How a Chinese Trust Firm Achieved Top‑Tier DevOps Continuous Delivery: A Success Story
Five Minerals International Trust’s OGP platform passed the CAICT DevOps Continuous Delivery Level 3 assessment, marking the first trust‑industry certification in China; the interview reveals how standard‑based DevOps, team restructuring, automation, and cloud‑native architecture boosted efficiency, quality, and security.
Domestic and international large enterprises have shown that standardization and tool empowerment are key to success. The CAICT DevOps Capability Maturity Model provides important guidance for DevOps implementation across industries.
On December 15, 2023, the GOLF+IT New Governance Leadership Forum was held in Beijing, where the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) announced the latest DevOps and AIOps assessment results.
Five Minerals International Trust (Five Minerals Trust) participated with its "Operation Guarantee Platform" (OGP) project and successfully passed the CAICT DevOps Continuous Delivery Level 3 assessment, becoming the first trust‑industry company to achieve this certification and reaching a domestic leading level.
Interview with Executives
Q: Please introduce your company and the project you evaluated.
A: Five Minerals International Trust is a non‑bank financial trust institution under China Minmetals Group. The OGP system is a self‑developed core operation platform that addresses risks, automation gaps, and fragmented product information in standardized product operations. It creates a closed‑loop from data collection to risk monitoring and strategy execution.
Q: How does it feel to pass the DevOps Level 3 continuous delivery assessment?
A: We are proud that our project reached the domestic leading level, which improves our R&D and delivery capabilities and strengthens our digital transformation foundation.
Q: Why did you decide to join the DevOps standard assessment?
A: To optimize team structure, enhance R&D and delivery capabilities, and gain industry recognition, which helps improve our brand and learn from best practices.
Q: What benefits has the assessment brought to your company and team?
A: It improved efficiency through automated deployment and testing, raised software quality, enhanced security, fostered cross‑team collaboration, and provided exposure to industry best practices.
Q: Which data indicators show the project’s improvement?
A: The assessment led to an automated deployment workflow, reducing demand‑to‑delivery cycles from monthly to weekly, raising unit‑test coverage above 50%, achieving 100% interface‑test coverage, and shortening average build time to about 10 minutes.
Q: What are the distinctive features of the IT system you evaluated?
A: Real‑time data processing, strict security and compliance, cloud‑native micro‑service architecture, and a technology stack of Spring Cloud plus micro‑frontend built on standardized cloud middleware.
Q: Was the assessment process smooth? What challenges did you face?
A: The process was challenging due to strict standards and extensive documentation. We prepared early, strengthened team collaboration, and studied advanced industry cases, which ultimately enabled us to pass.
Q: What is the biggest gain from this year’s DevOps implementation and your next steps?
A: Significant gains include higher productivity, reduced errors, and faster issue resolution. Next, we plan to expand automation, adopt more cloud‑native and container technologies, and promote DevOps across other projects.
Q: How do you view the future of DevOps?
A: DevOps is becoming a mainstream trend worldwide, with growing market demand for DevOps talent. Continuous integration and delivery will remain central to delivering higher‑quality software faster.
Industry Participation Statistics
DevOps Capability Maturity Model Overview
The "R&D‑Operations Integration (DevOps) Capability Maturity Model" series standards are jointly developed by CAICT, the Cloud Computing Open Industry Alliance, the Efficient Operations Community, BATJ, and leading enterprises in finance, communications, and the internet. It is the first domestic and international DevOps series standard, endorsed by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and adopted by many top enterprises.
The model, finalized by ITU‑T in July 2020, covers process management (agile development, continuous delivery, technical operations), application design, security and risk management (DevSecOps), system and tool evaluation, business value management, collaborative development‑operations, continuous testing, performance measurement, platform engineering, and SRE.
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