Case Study: finleap connect achieves regulatory compliance and faster environment provisioning with Buoyant's Linkerd

finleap connect spins up environments in 10 minutes with Buoyant

finleap connect, a software and technology provider for the banking, insurance, and asset management industries, faced significant scaling challenges with its VM-based infrastructure. Spinning up a new environment for a customer took three to four weeks. The company needed a more agile and secure solution to meet strict financial regulations and chose to adopt a Kubernetes-based architecture, seeking a service mesh from vendor Buoyant to provide mTLS encryption without performance overhead.

By implementing Buoyant's Linkerd service mesh, finleap connect achieved its goals. The solution provided automatic mTLS for all service-to-service traffic and critical visibility into system metrics. The measurable impact was substantial, reducing the time to spin up new environments from weeks to just 10 minutes. Buoyant's Linkerd also enabled easy automation and canary deployments, allowing a small team to manage 2,000 sidecar proxies efficiently.

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