Slashing Deployment Time from Weeks to Hours with VCF Automation

Background

Protecting the cyber-physical systems that connect our digital and physical worlds means securing IT, OT, and IoT security at scale. As one leading cyber-physical systems security company grew, it discovered that its deployment infrastructure was beginning to create serious bottlenecks. They needed to modernize fast, so they brought in TeraSky to build an automation solution that would work for both IT ops and DevOps teams.

Challenge

The company had built an in-house deployment tool that worked…until it didn’t. The tool was hardwired to specific applications and couldn’t scale. Even worse, it created constant tension between DevOps and IT teams, who were both forced to work around its limitations.
Simple deployments that should have taken hours were stretching into days, slowing down product releases, updates, and innovation. The company needed a modern solution that could speak both IT and DevOps languages and integrate seamlessly with its existing tools, such as Terraform and Kubernetes. No small ask.

Solution

TeraSky replaced the legacy tool with Broadcom’s VCF Automation, a platform that bridges old-school IT management with modern DevOps self-service. Instead of DevOps teams submitting tickets and waiting for IT to provision infrastructure, they could now self-serve through a portal while IT maintained governance and control behind the scenes. The solution had three key pieces:

• a unified automation framework built on best practices to standardize how infrastructure gets provisioned and managed
• deep integration with the company’s existing Terraform and Kubernetes setup, so teams could keep using the tools they knew
• complete visibility into every deployment with real-time monitoring and tracking from request to completion

“This project was unique because the client’s DevOps team actually led the VCF Automation adoption, not IT, which almost never happens,” says Yev Berman, Solution Architect at TeraSky. “We had to make sure the platform gave IT the governance they needed while giving DevOps the speed and self-service they wanted. By hooking into their Terraform and Kubernetes investments instead of replacing them, we turned VCF into a platform that works for everyone.”
As a result, VCF Automation became the company’s core DevOps platform, managing both VMware and public cloud workloads based on smart policies. The complexity is all handled behind the scenes, so users just get things done.

Bottom Line

The impact was immediate: deployment times dropped from days to hours. The IT-DevOps friction: gone. Deployment success rates went way up. Everything just works faster and better.

“Working with TeraSky on VCF Automation changed how we operate,” said the company’s platform team leader. “They fixed our immediate problems. But they built something that sets us up for the future. Our IT and DevOps teams now collaborate effectively, our existing tools continue to work perfectly, and we have achieved the speed and control we were missing. It’s exactly what we needed.”

Even better? The company now has infrastructure that grows with them. The platform supports both VMware and public cloud workloads, enabling them to optimize where each application runs based on performance, cost, and compliance needs. As the business continues to push boundaries in cybersecurity, its infrastructure keeps pace rather than holding them back.