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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Michelin

Michelin


0 customer-impacting outages during migration

July 14, 2026

Consolidating on Cilium: How Michelin replaced two CNIs and gained network visibility at scale

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SNOW Corp.

SNOW Corp.


May 5, 2026

Scaling GenAI for 200M users: How SNOW Corp. orchestrates 1000+ GPUs to handle 700% viral traffic spikes

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SNCF

SNCF


March 25, 2026

Reaching for Strategic Autonomy by Building On-Premises Kubernetes with Cluster API and ArgoCD

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Zynga

Zynga


March 2, 2026

Zynga Scales Gaming Infrastructure by Eliminating Networking Bottlenecks with Cilium

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OVHcloud

OVHcloud


1000s production clusters running on OVHcloud's infrastructure

February 25, 2026

Scaling Managed Kubernetes Service with Cilium and eBPF at OVHcloud

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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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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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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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Cybozu

Cybozu


4+ Years Running Cilium in production

October 23, 2025

Delivering High Performance Workflows with Cybozu and Cilium

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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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Michelin

Michelin


-44% Reduction in Platform Costs

June 12, 2025

Michelin retools to open source Kubernetes saving time and money

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DB Schenker

DB Schenker


7 Million + HTTP Requests/Hour

March 7, 2025

Streamlining Global Logistics with Cilium at DB Schenker

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QingCloud

QingCloud


5 million + Downloads of KubeSphere

December 17, 2024

QingCloud boosted performance and networking with Cilium

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SysEleven

SysEleven


200% Through-put improvement

September 17, 2024

SysEleven opted for Cilium to simplify networking, enhance observability

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Alibaba Cloud

Alibaba Cloud


Number One Cloud service provider in APAC

August 12, 2024

Alibaba Cloud turns to Cilium for improved network performance and scalability

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Seznam

Seznam


1 MILLION HTTP requests/second

July 30, 2024

Seznam opts for Cilium to boost performance and reduce costs

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Kakao

Kakao


102.5 Million Monthly active users

July 25, 2024

Kakao improves network performance and lowers costs with Cilium

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Nemlig.com

Nemlig.com


50,000 grocery boxes Delivered daily

June 24, 2024

Boosting performance and security with Cilium

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DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean


637,000 customers in 190 countries

June 24, 2024

Scaling for the future with Cilium

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