Case Study: Adidas accelerates releases and scales Kubernetes adoption with Cloud Native Computing Foundation

Staying true to its culture, adidas got 40% of its most impactful systems running on Kubernetes in a year

Adidas faced significant internal challenges with developer velocity and infrastructure access, despite being satisfied with their core software technology. Their engineers were hindered by a slow and bureaucratic process, where obtaining a simple development VM could take anywhere from half an hour to a full week. To address this, they partnered with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation ecosystem, implementing a cloud native platform built on Kubernetes and Prometheus.

The solution implemented with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation's technologies resulted in dramatic improvements. Adidas achieved a 50% reduction in e-commerce site load time and increased release frequency from every 4-6 weeks to 3-4 times per day. Within six months, their entire e-commerce site was running on the new platform. The vendor's solutions enabled Adidas to scale to 4,000 pods, 200 nodes, and 80,000 builds per month, with 40% of their most critical systems now running on the cloud native infrastructure.

Adidas

Fernando Cornago

Senior Director of Platform Engineering