Case Study: Cornell Lab of Ornithology achieves scalable, highly available citizen science applications with Mirantis

Cornell Lab of Ornithology delivers bird data at scale with Mirantis, cutting lead times to hours and minutes

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology, a non-profit organization under Cornell University, needed to deliver highly available and scalable citizen science applications to a global user base. Their challenge was to meet these high performance expectations while leveraging their existing on-premises university infrastructure economically and without creating an operations bottleneck for developers. They partnered with vendor Mirantis to find a solution.

Mirantis implemented an on-premises private cloud solution using Mirantis Kubernetes Engine, Mirantis Container Runtime, and Mirantis Secure Registry. This provided the Lab with a flexible, performant environment that eliminated configuration drift and provided full parity between test and production. The results were transformative: Mirantis helped the Lab accelerate development, reduce risk, and achieve high availability. Their lead time for new projects was reduced from days or weeks to just hours or minutes.

Cornell Lab of Ornithology

David Childs

DevOps Engineer