Case Study: Bloomberg achieves faster, more efficient cloud-native scaling with Kubernetes from CNCF

Bloomberg An early adopter’s success with Kubernetes at scale

Bloomberg, a global financial data and media company, encountered a significant scaling challenge with its infrastructure. Their existing system of spinning up virtual machines did not provide application development teams with the necessary flexibility and speed, preventing them from scaling rapidly and deploying services uniformly across their massive private network. They wanted a private cloud that was as easy to use as a public cloud.

The solution was provided by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation's project, Kubernetes. Bloomberg adopted the platform to manage its containerized workloads, which allowed for much faster scaling than virtual machines. This implementation by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation resulted in highly productive developers, fewer deployment errors, and dramatically improved hardware utilization, reaching close to 90-95%. The company also benefited from improved service resiliency and automation.

Bloomberg

Steven Bower

Data and Analytics Infrastructure Lead