British Airways Achieved Zero-Downtime Mashery
to Apigee Migration

Client Overview

British Airways is a leading UK-based airline that has been serving customers with the best flying experience for more than 100 years. This airline connects the UK with the world by offering both domestic and international flights. With its affiliates, this airline operates around 200 destinations in over 75 countries throughout Europe, North America, South America, Asia, Africa, and Australia. These leading airlines consistently prioritize sustainability at the heart of their operations to achieve zero carbon emissions in the coming years. 

British Airways was seeking a scalable and flexible API management solution to support its expanding digital infrastructure. To ensure effortless API management with complete infrastructure control, they aimed to implement Apigee Hybrid on AWS Elastic Kubernetes Services (EKS). 

Technical Considerations

The implementation of Apigee Hybrid on AWS EKS presented several challenges:

• British Airways was more inclined towards using AWS Fargate than the Kubernetes engine, which is AWS EKS.
• Getting the cyber/information security approvals for all security measures and hardening to be put in place
• Manual configuration and setup posed a risk and required full automation, which can be achieved through extensive scripting and validation.
• New infrastructure and API changes introduced the risk of unexpected failures, requiring validation and testing post-migration.
  
• The hyper-secure environment required the airline company’s internal team to manage AWS EKS.