Bokbasen provides a wide range of services to all parts of Norway’s publishing community.
The company builds and maintains the Den norske Bokdatabasen catalogue containing data about all Norwegian publishers. By making use of this single centralized register, the industry can easily make use of the data – in online stores, bookshops, libraries and schools – instead of spending time gathering it, as is the focus in many other countries.
When e-books entered the market, Bokbasen was quick to build the infrastructure to support them, including a streaming service for audiobooks. AWS partner Basefarm has been hosting and managing operations for Bokbasen in its private cloud since 2012.
In 2017 Bokbasen started utilizing AWS for storing and transcoding of audio files.
In 2018 Bokbasen migrated their public website to AWS.
In 2019, Bokbasen set out on a new mission to digitize books and learning materials, beginning with Digitalelev, a product for management and procurement of digital learning materials in schools, and Allvit, a platform for distribution of textbooks and resources for higher education.
DevOps
DevOps represents a culture shift that integrates the team that authors code, with the team that operates it, forming a single team. Instead of each software release containing many, potentially disruptive changes that are all released at once, teams are encouraged to release small changes, more frequently, thus reducing the impact of change and making it easier to test and release.
Basefarm engages with customers to support their DevOps business and technology transformations.
The customer chose to use a deployment strategy that involved:
- Building a single artifact for all environments
- Release early, release often
- Use a rolling deployment to gradually replace or upgrade services
- Always fix defects by rolling forward to a new release
It was important for Bokbasen that their own DevOps team had the power to deploy consistently to all environments, including production.
Products used in DevOps Toolchain:

Deployment
- HashiCorp Terraform
- AWS CodePipeline
- AWS CodeBuild
- AWS CodeDeploy
- AWS ECR
- Flyway

Config
- AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store
- Spring Cloud Config

Monitoring
- Datadog
- io
- AWS CloudWatch
- AWS CloudTrail

Testing
- RunScope

Version control
- GitHub
- AWS CodeCommit

Notifications and Collaboration
- Slack
About Basefarm
The company provides strategic advice, architecture and implementation together with the management and operation of solutions to several different cloud platforms.
The business was founded in 2000 in the Nordic countries and today there are 550 leading engineers and advisors working in Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands, Germany and Austria.
Basefarm was ranked highest in Whitelane’s IT Outsourcing study Nordics 2018 and was approved by Gartner as cool vendor supplier at the European Cloud Computing Market 2015 for our unique methodology in application operations.
In August 2018, Basefarm was acquired by Orange Group and is now an Orange Business Service subsidiary.