Case Study: Rakuten scales cloud operations efficiently with Cloud Foundry

What We Learned After Five Years of Cloud Foundry at Rakuten

Rakuten, a Japanese ecommerce and Internet company, ran Cloud Foundry in production for five years to support a large-scale environment of over 5,000 virtual servers. As its platform footprint grew, the team faced the challenge of keeping operations and maintenance efficient while ensuring the platform could scale reliably for users.

Cloud Foundry helped Rakuten’s seven-engineer DevOps team operate one of the world’s largest Cloud Foundry deployments by emphasizing practical lessons around resilience, platform visibility, and community-driven development. The result was a production environment that scaled operations efficiently over five years, with clear guidance from Cloud Foundry on designing for failure, avoiding forks, and making sure the team could see what the platform was doing.

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