Pavol Antalík

I developed the configuration and deployment solution for preparing an environment to run Java applications for specific company projects in various environments (testing, staging, production) using SaltStack.

For this project, I maintained, enhanced, and optimized existing Jenkins jobs for the builds and deployments of Java applications, creating new ones upon request. To accomplish this, I migrated the old Jenkins architecture to a new "pipeline as a code" approach (pipeline plugin). I also designed the new deployment pipeline process—assembling the application, configuration, SSL certificate, deploying the script files, and publishing to specific deployment servers of customer environments.

I redesigned an outdated deployment process with a strictly synchronous set of steps while relying partially on manual input to the automated asynchronous approach. The application files are prepared in a global package repository and then a configuration database processes the splits to logically separate tasks that can be executed in parallel simultaneously.

For this project, I created a simple dashboard to display the status of processing multiple tasks in a third-party application without needing an API to connect a monitoring solution. It does this by accessing the database via the use of a custom developed simple Python REST back-end (Flask framework based) and a JavaScript front-end (jQuery based).

For this project, I created the infrastructure (deployment environment) for web applications in Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud using Terraform.

I maintained, enhanced, and optimized the existing set of configuration and deployment Ansible playbooks and also created new ones upon request.