AWS ECS to AWS EKS migration

Overview

A leading software development company was using a container-based infrastructure deployed with Gitlab-CI in Amazon ECS and CloudWatch for logs and monitoring. In order to improve their processes and simplify their deployment, they decided to migrate their entire infrastructure to Kubernetes.

Challenges

Complex Infrastructure

• The existing setup included a self-hosted Gitlab instance and various tools, which had to be migrated to Kubernetes.

Seamless Transition

• The migration had to ensure a seamless transition with minimal downtime.

Efficiency and Scalability

• The new setup had to be efficient, secure, and easily scalable to accommodate the company’s future growth.

Results

Improved deployment process

• With Kubernetes and Argo CD, deployments were streamlined and easy to manage.

Enhanced monitoring and logging

• The Prometheus + Grafana and ELK stack provided better insights into the system’s performance and health.

Scalability

• The use of Cluster-API and EKS enabled the company to scale its infrastructure effortlessly as per their needs.

Reduced downtime

• The new setup allowed for seamless migration with minimal downtime, ensuring business continuity.

Efficient resource utilization

• Kubernetes’ robust resource management capabilities optimized the company’s infrastructure.

Conclusion

The successful migration to Kubernetes has provided the company with a more efficient, secure, and scalable infrastructure. They can now focus on their core business while staying ahead in the competitive software development industry.