Case Study: Digital Transformation for Home Improvement Provider on Google Cloud

About Client

Our client is India’s largest home building and improvement destination for retailers, contractors, technicians, architects and homeowners. They are multi category & a multi brand format, where customers can shop from offline stores present nationally and/or from e-commerce platform.

Problem Statement

Our client had several offline stores and mostly operating in the area of B2B market. The primary objective was to launch their E-Commerce platform for online shopping experience and connecting B2C market. They came to us for design and implementation of highly scalable and secure infrastructure on Google Cloud that can handle high traffic volumes, ensure high availability and security, and facilitate continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD). Key objectives included:

• • Designing a robust microservices architecture with secure authentication and authorization communication
• • Ensuring scalability and high availability
• • Implementing secure and efficient CI/CD pipelines
• • Providing comprehensive monitoring and observability
• • Managing high traffic volumes with zero downtime
• • Ensuring secure data transactions and storage
• • Monitoring and maintaining the health of microservices
• • Automating infrastructure to reduce manual intervention and errors

The Solution

CloudTechner employed a comprehensive approach to cloud implementation, security, automation, and operations: The use of Google Cloud Platform, which includes services like Google Kubernetes Engine, Anthos Service Mesh, Google Cloud Build allowed our client to exercises greater agility and cost optimized solution on Cloud.

• • Microservices Deployment: Leveraged GKE to deploy and manage microservices applications, ensuring high availability and scalability.
• • Service Mesh with Anthos (Istio): Implemented Anthos Service Mesh with MTLS configuration for traffic management, security, and observability of microservices.
• • Monitoring and Observability: Used Stackdriver logging and monitoring along with Grafana and Prometheus to monitor application performance and infrastructure health.
• • Cloud Security: Deployed Cloudflare for domain management and WAF to protect against malicious traffic and attacks.
• • Infrastructure Automation: Employed Terraform for automated infrastructure provisioning and management, reducing manual efforts and errors.
• • DevSecOps: Integrated tflint, OPA to scan terraform code for any potential security misconfigurations in the code.
• • CI/CD using GCP: Utilized GCP Cloud Builds for automating CI/CD processes, facilitating rapid development and deployments.
• • Zero-downtime Deployments: Automated zero downtime deployments with approval process.

Results

CloudTechner employed a comprehensive approach to cloud implementation, security, automation, and operations: The use of Google Cloud Platform, which includes services like Google Kubernetes Engine, Anthos Service Mesh, Google Cloud Build allowed our client to exercises greater agility and cost optimized solution on Cloud.

• • Highly Available and Scalable System: Achieved 99.99% uptime with scalable infrastructure. Served close to 10K online requests on day-1.
• • Secure Infrastructure: Robust security measures ensured data protection and compliance. Use of Anthos Service mesh with MTLS implementation
• • Enhanced Observability: Comprehensive monitoring setup with Stackdriver , Grafana and Prometheus, enabling proactive issue resolution.
• • Improved Deployment Cycles: Streamlined CI/CD processes, reducing deployment times and improving development speed. Self-servce CI/CD process and continuous deployment with 1 production release every week.
• • Cost Optimization: Efficient use of GCP services and automation reduced operational costs.
• • Increased Sales: Digital transformation helped our client 20% increase in their overall sales