Product Launch with Cloud Migration, Modernisation & Application Delivery in under 4 weeks!

About Customer

India’s leading HRMS and Payroll management platform with a 20,000+ customer base and 2,000,000 active users.

Problem Statement

Application Modernisation & Migration from GCP to new Jio (Azure) Cloud Setup within crunched Timelines of 4 weeks.
Needed comprehensive Kubernetes implementation for infrastructure, CI/CD process, tooling, monitoring, and security for 60+ microservices, Middleware & DB on Jio (Azure) Cloud.
Needed to manage large amounts of data in Loki with extensive Tracing capabilities.
Limited Insights and observability in the existing system for system performance, engineering maturity & reliability.
A solution to store secrets that can easily be integrated with AKS for ensuring compliance and minimizing risk.
Latest version of K8s was required and all helm charts needed to be updated accordingly.

Solution Offered!

For faster time to market with security & best practices, experts at OpsTree designed & implemented BuildPiper led Modernisation & Migration journey that included:
– Setting up the infrastructure as code (IAC) in Git, backed by Terraform modules, helm charts, and k8s manifests for rolling out new features.

– Automated Environment creation, secure build & delivery pipelines using Buildpiper for all the services, thus freeing developer time spent on     repetitive tasks.

– Onboarded and configured 62 Microservices using BuildPiper BPCTL, a command-line utility. Thus, enabling users to spawn new environments    within minutes.

– Upgraded Loki setup with custom labels for enhancing log visualization.

– Integrated a comprehensive monitoring solution using Grafana, Prometheus, and Alert Manager along with custom business-level    dashboards.

– Integrated Opentelemtry with microservices and pushed tracing logs to Jaeger for streamlined tracking of API execution flow across multiple    microservices. Thus, offering a detailed overview of business-critical user journeys.
Configured an automated backup solution on Managed and self-hosted Postgresql along with retention policies for minimizing the risk of losing critical data.
Set up a Site-to-site VPN between Azure and client OnPrem providing an additional layer of security on top of their existing WAF rules.
Secrets management for services implemented using Azure Key Vault as an encrypted secrets store which not only provided seamless integration but also complied with customer privacy regulations.

Final Outcomes

5X Faster Time to Market: Successfully delivered Product Launch on Jio Azure Cloud with fully Automated setup, managed through BuildPiper!
3X Lower Cost: Overall project cost was brought down to one-third with BuildPiper along with automated, integrated ecosystem solutions for logging etc.
20X Reduction in Deployment Time: Environment Creation & Service Onboarding time brought to minutes and available On-Demand now, instead of weeks/months
Custom Dashboards: Monitoring enhancements facilitated custom dashboards which provided critical business insights for the management.