Case Study: Ocado achieves faster deployments and lower hardware costs with CNCF Kubernetes

Ocado Running grocery warehouses with a cloud native platform

Ocado Group, a major UK online grocery retailer, faced a challenge as its Ocado Smart Platform grew. Their previous container scheduler, fleet, was going end-of-life, and they needed a more complete and unified platform to manage their disparate infrastructure services efficiently on their private cloud.

By adopting Kubernetes from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, Ocado achieved a significant modernization of its platform. This migration resulted in development cycles shortening from over a month to under a week and increased deployment frequency from two to dozens per week. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation's technology also provided finer-grained resource control, leading to hardware cost savings of 15-25% and the consolidation of ten clusters into one.

Ocado Group

Mike Bryant,

Platform Engineer