Solv is a leading Indian B2B marketplace designed to support small and medium businesses (SMBs). The platform offers a one-stop solution for SMBs to access competitive pricing, streamline orders, and access financing options within a user-friendly environment.
Problem Statement
Solv’s growing ecosystem of over 200 microservices led to operational inefficiencies, security vulnerabilities, and inconsistent environments. Manual processes for configuration management, access controls, deployments, and monitoring hindered scalability, highlighting the need for an automated, scalable solution to standardize operations, improve security, and streamline the development pipeline.
Top 3 Wins
Standardization via BuildPiper
Standardized configuration management and various operational practices across multiple environments ensuring secure, consistent, and reliable deployments.
Env. Setup for 150+ Microservices
Leveraging BuildPiper's CLI tool, bpctl, Solv reduced their Quality Engineering environment setup time to just one day for more than 150 microservices, achieving a drastic improvement in efficiency.
DevSecOps Implementation
BuildPiper automated processes like security checks, image validation, and credential scanning. It also integrated Selenium pipelines for test automation, sharing auto-generated reports with users, and enhancing deployment security.
Challenges
Managing 200+ microservices with unique configurations across environments created deployment complexities and errors.
Manual access provisioning to servers introduced delays and security risks.
Lack of real-time monitoring and dashboards slowed issue resolution, hindering progress and productivity.
Absence of ingress version control caused configuration inconsistencies and downtime risks.
Solutions
Automated Deployments
BuildPiper automated the deployment of over 200 microservices, drastically reducing manual efforts and improving release speed. CI/CD pipelines were optimized for error-free, efficient builds.
Self-Service Access Portal
A Jira-integrated portal automated access provisioning to Bastion hosts and databases, streamlining approval processes and removing bottlenecks. Custom Jira fields and webhooks triggered BuildPiper jobs, simplifying access management.
Configuration and Ingress Management
ConfigMaps and ingress settings were version-controlled in Bitbucket, ensuring consistent environments. Changes were deployed through approval-based pull requests, enabling authorized updates and easy rollbacks to reduce configuration drift.
Centralized Dashboards
Real-time monitoring and reporting dashboards provided visibility into environment health, application performance, and deployment status, empowering proactive issue management.
Enhanced Security
Automated Trivy image scanning, credential checks, and image layer validation secured the entire SDLC, ensuring compliance across environments.
JiraOps Integration
JiraOps enabled ticket-based workflow automation, triggering BuildPiper jobs for deployments, enhancing traceability and simplifying processes.
Outcomes
100% Reduction in Manual Access Provisioning Efforts
The self-service portal eliminated manual access provisioning, improving response times and ensuring a secure access management system.
Reduction in Security Threats
Automated and gated security checks within CI/CD pipelines minimized vulnerabilities in production, significantly enhancing Solv's overall security posture.
Consistent Configurations Across Environments
Automated deployments and standardized pipelines minimized configuration drift, resulting in a stable, reliable infrastructure.
Real-Time Monitoring
Centralized dashboards provided real-time insights, enabling proactive problem-solving, optimizing resources, and saving developer time.
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