Automated deployments with EKS migration for Klub one of India's largest Revenue Based Financing investor

Klub is a fintech play providing growth financing to high-affinity brands. Klub’s investment platform, which utilizes financial innovation, community engagement, and deep data-driven analytics, provides skin-in-the-game growth capital to entrepreneurs of much-loved brands across sectors.

Business Challenges:

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• Limited scalability: ECS had limitations in terms of scalability, making it difficult to handle large-scale applications and spikes in traffic.
• Vendor lock-in: ECS was a proprietary solution, which meant that the company was locked into Amazon Web Services (AWS) and could not easily migrate to other cloud providers.
• Complex application architecture: Klub applications had a complex architecture and it had a lot of platform dependencies.

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To address these challenges, Klub decided to migrate to Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), a managed Kubernetes service offered by AWS.

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Solution:

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• Containerization: Klub already containerized their applications using Docker, making it easier to manage and Scale them on Kubernetes.

• Monitoring and scaling: Kubernetes tools such as Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) and Kubernetes Dashboard to monitor and scale their applications as needed.

• Cloud native: Klub wanted to have a platform agnostic solution so that it would fit all their customer's needs.

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Business Impact:

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• Scalability: EKS provided Klub with greater scalability when it comes to managing their critical financial components, and independently scale its event-driven architecture.
• Flexibility: Kubernetes and EKS provided Klub with greater flexibility, enabling them to easily move to other cloud providers if needed.
• Increased efficiency: Kubernetes and EKS enabled the company to automate their deployment process, reducing the time and effort required to manage their applications.

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Overall, the migration to EKS helped Klub to increase scalability, flexibility, and efficiency, enabling them to handle their growing platform more effectively and compete more effectively in their industry.

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Tools used:

Terraform, EKS, Ingress controller.