KO TECHNOLOGIES
AWS CLOUD & DEVOPS SERVICES
For Tesco, the UK’s leading grocery retailer, modernizing their digital presence meant securely hosting a new Identity website and an International Grocery website on the AWS cloud. KO Technologies delivered a comprehensive AWS Cloud & DevOps Services solution that focused on building a secure, scalable, and automated container platform. We successfully introduced Tesco’s first container platform in AWS using Terraform and ECS, significantly accelerating their time-to-market for new applications and establishing a robust CI/CD pipeline and automation test capability for rapid, reliable deployments.
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The Client
Tesco Plc is the biggest grocery retailer in the UK, with a turnover of £30 Billion per annum. They embarked on a strategic AWS cloud journey to host their new breed of applications, specifically focusing on an Identity website and a new website for their international grocery customers.
Name
Tesco Plc
Turnover
£30 Billion per annum
Location
United Kingdom
Challenges
- New Application Hosting: The requirement to host a new International Grocery Website and Identity Service on AWS.
- Container Platform Implementation: The application stack was Node.js and Docker, necessitating the creation of Tesco's first container platform within the AWS environment.
- Automation and CI/CD: A need for modern CI/CD pipelines and a comprehensive automation test capability for continuous, high-quality deployments.
Solutions
- AWS Container Platform
Terraform automation was used to create AWS ECS clusters, establishing Tesco’s first container platform in AWS.
- New Application Stack
Implementation of the new application stack infrastructure, network, cloud adoption, and automation.
- CI/CD Pipelines
Introduced Jenkins pipelines to build Docker images for ECR, update task definitions, and create CI/CD pipelines for all application environments.
- Automation Testing
Developed a high-impact Automation Test capability using a Headless testing SDET stack (Selenium, Chrome Driver, Ruby, Cucumber) created in Docker containers for overnight testing of international site settings.
- Secure Connectivity
Established a robust network connection, initially via a site-to-site VPN and later upgraded to a high-bandwidth Direct Connect between AWS and the Tesco DC.
Results
Speed to innovations is vastly reduced by delivering a modern migration to AWS.
Teams collaborate seamlessly with the unified Tools and enhanced Devops Techniques.
Modern scalable infrastructure, rather than static and operational burdened servers.
Enhance Observability with Datadog – increasing service levels and lowering time to identify problems.
Tools Used
- AWS
- ECS
- ECR
- JENKINS
- DOCKER
- TERRAFORM
- SELENIUM
- CHROME
- DRIVER
- RUBY
- CUCUMBER
- DIRECT
- CONNECT
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