Case Study: PingCAP boosts Kubernetes productivity and cuts infrastructure costs with CNCF cloud native technologies

PingCAP bets on cloud native for its TiDB database platform

PingCAP, the company behind the open source TiDB database, faced the challenge of deploying and managing its complex distributed database across multiple cloud environments. Their goal was to deliver a consistent and reliable experience for customers using any cloud. To reduce this complexity, they sought a cloud-native orchestration layer, turning to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) ecosystem for a solution.

By leveraging Kubernetes and other CNCF technologies like Prometheus, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation provided the tools for PingCAP to build its TiDB Operator. This solution automated deployment and management, leading to dramatic results: infrastructure costs were reduced by 50%, developer productivity increased by 15%, and launching a new service went from taking two weeks to under 10 minutes.

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Kevin Xu

General Manager of Global Strategy and Operations