Case Study: Delta Airlines achieves 30-minute compliant VM self-service and reduced operational overhead with CloudBolt Software

VMware vRealize Automation Advanced Extensibility Case Study

Delta Air Lines faced major delays and operational complexity as it modernized applications and migrated its datacenter — inconsistent VM turnaround (some users waited up to 180 days), manual “snowflake” builds, and more than six teams involved per deployment. To solve this, Delta engaged CloudBolt Software to deliver a cloud automation platform leveraging VMware vRealize Automation and Ansible Tower with integrations for IPAM/DNS (Infoblox) and F5 BIG‑IP to replace ticket-based requests with a self-service automation portal.

CloudBolt Software implemented a policy-driven, metadata-based automation solution and a Cloud Engineering team, building an automated pipeline (Jenkins → vRA → CloudBolt integrations → Ansible Tower) and dynamic, smaller blueprints to eliminate hand-offs. The platform went live in the three-month target window, enabled corporate-compliant non‑production VMs to be provisioned within 30 minutes, reduced blueprint sprawl and operational overhead, and replaced slow, manual processes with repeatable self‑service deployments.

Delta Airlines