August/24 Highlights; Kubernetes Deployments, and Autoscaling Features: Optimizing API Performance and Infrastructure Stability

In August, Das Meta successfully completed 98 cloud infrastructure management tasks for our clients across the world. These tasks included checking and optimizing pipelines, conducting a PoC on Grafana with CloudWatch integration, implementing autoscaling configurations, enhancing monitoring through Grafana dashboards, migrating services to Kubernetes, and improving backup and recovery processes. Each task was carefully executed to ensure smooth deployments, increased scalability, and enhanced system reliability for our clients.

Let's dive deeper in the aspects covered in August.

Resource Management and Autoscaling Enhancements

In August, we implemented advanced resource management solutions, including autoscaling configurations that optimize infrastructure performance during peak loads. Our team configured Horizontal Pod Autoscaling (HPA) across services and scaled down Aurora database replicas to reduce costs while maintaining high availability.

• DMVP-5092: Configure HPA on all services (dev, prod).
• DMVP-5056: Scale Aurora and replica count further down (to reduce cost).
• DMVP-5136: Autoscale on 60% CPU.
  

Kubernetes Migration and Service Deployment

A key focus for the month was migrating several services to Kubernetes, ensuring seamless deployment and scaling capabilities for our clients. This included deploying critical services to Kubernetes environments and stabilizing the infrastructure for optimal performance.

• DMVP-4589: Deploy client API on K8s (stage).
• DMVP-4557: Create database on Kubernetes.
• DMVP-5127: Setup NFS provisioner.

Monitoring and Observability Improvements

We deployed Grafana dashboards integrated with CloudWatch for real-time monitoring. This PoC allowed us to gain deeper insights into system metrics and set up comprehensive dashboards for our clients.



• DMVP-4711: PoC on Grafana with CloudWatch with Grafana stack services.
• DMVP-4917: Setup Grafana dashboard.
• DMVP-4939: Setup dashboard via code.

Pipeline Optimization and Stability Improvements

We tackled several pipeline issues in August, optimizing build times and ensuring the stability of CI/CD pipelines. These efforts helped accelerate development processes and streamline deployment workflows, reducing time to market for critical updates.



• DMVP-4736: Speed up www build pipelines.
• DMVP-4994: Check pipeline stability.
• DMVP-5120: Investigate GitLab pipeline issues.

Security and Certificate Management

Our team ensured that all necessary security certificates were updated across environments, reinforcing the security posture of our clients' infrastructures. This included renewing SSL certificates and ensuring compatibility with existing services.

• DMVP-5059: Renew client certificate (expiring in 7 days).
• DMVP-5009: Check & update RDS certificate.
• DMVP-5015: Check & update client 2 certificate.

Our team also covered incident management and support tasks ensuring minimal downtime and restoring normal operations for our clients.

Stay tuned for further updates and see you soon!