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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University of Wisconsin–Madison

University of Wisconsin–Madison


25+ Kubernetes clusters managed across research and academic environments

December 9, 2025

University of Wisconsin–Madison enhances multi-cluster visibility and control with Cilium

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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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ESnet (Energy Sciences Network)

ESnet (Energy Sciences Network)


100s of VM deployments consolidated into 2 multi-tenant clusters

October 30, 2025

Transforming Scientific Computing Infrastructure for IPv6 with Cilium at ESnet

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Nutanix

Nutanix


Simplified deployment and Day 2 operations

September 18, 2025

Refactoring Nutanix Kubernetes Platform for a Consistent Experience with Cilium

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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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Mezmo

Mezmo


Petabytes of data processed monthly

September 17, 2024

How Mezmo secures petabytes of data monthly with Linkerd

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Infosys insurance client

Infosys insurance client


40% reduction in developer onboarding time

August 27, 2024

How an Infosys insurance client increased developer productivity using Backstage

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Infosys client

Infosys client


60% Savings On TCO from mainframe decommissioning

July 26, 2024

Re-hosting a mainframe to Azure Cloud using Kubernetes and KEDA

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IBM

IBM


60% reduction in ML model training time

May 16, 2024

How IBM watsonx Assistant uses Knative Eventing to train machine learning models

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WS02

WS02


60+ Trillion transactions/year

April 12, 2024

Implementing Zero Trust Security with Cilium

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Ericom

Ericom


1 day Integrating to local data centers

September 9, 2022

Deploying in Any Location with Kubernetes

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PNC Bank

PNC Bank


20,000 code repos kept compliant

June 13, 2022

How PNC Bank automated software supply chain compliance with TriggerMesh.

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InfluxData

InfluxData


9400 production pods

October 1, 2021

InfluxData doubles down on developer and customer happiness with Kubernetes deployment model

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Seagate

Seagate


3 million Hi-res images analyzed each day

August 30, 2021

How Seagate runs Real-time Analytics at the Edge

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PayIt

PayIt


October 20, 2020

For PayIt, cloud native is a ‘competitive advantage’ for getting government services online

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Verizon Media

Verizon Media


2 million Requests per second

September 30, 2020

With an eye toward standardization and security for its media brands, Verizon Media turned to cloud native

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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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Frame.io

Frame.io


240mil Events processed per day

February 6, 2020

How Frame.io built a full security program around its video cloud with Falco

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Zendesk

Zendesk


70% Applications now on Kubernetes

January 13, 2020

Zendesk and the art of microservice maintenance

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