Case Study: Bailian Group achieves a massively scalable omni-channel commerce platform with Mirantis OpenStack

Bailian Group launches multi-channel commerce platform using Mirantis OpenStack design and UMCloud managed services

Bailian Group, one of China’s largest retailers with thousands of stores and tens of thousands of employees, needed to transform from brick-and-mortar to omni‑channel commerce to compete with fast-moving e‑commerce rivals. Their legacy IT—hundreds of applications on thousands of bare‑metal servers—suffered low utilization, long provisioning times and high costs, so the company set out to build a flexible, cost‑effective, massively scalable cloud platform to accelerate innovation, speed time‑to‑market and streamline operations.

Working with Mirantis and UMCloud, Bailian deployed an OpenStack‑based IaaS using a 20‑node MVP (Ceph storage, Neutron/OVS networking, KVM, F5 load balancing and StackLight monitoring) that was designed to scale to hundreds of nodes. Early production testing (1,000+ API and 100+ performance scenarios) showed high availability and improved performance, developers moved to CI/CD and DevOps workflows, provisioning and costs were reduced, and the platform quickly expanded toward hundreds of nodes and thousands of VMs with phased plans to scale further and migrate legacy systems.

Bailian Group

Lu Qichuan

Director of IaaS and Cloud Integration Architecture