5ostudios is a development company in Kuwait that works on multiple projects in the Media/Streaming sector. This client has contacted us to help with a solution for a highly scalable streaming infrastructure, to support a project that they were developing.
The main goal was to design and implement a solution to a streaming infrastructure to support up to 100k clients while maintaining the costs as low as possible.
The project was a mobile application for a trivia game that would have streaming at certain times of the day with the questions.
This type of usage is perfect for a public cloud because we could scale the infrastructure during the hours that we have events, and then stop it when there is no broadcast.
MD3’s Solution
We’ve decided to leverage the solution from Hetzner Cloud (www.hetzner.com ) due to their low prices on the cloud offer, and also because their instances come with 10Gb network interfaces and 10TB of egress traffic included in the price.
To deliver the solution to the customer we used a couple of different technologies, such as:
- Hetzner Cloud – Hosting of the streaming infrastructure;
- Terraform – Infrastructure as Code to programmatically start/stop the streaming infrastructure when needed;
- Ansible – Configuration manager for the instances in the Hetzner cloud
- Nimble Streamer – streaming server
Infrastructure diagram
