This multi-billion-dollar chemical company is one of the largest in the plastics, chemicals, and refining industries. It is publicly traded and featured on the Fortune Global 500 list. It has a presence in over 100 countries and multiple manufacturing sites across continents.

CHALLENGE

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Infrastructure provisioning was manual, inconsistent, and difficult to scale across environments.

Teams relied on fragmented tools and processes to configure resources, manage dependencies, and deploy environments, leading to long provisioning cycles, limited visibility, and increased risk of errors.

As infrastructure complexity grew, the lack of standardization made it harder to maintain consistency, slowing down delivery and introducing operational risk.

• Manual and time-intensive provisioning processes
• Lack of standardization across environments
• High risk of configuration errors and inconsistencies
• Limited visibility into infrastructure state and dependencies
• Complex dependency management impacting deployment reliability

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SOLUTIONS

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Aligned Automation implemented a parameter-driven Infrastructure as Code (IaC) framework, enabling automated, consistent, and scalable infrastructure provisioning.

A custom application was developed to define infrastructure requirements through structured input parameters, including resource selection, network configurations, storage, and workflow variables.

Using Terraform and Ansible, these inputs are translated into automated scripts that provision, configure, and deploy infrastructure through continuous integration pipelines.

The solution also integrates monitoring and alerting capabilities to provide real-time visibility into system performance and health.

Key capabilities included:

• Parameterized infrastructure provisioning for flexibility and control
• Automated deployment using Terraform and Ansible
• Standardized configurations across environments
• Built-in dependency management for reliable deployments
• Integrated monitoring, logging, and alerting
• CI-enabled workflows for continuous deployment and updates

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What Changed

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Infrastructure provisioning evolved from a manual, error-prone process into a fully automated, standardized system.

Teams can now deploy environments faster, with greater consistency and visibility, reducing risk while enabling scalable and reliable operations.