50% faster GTM with Argo CD implementation for Klub one of India's largest Revenue Based Financing investor

Klub is a fintech play providing growth financing to high-affinity brands. Klub’s investment platform, which utilizes financial innovation, community engagement, and deep data-driven analytics, provides skin-in-the-game growth capital to entrepreneurs of much-loved brands across sectors.

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Business Challenges:

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• Self healing: Klub did not have self healing capabilities for their containers. Accidental deletion of containers or other Kubernetes resources was a huge risk to their - business.

• Complex application architecture: Klub's applications had a complex architecture, with multiple microservices that needed to be deployed and managed independently.

• Rollback and roll anywhere: Application or configuration rollback was crucial for Klub.

• Drift detection: Klub wanted to have a dashboard to detect configuration drifts.
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To address these challenges, Klub decided to implement Argo CD, an open-source continuous delivery tool.

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Solution:

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• Infrastructure-as-Code: Shellkode adopted Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) practices. Enabling version control and tracking changes to their infrastructure.
• GitOps workflow: Implemented a GitOps workflow using Argo CD. Developers simply had to commit their code changes to Git, and Argo CD would automatically detect the changes and trigger a deployment to the appropriate environment.
• Declarative configuration management: Shellkode used Argo CD's declarative configuration management capabilities. To help them manage their application configurations as code, eliminating the need for manual configuration changes.

Business impact:

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• Faster deployments: With Argo CD, the company was able to automate its deployment process, reducing the time it took to deploy applications from days to minutes.

• Improved quality: Klub was able to ensure consistent deployments across different environments, reducing the risk of errors and improving the quality of their applications.

• Increased visibility: Argo CD provided Klub with greater visibility into their deployment process, enabling them to identify and troubleshoot issues more quickly.

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Overall, Argo CD helped Klub streamline its deployment process, reduce errors, and increase agility. As a result, they were able to bring new features and updates to the market faster, improving their competitive edge and customer satisfaction.

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Tools used:

ArgoCD, ALB ingress controller and GitHub