Mr Yum: building and maintaining Kubernetes on AWS

A cloud platform for digital hospitality

Mr Yum provided web-based digital menus and table ordering for hospitality venues. CloudHero’s engagement focused on the infrastructure supporting that product: a large Kubernetes cluster running on AWS.

For a web-based ordering product, the application is part of the customer’s interaction with a venue. The platform underneath it has to bring application workloads, data services and delivery tooling together. CloudHero worked on that infrastructure layer.

Building the cluster and maintaining it

CloudHero’s work included both building the Kubernetes cluster and maintaining it. The scope continued into the running environment, where the cluster and its surrounding services needed engineering attention.

The engagement used AWS, Kubernetes and Istio. Terraform and GitLab were part of the recorded infrastructure and engineering toolset. The wider platform included Amazon EKS, RDS, EC2 and S3, alongside CockroachDB, Kinesis and Amazon MSK.

A Kubernetes platform brings these systems into one operating environment, but each retains its own responsibilities. Cluster operations need to be considered alongside databases, storage, traffic and event streams.

Delivery tooling and operational visibility

The recorded stack included Buildkite and Datadog. Delivery tooling connects application changes to the environment where they run; observability helps engineers examine the behaviour of that environment.

CloudHero supplied Kubernetes and AWS engineering across this platform. The engagement demonstrates experience with a substantial application environment whose requirements extend beyond creating a cluster.

A platform engagement that continued into operations

Mr Yum worked with CloudHero to build and maintain its large AWS-hosted Kubernetes cluster. That continuity is the central point of the case: platform construction and ongoing maintenance were part of the same engagement.

For teams evaluating Kubernetes on AWS, the useful starting question is who will operate the platform after it is built. CloudHero can help define that responsibility and discuss the cloud services, tooling and support around it.