The challenge
ICPAC faced severe outage risks from power/internet disruptions, manual release bottlenecks, and security gaps. Relying on over provisioned VMs, high traffic spikes led to performance issues and rising costs, stalling their ability to deliver timely, lifesaving climate alerts to 11 nations.
The solution
Incentro Africa modernised ICPAC’s setup by migrating monoliths to micro services on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and Cloud Run for automated CI/CD. We implemented Cloud Storage and BigQuery for analytics, secured systems via zero-trust custom service accounts, and automated deployment pipelines for 24/7 reliability.
The result
Data processing times dropped 90%, cutting eight-hour tasks to 30 minutes for faster early warnings. Event-based scaling rightsised resources to slash cloud costs by 40%. The zero-trust, automated architecture eliminated deployment errors and service disruptions, establishing a secure 24/7 backbone for 11 nations.
Partner role
Incentro Africa conducted a deep environment audit and executed an end-to-end modernisation – decoupling monoliths into GKE micro-services, automating CI/CD pipelines, enforcing zero-trust security, and optimising costs.
“Technology is integral to ICPAC’s operation. We rely on it to host mission-critical systems used to disseminate climate hazard information to stakeholders.”
Leonard M. Kimotho, ICPAC
