True Prodigy creates elite, cloud-native software applications for the mass appraisal and management of property. Leveraging modern technology, they provide powerful and efficient solutions to their clients, requiring a robust and easily replicable infrastructure to support their diverse customer base.
True Prodigy, a provider of elite software for property appraisal, engaged Cloud303 to standardize its complex AWS infrastructure. Their environment, a mix of manual and CloudFormation deployments, lacked consistency and made management difficult. Cloud303, as True Prodigy's MSP, led a strategic project to capture the entire existing infrastructure and codify it exclusively in Terraform. This initiative transitioned True Prodigy to a unified Infrastructure as Code (IaC) model, enabling robust, automated, and secure management of their Production, Staging, Development, and Client environments without service disruption. The result was a fully controlled, versioned, and easily replicable infrastructure, significantly enhancing operational efficiency and deployment speed.
True Prodigy's existing AWS infrastructure had been built over time using a combination of manual deployments and AWS CloudFormation. This hybrid approach led to inconsistencies across their various environments (Production, Staging, Development, and Client-specific instances), making infrastructure management complex and error-prone. The lack of a single, unified Infrastructure as Code (IaC) standard made it difficult to automate deployments, ensure consistency, and rapidly provision new environments for clients. They needed to standardize their entire AWS footprint under a single, powerful IaC tool to gain better control, visibility, and automation capabilities.
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Cloud303, an AWS Premier Partner and True Prodigy's Managed Services Provider (MSP), was engaged to lead a strategic migration of their infrastructure management. The core of the project was to capture True Prodigy's entire existing AWS infrastructure—across all accounts and services—and codify it exclusively using Terraform.
The key steps of the solution were:
Comprehensive Infrastructure Audit: Cloud303 performed a thorough audit of all existing AWS resources in True Prodigy's Production, Staging, Development, Backup, and Client Chime environments.
Terraform Codification: Cloud303 engineers wrote comprehensive Terraform templates to represent the entirety of the audited infrastructure. This included everything from networking and security groups to databases, container services, and CI/CD pipelines.
Stateful Import: Instead of tearing down and rebuilding, Cloud303 meticulously imported every existing, manually-deployed, and CloudFormation-managed resource into the newly created Terraform state. This critical step brought the live environment under Terraform management without any service disruption.
Unified IaC Standard: By the end of the project, CloudFormation was decommissioned as an IaC tool, and all infrastructure was managed exclusively through a single, consistent, and version-controlled set of Terraform code.
This project focused on the management and codification of True Prodigy's existing, extensive AWS footprint. The key AWS services brought under Terraform management included:
Amazon ECS: For running backend containerized services.
AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy: For CI/CD automation.
Amazon S3 and Amazon CloudFront: For hosting and distributing the frontend application.
Amazon RDS (MySQL and PostgreSQL) and Amazon ElastiCache (Redis): Constituting the core data layer.
Core Networking and Security: Including VPCs, Security Groups, WAF, and Route 53.
AWS Security & Governance Tools: Services like GuardDuty, CloudTrail, and KMS were also captured to ensure security best practices were codified.
As True Prodigy's MSP, Cloud303 provided deep expertise and hands-on support:
Pre-Implementation: Cloud303 collaborated with True Prodigy to define the project scope, success criteria, and technical approach for migrating to Terraform.
Implementation: Cloud303's team of certified experts executed the entire project, from writing the Terraform code to performing the delicate import of the live infrastructure. They ensured that the transition was seamless and that the new IaC environment perfectly matched the existing architecture.
Post-Implementation: Cloud303 provided documentation and training to the True Prodigy team on the new Terraform workflows. As their MSP, Cloud303 continues to manage, monitor, and optimize the AWS environment using the new, streamlined Terraform foundation.
The transition to a unified Terraform environment delivered significant advantages:
Full Infrastructure Control and Visibility: True Prodigy now has a single source of truth for their entire AWS infrastructure, enabling clear visibility and consistent management.
Rapid and Reliable Deployments: With a standardized Terraform codebase, provisioning new, identical environments for clients has become a rapid, automated, and reliable process.
Reduced Operational Risk: Automating infrastructure management with Terraform has eliminated manual configuration errors and ensures that all environments are built to the same security and operational standards.
Enhanced Agility: The True Prodigy team can now make infrastructure changes with confidence, knowing they are version-controlled and peer-reviewed, leading to faster innovation.
