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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The Top End User winner is announced once per year at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America and is selected from Case Studies, Video Spotlights, Reference Architectures, and similar content contributed by end users. To be eligible for this year’s consideration, the contribution must have been received by Friday, September 26, 2025.
Found 169 case studies
SF Technology
Up to 57% GPU Savings for production and test clusters
Effective GPU: A Heterogeneous AI Virtualization Pooling solution by SF technology built on top of HAMi
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Nutanix
Simplified deployment and Day 2 operations
Refactoring Nutanix Kubernetes Platform for a Consistent Experience with Cilium
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Millennium bcp
70% reduction in DNS-related incident response times
Millennium bcp Enhances Digital Banking Resilience with k8gb
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Infosys Ltd. Client
50% Reduction in data management operational costs
How Infosys Optimized Telecom Data Management for a European Operator Using Kubernetes and OPA
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Prep EDU
90% of GPU infra optimized using HAMi
Enabling Efficient GPU Orchestration for AI Inference at PREP EDU
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BRZ
Near zero downtime for deployments through GitOps
BRZ migrated the Austrian Business Service Portal with 2M+ Users to Keycloak
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ECCO
50% reduction in networking and storage costs
Transforming Networking with Cilium at Ecco
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Michelin
-44% Reduction in Platform Costs
Michelin retools to open source Kubernetes saving time and money
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China Mobile
32.69% reduction in annual incidents
China Mobile Communications Group LTD uses ChaosBlade to dramatically improve troubleshooting and recovery
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DataGalaxy
~25 million Messages processed monthly
Simplifying Complexity: Using Dapr to Build a More Maintainable Software Ecosystem
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LY Corporation
600 application projects supported by 1 multi-tenant cluster
How LY Corporation is leveraging Kubernetes as the foundation of its large-scale internal PaaS
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OpenTalk
Six months initial development time saved
OpenTalk achieves versatile and compliant user authentication with Keycloak
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Infosys Ltd. Client
$5 million USD cost savings/year/customer
Boosting Developer Efficiency with Backstage.io
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Hitachi Ltd.
One step configuration
Hitachi Ltd. used Keycloak to make financial grade security easier
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7 Million + HTTP Requests/Hour
Streamlining Global Logistics with Cilium at DB Schenker
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Preferred Networks
1500 + GPUs
How Preferred Networks used K8s for a more user-friendly AI/ML platform
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Autodesk
FedRamp ATO Achieved
How Autodesk achieved FedRAMP compliance with Witness & Archivista
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440 metric tons reduced carbon emissions
Doubling daily e-commerce through OMS modernization with K8s
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QingCloud
5 million + Downloads of KubeSphere
QingCloud boosted performance and networking with Cilium
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loveholidays
Trillions hotel/flight combinations processed per day
Reducing MTTD and increasing observability with Linkerd at loveholidays
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