Case Study: Zalando achieves faster, scalable cloud-native development with Cloud Native Computing Foundation Kubernetes

Cloud native technologies power radical agility at Europe’s leading online fashion platform

Zalando, a leading European online fashion platform, faced challenges in scaling its infrastructure to support rapid business growth and new services. Their on-premise data centers and initial AWS setup created operational overhead and bottlenecks for their autonomous engineering teams, hindering agility. This led them to partner with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and adopt Kubernetes.

By implementing the Cloud Native Computing Foundation's Kubernetes for container orchestration on AWS, Zalando achieved radical agility. The solution enabled over 3,000 weekly production deployments, reduced infrastructure wait times from minutes to seconds, and empowered engineering teams with greater autonomy. A team of just nine now manages over 140 clusters, providing a scalable and reliable foundation for the company's continued expansion.

Zalando

Henning Jacobs

Head of Developer Productivity