Technology
Europe
Machina
Streamlining AI Development & Deployment at Scale with Portainer
Business overview
Machina is a European software innovator specializing in grant, case, and application management systems. As they integrate AI into their platform, Machina supports multiple customer-specific instances—each containing AI components—across Docker environments and relies on a 20‑strong team of developers, AI engineers, and DevOps to drive innovation.
The challenge
As Machina ramped up its AI initiatives, they faced significant operational friction:
- Manual deployment of AI container updates took 1–2 hours daily per engineer
- Frequent errors and delays hindered testing and iteration
- Tight coupling between developers and DevOps slowed feature delivery
- Need for secure, scalable access control as their team and platform footprint grew.
results that matter
The real-world impact of smarter container management.
Proven at
Scale
80 mins
Saved daily
Platform
Agnostic
95%
Time savings
A Collaborative Community
$340k
Total saved
The solution
By adopting Portainer, Machina transformed their delivery process:
- Automated deployments using CI/GitOps, reducing daily deployment time to just 5-10 minutes - a 95 % efficiency gain
- Empowered developers with self-service deploy buttons or simple requests, cutting the back-and-forth with operations
- RBAC integration via OAuth centralized access control and eliminated redundant permission management
- Scalable container orchestration across per-customer VMs simplified AI rollout and future model updates
As a result, Machina reclaimed hundreds of person-hours annually (~$340K in savings) and positioned themselves to scale AI across 20+ team members and multiple environments.
"Per day, I spent an hour or two easily on deployments and now with Portainer and full use, that'll probably go down to at most 5-10 minutes."
Zoe Matre, DevOps Manager
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