With the gradual deepening of informatization, enterprise business operations are increasingly dependent on IT, and the traditional partial, extensive and fragmented IT operation and maintenance management mode can no longer meet the actual needs of safe production. IT operation and maintenance must be transformed to an automated, comprehensive and process-based mode, and an enterprise-level container PaaS platform should be built. IT becomes the strategic requirement of enterprise IT architecture upgrading and digital transformation.
Compared with other industries, the financial industry has higher requirements on the reliability, stability and maturity of technology due to network environment, complex system software, high degree of resource integration, high level of system data security, complex authority management and other reasons.
Outstanding brand in asset management
A large state-owned asset management agency is one of the first nine insurance asset management companies established in China. At present, the assets under management of the company has exceeded 500 billion yuan, the investment performance continues to rank in the forefront of the industry, and gradually developed into a comprehensive asset management institution with the use of insurance funds as the main body, investment banks and third-party wealth management as the two wings. The company always adheres to the investment philosophy of professionalism, value and stability, and provides all-round excellent asset management services for customers inside and outside the group and all over the world.
According to the digital development strategy of the company, the company will, in the future planning cycle, resonate with The Times, build its own digital ecology, and build an outstanding brand in the field of Asset management in China and even the world.
Problems and challenges in the process of digitization
However, the reality is that with the increasing number of IT products, the company still faces a series of problems and challenges in the process of development, operation and project management:
The network environment and system software are complicated. At present, all the system coding work is dominated by the manufacturer, and the coding process control is relatively rough, and the testing standardization and completeness are relatively lacking.
The code version management is more scattered, chaotic, no version control, project integration is difficult, high communication cost.
Most of the system applications are deployed in traditional mode, which is cumbersome, difficult to operate, prone to errors and low efficiency.
System elastic expansion capacity is insufficient, and there is basically no microservice governance capacity. The system coupling degree of each platform currently developed is high.
There is no special image management, and it is directly deployed after the completion of development. Therefore, it is urgent to build an application-oriented automation management platform for the whole life cycle to achieve efficient management of applications.
System data security level is high, authority management is complex;
In order to solve the above problems, the asset management organization and Speed cloud, according to the overall needs of enterprise digital development, using Docker, Kubernetes, ServiceMesh and other application resource management technology, to create an innovative, practical and sustainable development of automatic management platform.
Build a new enterprise-level container PaaS platform
Speed Cloud is one of the earliest container technology manufacturers in China and a benchmark enterprise in the field of container cloud computing. Its business covers container PaaS platform, DevOps, micro-service governance, AIOps and other fields. It has many large enterprises and fortune 500 customers in finance, energy, operators, manufacturing, radio and television, automobile and other fields.
Based on Docker and Kubernetes technology, Speed Cloud creates a new generation of container cloud PaaS platform for enterprises. Through container, microservice, CI/CD and DevOps processes, development, testing, operation and maintenance are closely connected. To accelerate the iteration of business products and functions; Implement a build, run anywhere, and manage each step of application delivery independently.
The PaaS platform construction scheme provided by Speed Cloud for the asset management institution includes the following points:
Unified development operation and maintenance control. Use speed of cloud advanced and mature enterprise products, rethink the working process of the design and development test operations, will be everyday tedious repetitive work to a platform to automate, including source code management, automated build, test automation, continuous integration, continuous deployment, etc., significantly improve the efficiency of the application system development iterations.
Standardize the application system online. Application system development will be in after the completion of rolling upgrade the production environment, and then after they are confirmed by testers eventually test gray released to production environment, on the production environment, the normal operation of old and new version of the online system at the same time all again after a period of time to upgrade to the new version of the system, help customers to launch new products quickly expanding business in time, and reduce risks at the same time.
Efficient operation and maintenance support platform. After the deployment of application system, can realize all-round monitoring of application container, also can realize the monitoring condition monitoring of the underlying computing nodes, can also realize the business flow, the HTTP protocol, such as more fine-grained control, in addition that the application log collection, centralized storage, unified fast retrieval but also greatly reduce the operational work pressure, thoroughly liberated the operations staff, This reduces the complexity and cost of routine O&M.
Enterprise app Stores. The catalog function enables you to package deployed applications and store them in a private enterprise-level application store, enabling one-click application deployment and improving work efficiency.
Intelligent service governance. Based on the Kubernetes core support capacity, to achieve the grayscale release of application services, rolling upgrade, elastic expansion, fault self-healing, service configuration, high availability of services and other governance means, greatly reduce the IT cost of enterprises.
All-round security protection. With the help of the platform’s fine authority management system, each user, department and project are assigned appropriate roles, and combined with the resource quota management, so that each user of the platform can cooperate with each other and perform their own duties without losing control of authority offside. The network isolation function provided by the platform ensures manageable service access at the application service level. From the user level and the application level, double – pronged, jointly build a firm enterprise network security firewall.
Speed of cloud PaaS platform enterprise container with automatic telescopic, high availability and load balancing, system monitoring, rapid development, easy maintenance features, greatly reduce the operational cost, at the same time also have high definition of rights management, project, multiple dimensions, such as user, role, ensure the security of system data, and support online upgrade of service between the new and old versions.
Advanced microservice architecture, large-scale container cluster, complete DevOps tool chain, diversified platform services, and stable infrastructure, speed Cloud’s excellent technical strength provides a strong technical guarantee for the asset management organization to build a new container cluster management platform. At present, Speed Cloud has successfully delivered container cloud PaaS platform and related products for many well-known enterprises such as State Grid corporation of China, ENN group, Daimler Benz, Wasu Media, Platao, etc., with rich practical experience.
Since then, Speed Cloud will continue to improve its own products and services, create high-quality, efficient and highly scalable enterprise container PaaS platform for enterprises, help enterprises build digital ecology, and facilitate the digital transformation of enterprises.