Case Study: Wink achieves cloud-native, always-on smart home connectivity with Kubernetes

Cloud-Native Infrastructure Keeps Your Smart Home Connected

Wink, a New York–based Internet of Things platform, needed a highly reliable way to keep smart-home devices connected through persistent, real-time communication with the cloud. The company also wanted the flexibility to avoid lock-in, support hybrid cloud and on-premises environments, and simplify security and operations across its infrastructure. Kubernetes was used as part of an open source Kubernetes-Docker-CoreOS Container Linux stack.

With Kubernetes, Wink unified workloads across cloud providers and data centers, gaining portability, easier management, and stronger security by standardizing on one Linux distro and machine image. Kubernetes also helped Wink improve resilience with workload distribution, load balancing, and rapid restart capabilities when containers failed, saving the company time and money while supporting a more robust smart-home platform.

Wink

Kit Klein

Head of Engineering