How Scanmetrix Achieved 99% Faster Customer Deployments with vCluster

“vCluster allowed us to cut setup times drastically and save big on infrastructure, enabling us to scale effortlessly and provide a reliable experience to our clients.”

Jack Hull
IT Executive @ Scanmetrix
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Without vCluster

3 Large Physical Kubernetes Clusters for Production

Before adopting vCluster, Scanmetrix relied on separate physical clusters to support its growing real estate customer base. The company’s complex client requirements demanded high levels of customization, which led to scalability and downtime challenges as they manually configured deployments for each customer.

Jack Hull explained the limitations: “Our deployment processes were heavily manual and time-intensive, leading to inconsistent uptime and complex resource management issues. As we scaled, these challenges only grew, driving up costs and consuming valuable engineering time.”

Challenges

  • Long customer deployment times, with each setup taking 45-60 minutes
  • Difficulty scaling with individualized customer needs
  • High operational costs due to resource over-provisioning and idle infrastructure
  • Frequent downtime impacting customer experience
With vCluster

3 Physical Kubernetes Clusters Supporting 25+ Virtual Clusters

Since implementing vCluster, Scanmetrix shifted to a more efficient, multi-tenant model that enables them to isolate customer workloads within virtual clusters on a shared physical infrastructure. This setup not only simplified the provisioning process, reducing setup times to under a minute, but also allowed for cost savings by using resources more flexibly and efficiently.

With vCluster, Scanmetrix can meet each client’s customization needs without compromising security or performance. The ability to utilize vCluster’s automated deployment templates and integrate Argo CD for CI/CD has empowered the team to handle new client onboarding seamlessly.

Advantages

  • Automated and rapid deployment with templates, reducing setup time to 1 minute
  • Cost-effective resource allocation with auto-sleep for inactive clusters
  • Higher uptime, improved from 97-98.5% to 99.99%
  • Isolation and security enhancements for custom, client-specific environments
Why vCluster

Flexible, Scalable Kubernetes Management for Complex Customer Needs

vCluster provided Scanmetrix the ability to streamline operations while meeting the unique customization requirements of each client. The centralized control with vCluster’s UI allowed the team to monitor, provision, and manage clusters easily. Jack Hull described the impact: “With vCluster, we’ve eliminated the tedious manual deployment processes, giving us a reliable and scalable solution that supports our complex customer needs. Our team now has the flexibility to focus on application improvements rather than infrastructure bottlenecks.”

vCluster’s robust support and automated tools enabled Scanmetrix to scale cost-effectively and achieve higher levels of uptime for their customers. With vCluster’s solution, Scanmetrix is now equipped to handle ongoing growth with ease, making them better prepared for future scaling while maintaining reliable service for their customers.

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