• Saving banks from technical debt: How Atruvia built secure, self-service infrastructure Maile Chaffin-Quiray Speed & agility Infrastructure automation Secrets & identity management Terraform Vault Feb 19, 2026 Maile Chaffin-Quiray Share article Twitter share LinkedIn share Facebook share Copy URL Outdated IT systems cost financial services firms an average of$100 million annually, including $31.7 million in losses from cyber threats. • For IT service providers like Atruvia - responsible for maintaining the core infrastructure behind hundreds of banks and millions of customer transactions - this reality underscores the urgency of modernization. • Serving over 900 financial institutions in Germany, including Volksbank and Raiffeisenbank, Atruvia manages one of Europe’s largest financial IT ecosystems: 91 million accounts 9.3 billion annual transactions 26,000 self-service machines nationwide. • Like many enterprises born in a pre-digital era, it faced fragmented automation, sprawling hybrid environments, and rising compliance demands. • To keep delivering trusted, always-on banking services, Atruvia had to evolve from within. • With HashiCorp’s support, the company: Reduced cluster provisioning from 3 months to 2 hours Cut network setup time from weeks to minutes Standardized pipelines and configurations across hybrid environments Established a company-wide standard for infrastructure as code (IaC) »Challenge: Manual workflows and process debt After years of struggling with a fragmented tech stack, Atruvia announced a new strategic direction: Evolve from a traditional IT service provider into a digitalization partner for Germany’s cooperative banking sector.

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  • Outdated IT systems cost German banks an average of $100 million a year, with $31.7 million lost to cyber threats. Atruvia, the core‑infrastructure provider for over 900 German financial institutions, faced fragmented automation, hybrid environments and rising compliance demands. Partnering with HashiCorp, Atruvia adopted Terraform and GitOps to replace manual, ticket‑based provisioning with a single source of truth and reusable IaC modules. The shift cut cluster setup from three months to two hours, reduced network configuration from weeks to minutes, and standardized pipelines across its 91 million accounts and 9.3 billion annual transactions. The result is a secure, self‑service platform that supports Atruvia’s new role as a digitalisation partner for cooperative banks.

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