Case Study: Financial Services Provider achieves 67% cost reduction and eliminates configuration drift by containerizing 100 Apache instances with UpGuard

Financial Services Company - Customer Case Study

Financial Services Company, a large California-based financial services firm, wanted to containerize 100 Apache instances with Docker but faced chronic configuration drift and the burden of compiling Apache from source monthly. Already an UpGuard customer, they needed machine-readable documentation and consistent builds to safely move legacy servers into containers.

UpGuard scanned their environments to produce executable documentation and policies that were exported directly as Dockerfiles, provided continuous validation and debugging, and enabled engineers with little Docker experience to generate and deploy containers. Using UpGuard, the team completed a 1-week POC and proved ROI in a month, containerized 100 Apache instances, reduced project costs by 67%, saved two months of effort, delivered an estimated $35,000 ROI, and eliminated a major vector of configuration drift.