How China Bank’s DevOps Platform Earned Top National Standards
China Bank’s software center shares how its enterprise‑grade DevOps cloud platform passed the national DevOps standard assessment with excellent ratings, boosting build success rates, reducing deployment times, and driving a culture of secure, end‑to‑end continuous delivery across the bank.
Overview
Industry practice and data show that standardization and tool empowerment are key to enterprise success. The DevOps standard and a standard‑based continuous delivery pipeline platform can significantly improve software development quality and efficiency, enhancing core competitiveness.
National DevOps Standard Evaluation
On September 9, 2021, the China Academy of Information and Communications (CAICT) announced the results of the DevOps standard system and tool evaluation. The Bank of China Software Center’s DevOps cloud platform passed the “excellent” level for the pipeline and build & continuous integration modules, indicating a leading domestic position.
Interview with Li Zhaoyun
Q: Please introduce your organization and the project you evaluated.
Li Zhaoyun: The Bank of China Software Center, a direct subsidiary of the head office, is headquartered in Beijing with branches in Shenzhen, Xi’an, and Hefei, responsible for global application system development, testing, and maintenance. The center follows the bank’s strategy of agility, vitality, and breakthrough, emphasizing digital business, ecosystem scenarios, and platformization, driven by technology empowerment and innovation.
The Quality Management Department leads the center’s quality line, establishing standards, driving DevOps construction, and supporting digital transformation for agile delivery.
The DevOps cloud platform is an enterprise‑grade solution that guides end‑to‑end agile delivery, ensuring quality while accelerating development, testing, and operations integration.
Q: How do you feel about passing the DevOps standard assessment?
Li Zhaoyun: We are pleased to have achieved excellent ratings in both “build & continuous integration” and “pipeline” modules, confirming the advanced nature of our DevOps system and its capability for agile product delivery.
Q: How important is an end‑to‑end, integrated toolchain for DevOps adoption?
Li Zhaoyun: It is the foundational condition for successful DevOps. An effective toolchain enables rapid delivery, embeds quality controls, quickly detects defects, reduces incident management costs, and creates a closed‑loop management process that boosts both speed and quality.
Q: What considerations drove your participation in the assessment?
Li Zhaoyun: Accelerating agile delivery is critical for the bank’s digital transformation. Aligning with industry‑leading DevOps tools helps identify gaps, improve processes, and scale IT agility across branches.
Q: What changes resulted from the assessment?
Li Zhaoyun: The platform now provides a unified delivery pipeline, standardizes the entire development lifecycle, embeds quality standards, and fosters a DevOps culture that guides digital transformation. The assessment highlighted strengths and areas for improvement, leading to continuous optimization.
Q: What measurable improvements have you seen?
Li Zhaoyun: Build success rate increased by 11%, deployment success rate by 22%, average build time dropped from 6 minutes to 3 minutes, and overall pipeline execution time decreased by 40%. Enhanced visual quality metrics have also improved delivery quality.
Q: What challenges did you face and how were they solved?
Li Zhaoyun: Challenges included aligning industry standards with financial‑sector security requirements, tight timelines for dual‑module assessment, and cross‑tool, cross‑department integration. Solutions involved expert guidance, milestone‑driven iteration plans, flexible organizational structures, and collaborative improvement across teams.
Q: What are the next steps for DevOps at the bank?
Li Zhaoyun: The unified DevOps cloud platform will be rolled out bank‑wide, supporting cloud product development and deployment, while strengthening headquarters‑branch coordination and continuous platform optimization.
Q: What is the future direction of DevOps?
Li Zhaoyun: DevOps is becoming a core production system, essential for digital transformation. Security is increasingly critical; SecDevOps, which integrates security into automated pipelines, is a key research direction.
Industry Participation
Data shows the number of state‑owned banks and other enterprises that have participated in the DevOps Capability Maturity Model assessments, with visual charts illustrating participation counts.
DevOps Capability Maturity Model
The DevOps Capability Maturity Model series, led by CAICT with contributions from top internet companies and financial/telecom enterprises, is the first domestic and international DevOps standard series. It was officially concluded by ITU‑T in July 2020, becoming the world’s first DevOps international standard. The assessment framework covers agile development management, continuous delivery, technical operations, application design, security & risk management, and system & tool aspects.
Contact Information
For DevOps standard assessment inquiries:
China Academy of Information and Communications – Liu Kailiang, Phone: 156 5078 6171, Email: [email protected]
Efficient Operations Community – Dong Hui, Phone: 185 1511 5139, Email: [email protected]
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