Case Study: BCP cuts cloud infrastructure deployment time by 96% with HashiCorp
Key results
The challenge
As Peru's largest bank with $39B in total assets and 2,400+ ATMs, BCP faced multi-day cloud infrastructure provisioning cycles and manual secrets handling that slowed application delivery. Deploying new cloud infrastructure took 2-3 days, and validating secrets required manual key entry.
The solution
BCP adopted HashiCorp Terraform to provision cloud infrastructure through a corporate marketplace aligned to security and operations guidelines, and HashiCorp Vault to automate secrets management. The approach avoided lock-in to a single cloud vendor while enforcing consistent controls.
“Vault has completely reshaped our approach to secrets management by eliminating manual key entry and reducing our validation timelines from an hour to just a few seconds.”
ELErika León-RavinezDevSecOps Tribe Leader, BCP
The results, in context
BCP reduced cloud infrastructure deployment times by 96%, from 2-3 days to a matter of hours, and cut secrets validation time from about an hour to seconds. The bank reported the change had a significant impact on developer productivity and time-to-market for applications.