Automation of processes on the casino platform

Introduction

Automation is the key to stability, quick release of features and saving resources. In casino platforms, assembly and deployment, infrastructure tasks, marketing campaigns, compliance processes, monitoring and reporting are automated. This reduces the risk of errors, speeds up the processing of requests and allows the team to focus on product development.

1. CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code

Pipeline:

• Git → building a Docker image → unit/integration/smoke tests → canary/blue-green deploy to Kubernetes (Argo CD/Flux).
Infra-as-Code:
• Terraform/Terragrunt: VPC, кластеры EKS/GKE/AKS, managed-DB, CDN, WAF.
• Helm charts or Kustomize for versioning manifestos.
Auto checks:
• SAST (SonarQube), DAST (ZAP), dependency-scan (Snyk) in the pipeline.

2. Microservices orchestration and auto-scaling

Kubernetes HPA/VPA: scale-out/in по CPU, памяти, custom metrics (QPS, WebSocket-connections).
Service Mesh: Istio/Linkerd для traffic splitting, canary-релизов, circuit-breaker и mTLS.
Job Scheduler: CronJobs for regular tasks (cleanup, migrations, reports).

3. Monitoring, logging and alerts

Metrics: Prometheus собирает p95/p99 latency, error-rate, resource-usage.
Tracing: OpenTelemetry → Jaeger for distributed queries.
Logging: ELK/EFK or cloud counterparts, parsing and storing logs with retention policy.
Alerting: Grafana/Alertmanager with integration into PagerDuty/Slack via SLA.

4. Backups and Disaster Recovery

Automatic snapshots: RDS/Aurora source-all-every hour, full backup once a day.
DR procedures: Infrastructure-as-Code restores the environment to another region, DNS-switch via Route 53.
Recovery tests: Monthly drill restore on test environment.

5. Marketing automation

Campaign Engine:
• Generation and launch of shares on a schedule (cron), trigger offers (first deposit, inactivity).
• Drip chains: welcome, reactivation, VIP notifications via email/SMS/push (SendGrid/Twilio/Firebase).
• A/B tests: feature flags + multi-armed bandits, automatic efficiency analysis and roll-out of the best options.

6. Compliance and KYC/AML automation

KYC processes: automatic transfer of documents to Onfido/Sumsub → webhook statuses to PMS.
AML monitoring: real-time transaction scoring (amount, frequency) → automatic SAR → human-in-the-loop review.
Self-exclusion and limits: automatic application of limits and locks when thresholds are reached, reminders to users.

7. Payment automation

Reconciliation jobs: daily reconciliation of PSP reports with internal transactions, alerts for discrepancies> 0. 1 %.
Auto-payouts: formation of batch payments to partners and affiliates on a schedule, integration with the banking API.
Retry mechanism: exponential backoff and dead-letter queue for failed payments.

8. Reporting and Analytics Automation

ETL pipeline: Airflow + dbt: collection and transformation of data from microservices to DWH (ClickHouse/BigQuery).
Scheduled Reports: generation of PDF/CSV reports (GGR, LTV, return) and distribution to management.
Real-time dashboards: DataDog/Grafana for operational KPI monitoring.

9. Self-service и ChatOps

Admin UI: dynamic configs (feature flags, limits, promo parameters) without code releases.
ChatOps: Slack-bot команды `!deploy staging`, `!rollback release/x. y ','! status cluster ', CI/CD integration.
Runbooks in Notion/Confluence: automated button-based recovery scripts in UI.

Conclusion

Automation of processes on the casino platform covers a full cycle - from code to users and regulators. CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, real-time monitoring, marketing and compliance modules, reporting and ChatOps create a sustainable, flexible and secure ecosystem that allows you to quickly respond to market changes and ensure smooth operation.