Danone in Russia Improved Web Resource Management with Mail.ru Cloud Solutions

2020: Migrating Site to Cloud Mail.ru

Danone Russian Division migrated enterprise web resources to. Mail.ru Cloud Solutions (MCS) Cloud Platform This became known on November 19, 2020. Migration cloud to allows you to centrally manage your company's sites at the regional level, as well as ensure rapid deployment and reliable hosting.

In Russia and the CIS, Danone has more than 100 sites for customers and employees as of November 2020. Previously, web resources were located at the capacities of different providers, which made it difficult to manage and control security. And as sites grew larger over time, they became more difficult to manage. Therefore, in July 2020, in order to consolidate and optimize resource administration, the company began a project to migrate the first part of sites to the cloud.

When choosing a technology partner, Danone focused on its digitalization roadmap: it is important that the cloud offers the entire stack of technologies to support it. The main technology for starting the transition was Kubernetes for managing web resources. The architecture of the Kubernetes MCS clusters met Danone headquarters standards and turned out to be beneficial compared to the proposals of other Russian providers.

The partnership with MCS allowed Danone to quickly implement Kubernetes technology and gain positive experience with the tool. MCS organized a training session for Danone IT specialists and advised on the transition to microservice architecture.

Due to the lack of charging of network traffic on the Mail.ru Cloud Solutions platform, the company was able to eliminate overspending and optimize the budget for IT infrastructure. In addition, the built-in technology of auto-scaling clusters Kubernetes allowed to control the load on sites and prevent failures, adding nodes during the growth of calls.

MCS also provided the company with additional security services, such as Firewall protection against DDoS-, attacks which made it possible to simplify work with contractors and close all Danone needs under one contract.

The Mail.ru Cloud Solutions platform opens the way to the use of tools of a different level, such as Kubernetes. And our expertise helps increase the speed of technology implementation, which gives companies a competitive advantage, "commented Ilya Letunov, head of the Mail.ru Cloud Solutions and Tarantool platform.

When choosing a supplier, we focused on the level of maturity of platform solutions that were supposed to meet both headquarters standards and the tasks of our business. For the Russian division, Danone Kubernetes is a new technology. The experience of the Mail.ru Cloud Solutions team and the development of Kubernetes as a service made the development and administration of our sites noticeably easier, "said Alexander Menshikov, Danone Digital Technology Implementation Manager.