Digital transformation of Bonnier’s infrastructure.
Bonnier is one of the largest Swedish media enterprises, with 175 entities in 16 countries. In Poland, the group is primarily known as the publisher of the prestigious business daily “Puls Biznesu” and “Puls Medycyny”. In the information industry, where access to reliable data must be immediate, Bonnier made a strategic decision to fully modernize its infrastructure and entrust us with complete outsourcing of IT environment development and maintenance services.
Services Used:
Client:
Bonnier Business Polska
Industry:
Media & Entertainment
Technologies:
OVHcloud
Kubernetes
Proxmox
PostgreSQL
ArgoCD
Elimination of technical debt and continuity guarantee.
The decision to modernize the environment at Bonnier resulted from the need to ensure maximum stability for key information services (including “Puls Biznesu”). The existing distributed infrastructure based on older technologies was becoming a barrier to development, and ensuring its fault-free operation required architectural changes and a new approach to management.
Minimizing failure risk (SPOF):
For a digital press publisher, downtime is unacceptable. The main challenge was to eliminate single points of failure (SPOF) and create infrastructure completely resistant to hardware failures.
Ensuring reliable 24/7 support:
Media operates without interruption. The challenge was to guarantee continuous care for critical systems without the client having to build an expensive internal IT department for on-call duties.
Increasing environment scalability:
The outdated technology stack (including Xen clusters) slowed response to changes. The new architecture had to be flexible enough to handle sudden spikes in reader traffic without issues.
Accelerating the innovation cycle:
The old infrastructure blocked team agility. It was necessary to implement DevOps culture and tools that would allow developers to quickly and safely deliver new features to production.
The transition to the new architecture and entrusting maintenance to the Tenesys team represents a tremendous quality leap for us. We gained not only a modern private cloud without single points of failure (SPOF), but above all peace of mind. Our developers can focus on portal development, knowing that the infrastructure is in expert hands 24/7.
CTO
Konrad Szewczak
Bonnier Business Polska
Building a georedundant private cloud and implementing DevOps
Bonnier entrusted Tenesys with full responsibility for modernizing and maintaining the IT environment. The project was based on multi-stage migration, close collaboration with the development team, and proceeded in several key areas:
Scope of Work
Migration to private cloud: We moved away from distributed legacy environments in favor of dedicated infrastructure in OVHcloud. Nodes of the modern Proxmox platform were deployed in two independent data centers (Warsaw and Limburg), creating a highly available private cloud.
Containerization and Orchestration (Kubernetes): We conducted a smooth migration of services from the Rancher environment to Kubernetes clusters. We organized the architecture, optimizing the number of load balancers and significantly simplifying communication paths between systems.
Automated deployments (CI/CD and GitOps): Together with Bonnier’s team, we optimized development processes. We based CI/CD on the GitOps approach (using ArgoCD), which enabled developers to safely and continuously deliver new software versions.
24/7 maintenance: We assumed full management of the production environment—including dedicated servers, database clusters (PostgreSQL), firewalls, and the network layer. We launched advanced monitoring with guaranteed response time.
Continuity guarantee and development team liberation.
The infrastructure transformation completely changed how publishing platforms operate, combining agility with rigorous security and reliability.
Key Results:
guaranteed system availability (SLA)
Ensured continuity of critical portals and incident handling without burdening the internal budget.
elimination of single points of failure (SPOF)
Secured business continuity through full redundancy of critical systems.
From technical debt to full stability.
The project result is technological peace of mind and radical acceleration of the development team’s work. Bonnier now has an automated platform that flawlessly handles reader traffic spikes and does not generate unexpected failures. The project proved that well-planned DevOps outsourcing and architecturally precise migration can simultaneously eliminate downtime risk, reduce software delivery time (Time-to-Market), and permanently optimize IT maintenance costs.
