MPAC: Driving Public Sector Efficiencies with Kubernetes

The Highlights

• 40% reduction in cloud costs
• 85% reduction in cluster deployment time — from days to minutes
• 80% reduction in update and patch management time — from five days to hours

Who Is MPAC?

The Municipal Property Assessment Corporation (MPAC) is the largest assessment jurisdiction in North America. It assesses more than five million properties in Ontario, worth $3 trillion, in compliance with the Assessment Act and provincial regulations. The Corporation’s property assessments are the foundation of Ontario’s property tax system, which generates $30 billion annually for municipalities to supply local services.

For the cloud operations and infrastructure team, led by IT director Gopi Balasingam and senior infrastructure architects Chruz Cruz, David Zheng and Ken Tam, security, resilience and cost-efficiency are major preoccupations. As custodians of public data, the company must ensure its technical infrastructure is modern and robust. It’s this directive that has hastened MPAC’s journey to the cloud, Kubernetes and Rancher.

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