Case Study: Ancestry Achieves Faster Deployments with Kubernetes

Digging Into the Past With New Technology

Ancestry, an online services company based in Lehi, Utah, was looking to improve how it adopted new technology and speed up deployment for development teams. Using Kubernetes, the company aimed to modernize its application delivery approach and build internal support among engineers for containerization.

Kubernetes was used to deploy Ancestry’s hint system, and the rollout went smoothly in early 2016. The result was a major improvement in deployment speed, cutting release time from about 50 minutes to just 2 to 5 minutes, while also boosting team confidence and momentum for broader Kubernetes adoption.

Ancestry

Paul MacKay

Software Engineer and Architect