Case Studies

CNCF end users are telling their stories to help elevate technical conversations to business objectives and challenges.

Read how our end users have leveraged cloud native technologies and CNCF projects to help their organizations.

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OpenAI

OpenAI


50% reduction in Fluent Bit CPU utilization

November 12, 2025

How OpenAI Reduced Fluent Bit CPU Usage by 50% and Freed 30,000 Cores

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ECCO

ECCO


50% reduction in networking and storage costs

June 18, 2025

Transforming Networking with Cilium at Ecco

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Michelin

Michelin


-44% Reduction in Platform Costs

June 12, 2025

Michelin retools to open source Kubernetes saving time and money

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G Data CyberDefense

G Data CyberDefense


1500+ ArgoCD applications

April 12, 2024

Migrating to Cilium for Better Networking, Visibility and Security

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Ascend

Ascend


256X Reduced IPs

March 2, 2023

How Ascend leverages Cilium as a networking layer

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Datadog

Datadog


10+ Trillion Data points every day

October 11, 2022

How Datadog uses Cilium & eBPF to power their data plane

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Lunar

Lunar


40 Smooth production releases per day

September 30, 2022

How Kubernetes and Linkerd became Lunar's multi-cloud communication backbone

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Finleap Connect

Finleap Connect


5 Months Implemented mTLS across all services in clusters for code to comply with European PSD2

June 7, 2022

Operating multiple high-density bare-metal clusters in a highly regulated industry

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Salt Security

Salt Security


10X Increased traffic without issues

February 1, 2022

Improving platform efficiency, reliability, performance in one week with Linkerd

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Zambon

Zambon


55% Reduction in website set-up costs

November 2, 2021

How Healthcare Company Zambon took its website cloud native

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Nubank

Nubank


700 Deployments weekly

July 10, 2020

How Kubernetes empowered Nubank engineers to deploy 700 times a week

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Mux

Mux


90 Microservices

June 5, 2020

How cloud native technology helps Mux simplify online video streaming

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U.S. Department of Defense

U.S. Department of Defense


100+ Years of time saved

May 5, 2020

With Kubernetes, the U.S. Department of Defense is enabling DevSecOps on F-16s and battleships

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STL

STL


70% Faster deliveries

April 17, 2020

How cloud native is enabling STL to ‘build once and run anywhere’ to supply telecom operators worldwide

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Babylon

Babylon


1600 CPU, 3.2 TB RAM Compute needed for AI experiments

April 8, 2020

How cloud native is enabling Babylon’s medical AI innovations

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AlphaSense

AlphaSense


99.9% SLA achieved

November 1, 2019

AlphaSense: A hot AI startup relies on Kubernetes to support its exponential growth

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DENSO

DENSO


September 30, 2019

How DENSO is fueling development on the vehicle edge with Kubernetes

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T-Mobile

T-Mobile


5s Database deployment

September 6, 2019

How T-Mobile is leveraging Kubernetes to handle iPhone-launch scale

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Workiva

Workiva


95% Reduction in response time

August 23, 2018

Workiva: Using OpenTracing to help pinpoint the bottlenecks

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Sling TV

Sling TV


99% Reduction in onboarding time

August 7, 2018

Sling TV: Marrying Kubernetes and AI to enable proper web scale

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