Case Study: Plaid achieves hundreds of daily deployments and faster releases with CNCF projects like Argo Rollouts and Linkerd

Hundreds of deployments every day without tears

Plaid, a financial services company, faced a challenge with a slow and cumbersome deployment process that discouraged frequent releases and led to stale services and error-prone rollouts. To overcome this, they worked with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation ecosystem, utilizing technologies like Argo Rollouts and Linkerd.

The solution implemented with Cloud Native Computing Foundation technologies involved building a system for automated canary deployments and health checks using Argo Rollouts, Linkerd, and Nginx. This resulted in a massive improvement, allowing Plaid to perform hundreds of releases per day, reduce the merge-to-production time to under 30 minutes, and prevent significant downtime.

Plaid

Mark Robinson

Infrastructure Engineer