LifeMiles Cuts Infrastructure Spend by 50% and Doubles Available Resources with Kubernetes
The case study describes how LifeMiles migrated its legacy monolithic system to AWS and adopted Kubernetes for container orchestration, achieving a 50% reduction in infrastructure costs, a three‑fold increase in deployment frequency, and a doubling of usable resources while dramatically shortening time‑to‑market.
LifeMiles, one of the fastest‑growing loyalty programs in Latin America, faced a rigid monolithic architecture that required a full server stack for each new service, leading to long release cycles and limited flexibility.
To separate LifeMiles from its parent company’s systems, the team moved from an on‑premises data center to Amazon Web Services and chose Kubernetes for orchestration, enabling micro‑services, containerization, and continuous delivery.
Initial pilots on a small Kubernetes cluster proved successful, and by July 2017 the production environment was serving the ticket‑booking engine and a new promotional product. The team reported that Kubernetes became a key enabler for their new continuous‑delivery pipeline.
Deployments that previously took weeks for approval and hours or days to execute now finish in minutes, with automated testing and validation integrated into the pipeline. Deployment density increased from 7 to 18 per instance, and the ability to spin up non‑production environments using labels allowed better resource utilization and lower costs.
“Previously, updating infrastructure or system capabilities required server upgrades; now we rely on Kubernetes to handle promotions and manage load, enabling daily releases and dramatically shortening time‑to‑market.” — René Cuchillas, Cloud and Infrastructure Administrator, LifeMiles
The migration to the public cloud and Kubernetes reduced infrastructure spend by 50% and doubled available resources, according to infrastructure manager Francisco Maravilla. The team also highlighted reduced staffing needs for infrastructure management and increased flexibility for scaling promotions.
Today, beyond the ticket‑booking engine, LifeMiles’s website, partner redemption back‑ends, and all new internal developments run on Kubernetes, leveraging additional projects such as Prometheus and CoreDNS, with plans to extend the stack as requirements evolve.
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