4 hours to 12 minutes.
Background
A major airline operating 200+ microservices across booking, loyalty, and operations. 400 engineers across 12 countries. Deploying to production 3x per week with frequent rollbacks.
The Challenge
- 1Inconsistent CI/CD pipelines across teams
- 24-hour average deployment time
- 330% of deployments required rollback
- 4New service onboarding took 6 weeks
Our Approach
- Audited existing pipelines and identified 47 unique CI/CD patterns
- Designed golden path templates covering 90% of use cases
- Implemented ArgoCD-based GitOps with automated canary deployments
- Built Backstage-based IDP with self-service scaffolding
Technologies Used
Kubernetes (AKS)ArgoCDGitHub ActionsBackstageTerraformPrometheusGrafana
Results
Deployment frequency
3x/week15x/day
Deployment time
4 hours12 minutes
Rollback rate
30%4%
New service onboarding
6 weeks2 days
“KubeMatrix transformed how we think about platform engineering. Our developers now ship features, not fight infrastructure.”
VP of Engineering
Global Airline
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