An enhanced EKS cluster
The existing Amazon EKS cluster, managed in Rancher as the orchestration tool and UI.
Case studyTourism Media
Faster, leaner releases for travel content.
How Tourism Media, which serves travel content to global travel brands, got an infrastructure far more resilient, scalable and secure on AWS, with deployments 80% faster.
- Industry
- Media, travel content
- We built
- One Kubernetes platform
- Runs on
- Amazon EKS
80%
Faster deployments
One pipeline for every service
70%
Lower base compute cost
EC2 Spot Instances
2x
Return on investment
Within six months
The challenge
Three ways to deploy, none consistent.
Tourism Media’s microservices were built in different frameworks and deployed three ways: Elastic Beanstalk scripts, Terraform and Kubernetes YAML. With no CI/CD across them, versions were updated by hand and not reliably tested in staging, and spare CPU and memory went unused while full price was paid.
We achieved our ROI in just a few months, while reducing deployment time.
Matt Cassidy
CEO, Tourism Media
What we built
One Kubernetes platform, one pipeline.
Assembly enhanced Tourism Media’s existing Amazon EKS cluster and gave every service the same way to ship, from staging to production.
What we delivered
Helm templates
Helm templates deploy the stack the same way across staging and production.
A pipeline template
Deployments run automatically from registered code repositories.
Spot Instances
Major microservices moved from On-Demand to EC2 Spot Instances.
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Toolchain
Built with
Rancher manages the cluster, Helm packages each release and Papertrail collects the logs.
- Rancher
- Helm
- Papertrail
Powered by AWS
Every service ships the same way.
- Shipped from the repo. A pipeline template deploys each registered repository automatically.
- Released with Helm. Helm templates roll the stack out to staging, then production.
- Run on Spot. Microservices run on Amazon EKS with EC2 Spot Instances, at a fraction of On-Demand cost.
- Data close by. Amazon ElastiCache for caching, Amazon RDS for databases and Amazon S3 for objects.
High-level architecture
Tourism Media on AWS
Key results
Resilient, scalable and consistent.
Speed
80%
Faster deployments
One pipeline and Helm templates replaced three inconsistent ways to deploy.
Cost
70%
Lower base compute cost
Moving major microservices to Spot Instances cut the base EC2 cost.
Operations
One
DevOps process
Consistent scaling and the same process across every environment.
Our certified expertise
AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner and Well-Architected Partner Program. All 12 current AWS Certifications are held by our team.