Case Study: Lufthansa Systems achieves rapid CMS spin-ups and transparent container persistence with Portworx PX‑Enterprise

For Lufthansa Systems, Customizing In-Flight Connectivity and Entertainment Systems for Its Award-winning BoardConnect Solution Depends on Stateful Containers

Lufthansa Systems, the IT subsidiary behind the BoardConnect in‑flight entertainment and connectivity platform, needed a way to provide persistent storage for hundreds of customized CMS instances so airline partners could deploy branded content and services quickly. Containers were central to their Docker‑based architecture, but stateful workloads were tied to hosts, hard to move across clusters, and time‑intensive to manage — so Lufthansa Systems turned to Portworx, deploying Portworx PX‑Enterprise to address container persistence.

Portworx PX‑Enterprise was implemented as a containerized, vendor‑ and storage‑agnostic persistence layer that integrates with Docker orchestration and provides near‑native block performance and easy management via Lighthouse UI/CLI. With Portworx, Lufthansa Systems can auto‑launch full CMS stacks (databases and filesystems), spin up new CMS environments in minutes, and cut the overhead of managing stateful containers to “virtually zero,” enabling rapid customization of BoardConnect across test, integration, and production environments.

Lufthansa Systems

Michael Wilmes

Software Architect