Actis Wunderman (Mail.ru Cloud Containers)

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Wunderman Thompson is a digital agency. Russia The company had its own. hosting Ten racks in a special room, (servers Compaq even before this brand bought out), HP three changes of engineers. Then the company realized that it did not want to engage in iron, administer and upgrade it. Dipped in. virtualization Then the main players in the market were virtualizations products. VMware Products of them on several servers that remained - over time, the power density increased, and the iron became less.

With the advent of virtual machine rental services in Russia at an adequate price and with an adequate SLA, the company moved several providers. DataLine, Azure,.NET Core, Docker b finally Kubernetes.

Meanwhile, cloud platforms have appeared with convenient skaling and payment only for consumed resources: Google Cloud, Amazon and the already familiar Azure.

It was expected that everything will work on Kubernetes. But it turned out that the Mail.ru Cloud Solutions (MCS) team offers a suitable virtual infrastructure.

Testing the work of Kubernetes in the MCS cloud began on a pilot project - the website of the advertising agency Wunderman Thompson. The agency's site was moved to the MCS cloud in exactly one day.

The first experience of migration to the MCS cloud was gained, because it took very little time to transfer the client project, taking into account its scale - about three working days.