Case Study: WCG Solutions replaces VMs with containers for government workloads with Portworx

For defense contractor WCG Solutions, Rancher and containers replace VMs for government work

WCG Solutions, a defense contractor, faced significant challenges in deploying stateful services like MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and MySQL for a U.S. military communications project. Their on-premises container environment, managed with Rancher, required a secure, highly available storage solution that could replace virtual machines and overcome the technical debt of poor configuration management and the security limitations of options like NFS.

The vendor Portworx provided a software-defined storage solution that met the military-grade security requirements. By implementing Portworx, WCG Solutions gained replicated and highly available Docker volumes, which enabled them to successfully run a fully immutable infrastructure. This resulted in greater overall situational awareness, a reduction in technical debt, and a more automated, reliable platform for their critical stateful services.

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