Professional Services · Platform Layer
Total-estate platform delivery for AI GPU clouds
OS provisioning to day-2 operations across bare metal, VMs, and containers. We deploy whichever toolchain fits your business model: MaaS, Foreman, BCM, Dell Omnia for provisioning; Ansible, AWX, Ansible Automation Platform, Rundeck for automation; Kubespray, Rancher, OpenShift, or custom CNCF for Kubernetes; KubeVirt, KVM, Proxmox, OpenStack for virtualisation. Vendor-agnostic by design.
Reference stacks
Three form factors, one delivery practice
Workloads land on bare metal, VMs, or containers (or a hybrid of all three). Each mode has its own reference stacks; we deploy the one that fits your team and your procurement.
Kubernetes-native. NVIDIA GPU Operator, batch-aware scheduling, namespace-level multi-tenancy.
Kubespray + custom CNCF
Vanilla upstream. CNCF stack tailored to your ops profile.
What you get
- Maximum portability, no vendor lock-in
- Components picked against your ops profile
- Same K8s you can grow with
Best fit · Cloud-native engineering teams · CNCF-fluent ops
Alternatives · we deploy whichever fits
Rancher (SUSE)
Multi-cluster K8s with a UI on top.
- Multi-cluster management out of the box
- RKE2 hardened K8s distribution
- UI-driven ops for the team
Fit · Multi-cluster fleets · UI-driven ops
Red Hat OpenShift
Vendor-supported K8s with extra batteries.
- Built-in registry, OAuth, RBAC, monitoring
- Single support contract
- Fits regulated / enterprise-Red-Hat shops
Fit · Red Hat-aligned shops · enterprise support
KubeVirt hybrid
VMs and containers on the same K8s cluster.
- Host legacy VM tenants alongside container-native
- One control plane, two workload types
Fit · Mixed workload portfolios · legacy VM tenants
What we deliver
Six surfaces of a production platform
Provisioning, automation, control plane, virtualisation, lifecycle, observability. Every surface delivered as code, signed off against acceptance criteria, handed over with runbooks your team can drive.
OS provisioning + boot
PXE / iPXE boot, hardware enrolment, day-zero image bake, vendor BMC integration. MaaS or Foreman by default. BCM or Dell Omnia where the customer's procurement leads there.
Fleet automation
Configuration as code across every node. Ansible at the core, with a UI layer (AWX, Ansible Automation Platform, Rundeck) where the customer's ops team needs one. Every change reviewable in git.
Kubernetes control plane
Vanilla upstream via Kubespray, vendor-supported via Rancher or OpenShift, or a custom CNCF assembly. GPU Operator and Network Operator deployed against the customer's tenancy model.
Virtualisation
KVM + libvirt when lightweight scripting is the right answer. Proxmox when the ops team wants a UI. OpenStack when the customer is running a full IaaS. KubeVirt when VMs and containers need to share a control plane.
Patching, scheduling, lifecycle
OS patching against your agreed cadence (monthly / quarterly / continuous), scheduled maintenance windows, kernel and firmware updates, vendor security advisories triaged before they hit the on-call.
Multi-tenancy, metering, observability
Workspace and RBAC model, network-policy isolation, GPU partitioning where the workload allows, per-tenant metering for chargeback, observability into your existing stack (Prometheus / Grafana / Loki, Datadog, or an in-house tool).
What you receive
Eight named exit artefacts
Every engagement closes with concrete, version-controlled artefacts your team can act on the day after we leave. No deck. No “we will send the runbook next week”.
Where day-two is your team's, the as-code repo and the runbooks are the handover. Where day-two is ours, the same artefacts back the SLA.
- Logical and physical platform design aligned to your form-factor choice
- Provisioning toolchain as-code (MaaS / Foreman / BCM / Omnia configs under git)
- Ansible playbook set covering install, day-2, and disaster-recovery paths
- Kubernetes manifests + GitOps repo (when containers are in scope)
- Multi-tenancy policy doc (workspaces, RBAC, network policy, quotas)
- Patching SLA + maintenance-window calendar
- Observability runbook (dashboards, alerts, paging integration)
- Post-cutover acceptance test record signed off on the cutover call
Engagement shapes
Three ways we can work together
Yobitel-led when you need delivery speed. Collaborative when your team wants outside acceleration. Advisory when you want a second opinion before procurement.
Yobitel-led
We own the platform end-to-end
Full platform design, build, on-site validation, and optional day-2 managed operations handover. Best when your team is light on platform engineering or you want delivery on a fixed milestone.
Best fit · Light in-house platform capacity · production timeline pressure
Collaborative
We build with your team
Joint architecture reviews, paired implementation, focused workshops on the trickier surfaces (multi-tenant K8s, RBAC, patching automation, scheduler tuning). Your team executes the build; we sign off the design and join the cutover.
Best fit · Strong platform team · wants outside review + acceleration
Advisory
Time-boxed review
Fixed-window engagement to review a platform design you have already drafted. We spot risk, suggest a focused set of changes, deliver a written report.
Best fit · Design already complete · want a second opinion before procurement
From the field
Writeups from the platform practice
Short reads on the choices that decide whether an AI GPU platform holds up in production. Written by the engineers who design and operate these clusters.
Coming next
Choosing a Kubernetes flavour for an AI GPU cloud
Coming next
MaaS vs BCM vs Omnia: pick the provisioning toolchain
Form factors covered
Bare metal · VMs · Containers
Toolchains we deploy
MaaS · Foreman · BCM · Omnia · Ansible · Kubespray · Rancher · OpenShift · KubeVirt · KVM · Proxmox · OpenStack
Sovereignty perimeters
NCSC · GDPR · FedRAMP · MeitY · any framework
Tell us how your tenants will land.
The conversation takes about four minutes. Three short steps on the questionnaire (technical, strategic, functional), then your details. Our platform practice lead replies inside one working day with a fitted reference stack and a first-cut bill of materials.
Yobitel is UK-headquartered with engagement teams that deliver into any sovereignty perimeter: NCSC / G-Cloud, EU GDPR, US FedRAMP-equivalent, India MeitY / DPDP, and beyond. No vendor lock-in built into the build.