Cometrica moved its services to cloud infrastructure Mail.ru Cloud Solutions

2020: Transfer services to Mail.Ru Cloud

The developer of IT solutions for the smart city and digital business "Cometric" moved its services to the cloud infrastructure of Mail.ru Cloud Solutions (MCS). This helped the company accelerate the creation and deployment of applications, as well as ensure fault tolerance by automatically scaling resources on Kubernetes. This became known on September 30, 2020.

Cometrica creates IT products for business and government agencies, provides their development, implementation and support. In most cases, at the start of development, it is difficult to estimate the scale of the required resources, so the company preferred the cloud model with payment only for the used capacity and automatic scaling functions.

Most Cometrics projects are creating a solution from scratch, its further operation and support. The number of virtual machines started for this is in the hundreds. In addition, the organization uses the container tools to pass on and update the applications that are running in customers. To deploy testing and service development environments and manage multiple containers, the company needed a reliable cloud infrastructure with a high level of support and orchestration solutions.

Migration MCS Cloud to allowed Cometric to deploy its own development and infrastructure of customer projects on the cloud platform. To orchestrate containers and automatically distribute load, the company uses Kubernetes-as-a-Service (KaaS), a service. Mail.ru Cloud Containers This helped standardize processes and accelerate development by 7 times through the introduction of rapid delivery channels for ON servers various projects. Automatic scaling has reduced costs by redistributing capacity during periods of downturns and activity peaks. Also, thanks to the solution, KaaS managed to remove part of the administrative burden from DevOps the specialists - Mail.ru Cloud Solutions experts provide full support for the service. In addition, as a result of the transition to the cloud, Cometrica gained access to the S3 object store, which hosts copies of reserve virtual machines and. databases

The company plans to expand the list of cloud services used to develop other areas of business, such as augmented reality (AR) and machine learning.

{{quote 'Collaboration with MCS, during which our services were moved to the cloud, significantly reduced costs thanks to the automatic scaling of Kubernetes and standardized most of the key business processes. We will be happy to strengthen cooperation by connecting other cloud services that meet business objectives, "says Anton Kuznetsov, head of the system engineers group, Kometrika. }}

The MCS cloud platform has become a reliable foundation for the development of IT products in the field of smart city and digital state projects. Our PaaS solutions helped Kometrika accelerate the creation and launch of products on the market, "said Ilya Letunov, head of Mail.ru Cloud Solutions and Tarantool.