Ample Organics builds technology that supports the
Canadian cannabis business. They make adhering to
compliance requirements easier by providing complete
visibility into the supply chain of cannabis
products from seed to harvest.
Since
the legalization of marijuana in Canada in 2018,
Ample Organic’s business has grown tremendously.
Today, about 70% of the Canadian cannabis market
uses their software platform to track and report
every stage of production and sales.
Managing
the growth of the business, while maintaining
customer SLAs, and meeting rigorous compliance
standards is not an easy job for Ample Organic’s
DevOps team. Glen Yu, Cloud Architect at Ample
Organics, experiences this pressure first hand.
Increasing Complexity and Lead Time Causes
Frustration
Ample Organics first brought in Rundeck to enable
Self-Service operations and extend who could perform
operations tasks. Ample Organics’ QA team consisted
of contractors that helped with the businesses’
myriad of deploys. However, because of the
complexity in some of the toolings and the strict
compliance measures that needed to be met, the
contractors had limited access to most of the
underlying infrastructure, making it difficult for
them to efficiently do their jobs. When a deployment
was needed, the contractors filled out a ticket and
assigned it to the Ample Organics infrastructure
team--who then had to find time to complete the
request in between their daily tasks.
Before Ample Organics implemented Rundeck, this
tedious process happened 5-7 times a day - with a
lot of wasted time in between. Everyone was
frustrated. Glen and the infrastructure team were
unhappy with the number of daily interruptions, that
increased as the business grew, and the contractors
were frustrated at the amount of time they spent
waiting for their requests to be fulfilled by the
infrastructure team.
Enabling Safe, Self-Service with Rundeck
Ample Organics developed Self-Service runbooks for
infrastructure provisioning in Rundeck, allowing
their contractors to safely provision environments
themselves. The results?
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Their contractors save time and frustration
because they no longer needed to wait for an
environment to be provisioned.
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The infrastructure team at Ample Organics
experiences 5-7 less interruptions per day and
could rest easy knowing that Rundeck’s
compliance-friendly solution allows them to
extend who could perform operations tasks
operations tasks, while keeping them in
compliance.
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Less lead time allows software deploys to be
shipped faster, getting product to customers
faster.
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And with all of the time saved, the
infrastructure team can focus on product
improvements that better the business.
