Coopservice: Hybrid Cloud with RH OpenShift on Azure

Coopservice is a cooperative made of more than 17.000 workers, designing and offering services such as energy and facility management, security and policing, cargo handling and logistics, cleaning and sanitizing. The partnership between Coopservice and Extra Red started in 2017, and has been going on thanks to Extra Red’s expertise in implementing and managing Red Hat OpenShift clusters.

The hybrid cloud solution is based on three Red Hat OpenShift clusters:

• two clusters hosted on Microsoft Azure
• one cluster on-premise

The solution allows the client to reduce the time to market related to the development of complex applications, switching from a monolithic approach to microservices, as well as leading the ecosystem of vendors towards a unified deploy platform that can host all the legacy applications compatible with the new microservice components.

The solution increases efficiency and reduces costs, as well as reducing development and deploy time, making the infrastructure more rational and decreasing maintenance costs. Moreover, we perfected a Disaster Recovery plan for the on-premise cluster through ODF and GitOps flows.