A short-term vacation rental company on North Carolina's Outer Banks was spending more engineering time maintaining aging infrastructure than building for the future. RTS Labs ran a DevOps discovery and rebuilt their Development, Staging, and Production environments as code on Google Cloud — standardizing CI/CD, hardening security, and freeing developers from infrastructure firefighting. Note: the metrics shown on this page are illustrative estimates by RTS Labs based on the scope of the engagement, not client-reported figures.
Rental Company
DevOps Modernization & Infrastructure as Code
Google Cloud Platform
Kubernetes (GKE)
Terraform
Cloud Build
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A short-term housing rental company on the Outer Banks of North Carolina set out to streamline its CI/CD processes, reduce security and downtime vulnerabilities, and improve overall operational efficiency while lowering maintenance cost. Its custom guest, owner, and services portals — along with the APIs supporting them — ran on infrastructure that had grown organically over years.
The existing application architecture and DevOps culture did not support the modern practices the team needed. Environments were configured by hand, developers were repeatedly pulled away from product work to firefight infrastructure, and there was little current-state documentation to rely on. The result was a team spending more energy maintaining the past than building for the future.
RTS Labs was engaged to review the full infrastructure delivering those custom applications and third-party integrations, and to chart a path from the current state to a modern, reproducible, well-documented DevOps practice.
The existing architecture and DevOps culture kept engineers firefighting legacy infrastructure instead of shipping new product features.
Development, Staging, and Production were configured by hand with no infrastructure-as-code parity, making every change slow and error-prone.
Aging infrastructure carried security and downtime vulnerabilities that grew harder to manage as the platform scaled.
RTS Labs began with a series of remote workshops across the client’s development, infrastructure, data, and product teams to fully understand the current application architecture and DevOps methodology. From there, the team rebuilt the underlying infrastructure for all three environments as code on Google Cloud Platform — provisioning with Terraform, containerizing workloads on Google Kubernetes Engine, and standardizing build and deployment through Cloud Build. The work was paired with hands-on knowledge transfer so the client’s own staff could own and maintain the new platform.
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