Achieving Efficient Content Management with Managed Services

Geberit has been operating the web frontend of the international websites in its own data center. The web front-ends, which are designed using the content management system First Spirit, are based on a complex structure of various infrastructure components. In addition to operating the entire infrastructure, Geberit also focused on further development and changes within the architecture as well as the professional content within the content management system.

By using Azure resources and Infrastructure as Code, a new overall solution for the international websites ought to be jointly developed by Geberit and Arvato Systems. It was planned to hand over the basic operation of the entire infrastructure to Arvato Systems according to DevOps principles. In addition to the operation of the infrastructure, Arvato Systems should also carry out further developments within the whole infrastructure with Geberit and other service providers.

During the project, a microservice platform was created for the website relaunch, on which about 140 websites from various countries worldwide are successively provided from the Azure Cloud. The cloud-based platform was built with the container technology Kubernetes. Other Azure platform services such as databases and a content delivery network are also included. Arvato Systems is supporting the operation of the cloud based platform for the production, test and QA environment as well as the ongoing development of this platform.