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Zhenkunxing improves emergency supply chain management capability based on cloud native efficiency

Zhenkun Bank introduced Alibaba Cloud Service Grid ASM to build an intelligent digital supply chain solution. Based on the operation and maintenance free, easy upgrade, and rich product support capabilities provided by ASM, the production and research team can enjoy the value brought by the Service Mesh in a centralized manner, while avoiding the high maintenance update iteration and exception troubleshooting costs, and solving core issues such as service load balancing, link tracking, and unified traffic management.

Customer introduction

Zhenkunxing Industrial Supermarket (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Zhenkunxing"), established in 1996, is a one-stop industrial supplies service platform serving the industrial field and manufacturing industry. Zhenkun has 32 product lines and more than 5 million kinds of auxiliary materials and consumables (MRO) used in factories. Through industrial network collaboration, nationwide intelligent supply chain and digital procurement platform, the online platform of Zhenkunxing Industrial Supermarket has more than 8000 suppliers and well-known partners at home and abroad, as well as more than 20000 advanced manufacturing enterprises.

Business challenges

Business stability and security issues are prominent. The current business system often has problems such as unstable release and manual intervention during deployment, which leads to inefficiency, misoperation, and inability to upgrade stably. At the same time, online business needs a perfect security scheme to ensure the security of the gateway and internal calls.

The cost of application maintenance and exception troubleshooting is high. With the rapid development of business, the cost of application update iteration maintenance and exception problem troubleshooting has risen sharply, and the pain points of service load balancing, link tracking and unified traffic management have gradually expanded.

Alibaba Cloud solutions
Build intelligent digital supply chain

Alibaba Cloud Service Grid ASM is introduced to build an intelligent digital supply chain solution. Based on the operation and maintenance free, easy upgrade, and rich product support capabilities provided by ASM, the production and research team can enjoy the value brought by the Service Mesh in a centralized manner, while avoiding the high maintenance update iteration and exception troubleshooting costs, and solving core issues such as service load balancing, link tracking, and unified traffic management.

Improved stability : The technology base adopts an out of the box ASM service grid instance with high availability, operation and maintenance free, and built-in security best practices, so that developers can focus more on business applications rather than infrastructure operation and maintenance. Stable service grid capability can be obtained without complex configuration. Detach the service grid components from the cluster, and upgrade the service grid components without affecting the cluster. Decouple the life cycle management of grid instances and Kubernetes clusters, making the service run more stable and saving operation and maintenance costs.

Increased security and availability : Ensure the security and high availability of services through the ASM system, easily enable SDS, provide HTTPS security support for the service gateway, and dynamically load certificates, thus improving the security of the service gateway. It supports gradual implementation of mTLS authentication, and provides easy to use RBAC functions.

Greatly simplify refined application traffic management strategy and grayscale publishing : ASM provides refined traffic routing strategies to help businesses implement DevOps scenarios such as grayscale publishing, fusing, and fault injection. ASM greatly simplifies the grid architecture upgrade of legacy systems, and supports extreme scenarios of some old systems, such as super long header requests (about 40-60K) and super long body requests (about 2-10M).

Business Value

Through the business cloud native transformation, containerization and gridding have brought higher stability to the business, and the defect density has decreased by 60%, The continuous construction of DevOps platform also helped to improve the R&D efficiency by 20% and the delivery speed by 200%.

AliCloud products used
Container service Kubernetes version ACK Service Grid ASM
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