Case Study: BlaBlaCar speeds up service deployment and improves availability with CNCF cloud native tools

BlaBlaCar Turning to containerization to support millions of rideshares

BlaBlaCar, the world's largest long-distance carpooling community, was experiencing exponential growth and needed its infrastructure to scale efficiently without hiring more staff to manage servers. Their challenge was to improve deployment times and capacity planning while remaining on their own bare metal servers. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation's ecosystem, including Kubernetes and Prometheus, provided the solution.

By implementing a containerization strategy using the Cloud Native Computing Foundation's technologies, BlaBlaCar drastically reduced the time to create a new service from days to minutes. This resulted in massive time savings for developers, better data center capacity planning, and improved overall website availability and resilience for their 40 million users.

BlaBlaCar

Simon Lallemand

Infrastructure Engineer