DoiT’s Client Services engagement with F45 Training began with a Well-Architected Review of the customer’s existing architecture and documentation of their AWS-hosted applications. DoiT’s Cloud Architects and Engineers investigated, documented and analyzed how the applications were deployed and maintained. With this review, DoiT identified two key challenges underlying F45’s struggle to streamline their software development process: ongoing maintenance and deployment reliability.

First, DoiT tackled ongoing maintenance challenges faced by F45 Training by implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with appropriately refactored modules. The DoiT DevOps team recommended containerizing the applications and deploying them on Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) to ensure a uniform infrastructure approach that could be applied to all applications with consistency. F45 was then able to easily apply the approach to four additional applications within their stack.

To address F45’s challenge in releasing more reliable deployments, DoiT proposed integrating AWS CodePipeline for these applications in order to automate the build, test, and deploy release cycle. By using this approach, F45 Training would benefit from faster and more reliable deployments, with a reduced risk of human error.

Finally, to implement these changes with minimal disruption, DoiT’s Cloud Engineers and Architects delivered Terraform modules and helped F45 Training adapt them to their specific use case. DoiT provided support during these modules’ customization, integration, and testing, ensuring a better transition to the new architecture.