CS-Cart is the developer of a scalable and secure eCommerce platform for SMBs and enterprises. It's a complete solution for fast launch and continued growth of online stores and marketplaces from almost every niche of business. ASAP Lab is an official infrastructure and security partner of CS-Cart for many years. This time CS-Cart made a request to prepare infrastructure for load testing of their new product CS-Cart Enterprise implemented on Laravel. The new product is intended for enterprise-level customers with a large number of products and orders, and therefore its infrastructure must include separate groups of servers for MySQL and Redis databases, as well as auto scalable servers for PHP and ElasticSearch/OpenSearch.

After the project analysis we chose Kubernetes as the basis for the entire solution. We designed the infrastructure that covered all project scope from automatic scaling of resources by adding additional servers at load increasing to consequent automatic deduction of resources when the load drops. Such a scaling solution provides significant budget savings. Additionally, during the load tests we implemented the caching process on the Varnish server side.