Before working with DuploCloud, Fluree’s engineering team knew they needed help with their DevSecOps and infrastructure security for enterprise and government clients. What did Fluree need? 

Fluree’s tech stack needed to meet robust and fluid customer data security requirements, from SOC 2 to FedRAMP for public sector clients.

They knew traditional approaches would slow them down, and trying to do that in-house wouldn’t be as effective as bringing experts in. Compliance alone can stall growth for months. 

Once DuploCloud got involved, this became a playbook for any data management company looking to transform DevSecOps capability without building it all from scratch.

Key Takeaways

  • Because of the project and ongoing work with DuploCloud, Fluree was able to complete a significant Azure-to-AWS migration with full compliance evidence in under 90 days.
  • Even with limited DevSecOps resources, Fluree leveraged infrastructure as code and Kubernetes automation to modernize its entire tech stack.
  • With automated compliance and deployment pipelines, Fluree can now respond to customer security questions 10 times faster than before.

The Challenge: Modern Security Demands with Legacy Infrastructure

Fluree is a North Carolina-based data management company serving customers with increasingly sophisticated security requirements. As their platform evolved to incorporate machine learning models (ML) and AI engines, the technical debt of their clients’ legacy architecture became impossible to ignore.

The company faced a critical inflection point. Their applications were running on single-host Virtual Machines (VMs). These were solid solutions when originally designed, but inadequate for modern security and compliance standards, especially for large clients with more complex needs. 

As President Eliud Polanco explains, “The world has gotten more complicated and we have to continuously add new components.”

To serve customers requiring SOC 2 compliance and public sector clients needing FedRAMP authorization, Fluree needed to completely transform its DevSecOps capability. The requirements included:

  • Full infrastructure as code automation (IaC) for consistent, repeatable deployments
  • Scalable Kubernetes-based architecture to replace single-host VMs
  • Complete security policy documentation with penetration testing evidence
  • Audit-ready compliance frameworks for SOC 2 and FedRAMP
  • Faster response times to customer security questionnaires

Rather than building this expertise in-house, Fluree made a strategic decision to partner with DuploCloud, leveraging its experience solving similar DevSecOps challenges.

The DuploCloud Approach: Expertise Over Experimentation

Rather than assembling DevSecOps infrastructure piece by piece through trial and error, Fluree partnered with DuploCloud. 

The collaboration focused on leveraging proven patterns and automation to accelerate the transformation. 

Here’s what the transformation looked like in practice: 

Migration with momentum

What typically takes companies six months to a year was compressed to under 90 days. DuploCloud guided Fluree through a complete migration from Azure to AWS while simultaneously implementing new security controls and gathering compliance evidence. 

The migration wasn’t just a lift-and-shift; it involved a complete architectural modernization.

Kubernetes at scale

Fluree’s team was accustomed to building fully integrated applications on single VMs. 

DuploCloud helped them transition to a containerized, Kubernetes-based architecture that could scale components independently. This empowerment enabled the team to add machine learning models and AI engines without cascading infrastructure changes.

Automation as the tech stack foundation for DevOps and DevSecOps 

Infrastructure as code transformed Fluree’s deployment process. DuploCloud automated the entire tech stack from component integration through deployment to customer environments. 

Manual configuration gave way to repeatable, auditable workflows that dramatically reduced human error and accelerated delivery.

Compliance built in

Instead of treating compliance as a separate workstream, DuploCloud embedded security controls and evidence collection into Fluree’s delivery pipeline for clients. The following became standard outputs of the deployment process:

  • Penetration testing results
  • Embedded security policies
  • User role documentation

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Implementation: 90 Days to Production-Ready Compliance

Cloud migration with security first

DuploCloud orchestrated a client infrastructure migration from Azure to AWS with security embedded deeply into the data storage. This included: 

  • Identity and access management
  • Network security
  • Logging
  • Monitoring.

Evidence-ready security policies 

For organizations that need SOC 2 or FedRAMP, the burden of evidence collection can be overwhelming. DuploCloud automated much of this process, ensuring that security policies, user roles, and compliance controls were documented continuously rather than compiled during audit season.

Rapid customer response

One of Fluree’s most pressing needs was the ability to respond quickly to customer security questionnaires. This is especially crucial for government clients and organizations with more stringent security requirements. 

With automated compliance documentation and clear security policies, the team could now provide detailed, accurate responses in hours instead of weeks.

DuploCloud Helped Fluree with 10x Faster Responses for Compliance Questions

The most dramatic improvement came in customer engagement, and in the world of data management, time is money. 

Thanks to this work with DuploCloud, Fluree can now answer complex security and compliance questions 10 times faster than before. This velocity directly translates to faster sales cycles and increased customer confidence.

90-day transformation

Within 90 days of first contact with DuploCloud, Fluree completed a major cloud migration, implemented Kubernetes at scale, and gathered comprehensive compliance evidence, including penetration testing results. This timeline would have been impossible with traditional approaches.

Team efficiency

Perhaps most importantly, Fluree’s engineering team can focus on building differentiating features rather than wrestling with infrastructure complexity. 

As Polanco said, the partnership has been invaluable: “Being able to have the DuploCloud team come in, help with the design, fully automate the entire tech stack from the integration of the components all the way through the deployment to each of the customers’ environments has been really useful.”

DevSecOps as a Competitive Advantage

For data management companies, DevSecOps isn’t just about meeting compliance checkboxes anymore. It’s a strategic capability that opens markets, accelerates sales cycles, and enables engineering teams to focus on innovation rather than infrastructure maintenance.

Fluree proved it’s possible to transform completely in under 90 days. With the right partner, legacy infrastructure becomes modern architecture, compliance anxiety becomes customer confidence, and infrastructure challenges become growth engines.

The combination of infrastructure as code (IaC), Kubernetes orchestration, and automated compliance has been proven with companies serving the most demanding customers. Talk to an expert to understand how to modernize your environment here.