Domino's Pizza opened its first Turkish store, in 1996 in Ulus, Istanbul; today the company is the leading brand of the pizza industry in Turkey with 530 stores in 69 provinces across Turkey, mainly in Istanbul, Izmir, Ankara, and Bursa. Having opened its 10,000th store in the world in Turkey, Domino's Pizza is the largest pizza delivery chain in Turkey and the world. Domino's Pizza today operates more than 14 thousand stores in 85 countries worldwide.

Domino's Pizza Turkey, has pioneered the pizza industry by introducing "home delivery" as a major innovation in the industry.

In 2017, Domino's Pizza consolidated its Turkey, Russia, Georgia, and Azerbaijan operations under "DP Eurasia", and started trading on the London Stock Exchange; which represents the first enterprise in history to be born in Turkey, growing up with Turkish employees and franchisees and entered the premium list of London Stock Exchange. Today, DP Eurasia continues to deliver happiness to its customers with 643 chain stores in 4 countries.

Need

The needs of the dominos.com.tr application running on Azure App Service included migration to a modern cloud architecture, packaging its dependencies with the application independently from the environment, quick and automatic scaling up during peak hours, and managing multiple modules and applications from a single point.

Solution

As part of the Azure Application Modernization project, KoçSistem and Microsoft ensured that applications running on App Services were refactored to Azure Kubernetes Services environment without interruption. Application load running on App Services was gradually migrated to AKS. The two systems had to use the same database and cache structures to maintain the consistency of their data while routing application traffic to the new infrastructure. To do this, global peering was configured between the two infrastructures. Prometheus, Grafana and Alert Manager were installed to monitor systems and applications in the Azure environment. In addition, the installation and configurations for the New Relic product were completed.

Benefit and Result

• Dominos.com.tr application running on App Services was migrated on AKS through an uninterrupted migration process.
• Azure costs were reduced as the applications started to run on the AKS infrastructure.
• All application modules and additional applications can be managed from a single point via Azure Kubernetes Service.
• Applications were enabled to run uninterruptedly even under extreme load, with application-based and node-based scaling rules.
• Applications started to run with container infrastructure in line with modern cloud architecture.