How China Everbright Bank Reached Level‑3 DevOps Continuous Delivery: Insights and Metrics

Standardization and tool empowerment are key to enterprise success; DevOps standards and a continuous delivery pipeline can significantly improve software development quality, speed, and competitiveness.

On September 9, 2021, the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) released the 13th batch of DevOps standard continuous delivery assessment results. China Everbright Bank (CEB) participated with two projects—the self‑developed platform (POIN) and the Cash Management Cloud Service System—both achieving Level 3 in the CAICT’s DevOps Capability Maturity Model.

Assessment conducted by CAICT confirmed the bank’s progress.

Q: Please introduce yourself, your company, and the projects evaluated. Pei Yamin: I am the Deputy General Manager of CEB’s Information Technology Department, overseeing the development center.

CEB has pursued an “agile, technology, ecosystem” transformation to support national strategies, inclusive finance, and high‑quality development, ranking 32nd in the 2021 Global Bank 1000 list.

Our digital “123+N” framework (one brain, two platforms, three services, many digital products) drives wealth management, payments, and financing through technology.

The DevOps Level 3 assessment benchmarked our agile transformation and identified improvement areas.

We evaluated two projects:

POIN: a Java‑based microservice development platform supporting over 300 systems.

Cash Management Cloud Service System: a comprehensive cash‑management solution offering account, financing, settlement, liquidity, budgeting, and information services.

Q: How does achieving Level 3 impact your organization? Pei Yamin: Both projects passed Level 3, confirming our end‑to‑end continuous delivery capability and reinforcing our agile momentum.

We refined our delivery process, improved toolchains, and achieved over 90% integration success, roughly four releases per month, and faster response to business needs.

Q: Why did you join the DevOps standard assessment? Pei Yamin: Since 2016, CEB has pursued “dual‑mode IT” and, in 2018, launched a DevOps agile deepening plan, building a domain‑level “industry‑technology integration” and project‑level “dual‑state three‑mode” development system, delivering 34 agile projects and increasing release frequency.

We achieved full CI coverage, automated testing, microservices, and containerization, continuously improving delivery quality and efficiency.

Q: What benefits has the DevOps assessment brought? Pei Yamin: It provided a systematic measurement of our digital transformation, identified gaps, and guided improvements, reducing redundant effort and costs.

We built an end‑to‑end pipeline, centralized data, and established a visual dashboard, laying the foundation for a maturity evaluation model.

Q: Which metrics demonstrate the improvement? Pei Yamin: Our DevOps metric system covers 43 indicators across demand, quality, CI, testing, and deployment. Results include over 60 daily builds, >90% success rate, 16‑minute build time, and 1.7‑hour fix time.

Q: How were the projects designed? Pei Yamin: They are fully autonomous, integrating mainstream DevOps tools with bank‑specific scenarios, supporting dual‑state three‑mode agile, compatible with both legacy and cloud‑native architectures, and offering plugin‑based tool integration for end‑to‑end automation.

Q: What challenges did you face? Pei Yamin: Over 20 teams (100+ staff) tackled 130 improvement items. The platform’s strict release controls required cultural shifts, while cross‑department collaboration during the pandemic demanded strong governance and leadership.

Q: What are your next steps? Pei Yamin: We will further enhance tool robustness, expand pipeline coverage, deepen tech‑business collaboration, and invest in talent through the “Double‑Hundred” plan to build a competitive IT workforce.

Q: How do you view the future of DevOps? Pei Yamin: DevOps encompasses development, operations, design, and organizational aspects; CEB will continue to advance DevOps practices to provide high‑efficiency, high‑value business enablement.

Contact CAICT (Liu Kaili) or the Efficient Operations Community (Dong Hui) for DevOps standard assessment inquiries.