congstar: Kubernetes platform in the cloud
One of Germany’s most popular mobile providers moves central microservices to a modern container platform – built by AOE, the team behind kloudease and congstar’s development partner since 2008.
- customers rely on congstar
- 6M+
- platform build, followed by a step-by-step migration
- ≈ 12 months
- until new components usually go live
- ≤ 1 day
Starting point
Traditional hosting slows the teams down
Limited infrastructure
The traditional hosting was hard to update and offered only limited capacity.
Separate worlds
Development and operations worked side by side – with lots of coordination and little transparency.
Demand for a service mesh
A dedicated infrastructure layer for service-to-service communication was not possible in the old hosting.
A strategic mandate
After successful first tests by the teams, the cloud migration became part of the company strategy.
What AOE delivered
First the cloud strategy, then around twelve months of platform build, then the step-by-step migration – together with the previous operator:
- Highly available multi-cluster Kubernetes platform in the AWS cloud
- Autoscaling and artefact management for DevOps artefacts
- Service mesh for communication between services
- Vulnerability scanning and a zero-trust approach to cloud security
- Migration of non-critical services first, then central microservices
Outcome
Faster to market
Campaigns and new components go live faster – usually within one working day
Happier development teams thanks to DevOps practices and modern infrastructure
Network tasks in the service mesh – more focus on business logic
An evolved security framework with zero trust
Want a platform like this – without building it yourself?
kloudease packages the experience from projects like this into an operated Kubernetes platform. In the Requirements Workshop we clarify your starting point, target picture and next steps – at a fixed price of 3,890 €.