A great and innovative partner is all you need to excel in your field. The success story of Keystone strategies says it loud. With its traditional practices, the technical teams of the firm were feeling a need for change so that the processes could become fast and more secure.
Keystone Strategies approached one of the leading service providers in DevOps and IT Solutions – Zivost Technologies, and the rest is history. Zivost Technologies helped Keystone Strategies transform their entire Cloud & DevOps infrastructure. Let’s have a look at the journey of this transformation.
Infrastructural changes for meeting challenges
Some changes were made by Zivost Technologies within the process to make things better and faster with utmost security. The first thing to execute was making separate clusters to improve safety and performance. The Zivost team started by making three different clusters according to the requirement and keeping in mind the increasing availability and workload. The segregated workloads helped Keystone Strategies provide a better experience managing and interacting with the application.
We successfully migrated all the processes to Kubernetes and facilitated the migration of applications to public or private clouds. With this upgrade, Keystone Strategies can now operate in any environment without any functional loss.
Not only this, Zivost helped to deploy scalable apps to make the processes better. Some of the applications deployed by Zivost for Keystone Strategies were:
- Kuberflow
- Scrapy
- Airflow
- Dremio
These applications made it easier to
- Curate, process, and streamline any data
- Deploy ML workflows
- Scale Data Processing and ML workflows
Scheduling and monitoring workflows have never been this easy for Keystone Strategies.
CI/CD
The next crucial step was setting up CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions. There is no need to deploy applications manually anymore. Being an IT solutions firm, keeping your data and processes secure and easy to manage is essential. This concern of Keystone Strategies was taken care of by Zivost as it containerized all the existing apps and created pipelines for them; hence, the firm can now deliver the projects faster with agility, efficiency, and flexibility.
Monitoring & Logging
A highly overlooked part of the DevOps ecosystem is the Monitoring and Logging System. It is a crucial part because this is responsible for providing you the insights about the application, which helps you plan the future of your business.
Using Grafana and Prometheus, Keystone monitors the ingress and egress traffic and visualizes the data flow of the deployed applications.
They rely on Alertmanager for email alerts for any errors in the process.
A good Logging solution will also help you decrease the time it takes to identify bugs in your system and meet specific compliance requirements required for some industries.
The development team at Keystone relies entirely on the logs provided by Loki and Grafana Log Visualizers. They can filter the old records or view the same in real-time, making the operation lifecycle much faster.
Security
To ensure proper processes security, Zivost implemented a Single Sign-On (SSO) set up throughout the organization using Azure AD (Active Directory), simplifying the management of user IDs and passwords for the users and the administrators of Keystone Strategies.
Not only this, Two-Factor Authentication was implemented by Zivost on all apps, which added an extra layer of security. Security is crucial because employees receive various emails. 2FA resulted in safe and secure login for emails and other application accounts. Additionally, Strict AWS (Amazon Web Services) IAM policies were imposed, making the AWS account secure against unwanted usage.
Keystone Strategies has got all the scalability issues covered as Zivost helped in processing 100+GB data daily with the support of all the deployed apps. All the deployed apps have their specific contribution to making all the organization’s processes seamless and more secure and increased scalability.
Backup and Disaster Recovery
Loss of all the data is a nightmare for any organization, and the case is critical if the organization is the one dealing in the IT or Consulting sector. To save Keystone Strategies from any such situation, Zivost took the backup of all data from storage, configuration, and services. They also demonstrated the disaster recovery process in a new environment successfully. There is no need for the organization to worry about data loss as it is all backed up.
Bonus – Cost Optimization
The architectural changes and processes implemented usually increase the cloud bills substantially. However, Zivost uses its time-tested and state-of-the-art cost optimization strategies and techniques while performing any tasks.
These strategies helped bring down the AWS cost by almost 40% of its expected cost while boosting the performance, reliability, and scalability at the same time.
Keystone strategies have sorted all the problems without much change in their processes. The Zivost Technologies proved to be the correct port of call for Keystone strategies.