Case Study: CAFOM achieves fast, resilient Kubernetes storage for pandemic-ready marketplaces with Ondat

Rapid Kubernetes Development with Scale, Performance and Enterprise Resilience

CAFOM Group, through its agile subsidiary Amarena, needed to rapidly build localized online marketplaces during the COVID-19 pandemic, while modernizing parts of its legacy commerce stack on Kubernetes. The team wanted to run stateful, transactional applications such as MySQL, Elasticsearch, Solr, and Prometheus with reliable storage, but faced challenges with performance, resilience, and the limitations of Persistent Volumes tied to single nodes.

Ondat provided a storage platform that let CAFOM use fast local storage with data replicated across nodes, so workloads could be rescheduled without losing access to data. With Ondat, Amarena gained better IOPS performance, stronger resilience, simple self-service provisioning of Persistent Volumes, and portability across private, public, and hybrid Kubernetes environments, helping the team move faster and focus on development with greater confidence.

CAFOM

Paul Guichon

Director of Site Reliability Engineering