Case Study: Swisscom achieves a scalable, secure Application Cloud PaaS for microservices with MongoDB Enterprise Advanced

Swisscom Builds its New Application Cloud PaaS for Microservices with Cloud Foundry, Docker, and MongoDB Enterprise Advanced

Swisscom, Switzerland’s largest communications provider, transformed itself into a cloud services provider by building the Application Cloud PaaS to enable developers and enterprises to deploy cloud‑native microservices at scale. The challenge was to offer a secure, standards‑based platform that supports stateful services and meets strong local data‑sovereignty and customer demand for a non‑relational database option.

Swisscom implemented an open stack — Cloud Foundry on OpenStack/KVM, Docker containers, ScaleIO storage and Flocker for persistent volumes — and integrated MongoDB Enterprise Advanced via a Cloud Foundry service broker and Ops Manager. The result: rapid adoption (over 2,000 database containers within months, more than half running MongoDB), enterprise customers like dormakaba onboarded, and a differentiated Swiss‑hosted MongoDB Enterprise‑as‑a‑Service offering with advanced security, monitoring and backup capabilities.

Swisscom

Marco Hochstrasser

Head of Cloud Platform Development