Challenges
Needed a template-based approach towards Kubernetes management.
Ballooning cloud costs necessitated automated processes for cost optimization.
Needed real-time alerting for proactive incident management.
Operational challenges with GKE Autopilot.
Needed complete governance control over deployments in production-grade environments.
Solutions
Managed Kubernetes equipped with comprehensive operational abilities such as monitoring, logging, along with ingress & namespace management.
Implemented GitOps to generate timely CI reports evaluating the commits against quality and security standards.
Seamless onboarding of over 25 microservices and 2 Kubernetes clusters via guided UI to lower environments and through BPCTL to the production environment.
Integration with Google chat via Step Catalog for setting up real-time notifications on build and deploy details of microservices.
Integration with Allure to generate comprehensive reports on code quality, coverage, and security analysis report.
Enabled proactive monitoring with Grafana.
Enabled deployment versioning to attain governance control over deployments in the production-grade environments.
Implemented time-based HPA on production environments to scale resources on demand.
Downtime scheduler plugged in lower grade environments to shut down during nights and weekends.
Build insights feature that provides the deployment history of all builds.
