Case Study: Buffer speeds deployments and scaling with Kubernetes from CNCF

Buffer Making deployments easy for a small, distributed team

Buffer, a company offering social media management tools, faced a challenge scaling its monolithic PHP application with a small, distributed team spanning a dozen time zones. Their infrastructure on Amazon Web Services' Elastic Beanstalk was inflexible, creating long feedback cycles and deployment bottlenecks. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation's Kubernetes provided a solution for orchestrating their new Docker-based containerized infrastructure.

By implementing the Cloud Native Computing Foundation's Kubernetes, Buffer achieved a liquid infrastructure where developers could easily deploy and scale applications. The results included dramatically faster deployment cycles, the ability to perform canary releases to reduce risk, and horizontal scaling with a single command. This empowered their remote team, with one proof-of-concept application being deployed within an hour of first trying Kubernetes.

Buffer

Dan Farrelly

Architect