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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Preferred Networks

Preferred Networks


5 production Kubernetes clusters standardized on a single CNI plugin, spanning on-premises and cloud IaaS environments.

September 11, 2026

Preferred Networks unifies container networking for AI clusters with Cilium

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CETC Cloud

CETC Cloud


15X dev capacity increased from 2 to 30 concurrent dev Pods on the same 8-GPU portable device.

September 8, 2026

CETC Cloud Builds a Heterogeneous GPU Shared Resource Foundation for a Portable Knowledge Base with HAMi

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Cloudchipr Client

Cloudchipr Client


40% cloud cost reduction

July 21, 2026

How a vector database platform cut cloud spend by 40% with Kubernetes, GitOps, and automated FinOps

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Cloudchipr client

Cloudchipr client


45% AWS cloud savings

February 16, 2026

How a Cloudchipr’s client reduced Cloud costs by 45%

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DaoCloud

DaoCloud


> 80% Average GPU utilization after vGPU adoption

December 2, 2025

Building flexible GPU clouds with HAMi at DaoCloud

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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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DataGalaxy

DataGalaxy


~25 million Messages processed monthly

June 6, 2025

Simplifying Complexity: Using Dapr to Build a More Maintainable Software Ecosystem

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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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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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OpenAI

OpenAI


June 25, 2018

OpenAI: Launching and scaling up experiments, made simple

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