Case Study: H-E-B achieves secure, scalable microservices with Buoyant Linkerd

How H-E-B Curbside Adopted Linkerd During a Pandemic

H-E-B turned to Buoyant as the H-E-B Digital Fulfillment team worked to expand curbside and delivery capabilities during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. As demand surged and the company continued migrating workloads to Kubernetes, the team needed a way to accelerate new service delivery while maintaining confidence in the reliability and health of its fulfillment systems.

Buoyant’s Linkerd service mesh was adopted to secure, scale, and monitor H-E-B’s microservices applications, with Linkerd metrics helping the team validate rollouts to curbside locations. The result was a smoother path to production for new services, stronger operational visibility, and a successful proof of concept that the H-E-B team said “worked a little too well,” encouraging them to move forward with confidence.

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Justin Turner

HEB