Case Study: Allan Gray achieves maximum API availability and faster deployments with Ubuntu's Charmed Kubernetes

Allan Gray unlocks unprecedented availability and productivity with Charmed Kubernetes

Allan Gray, a Cape Town–based investment manager overseeing USD 41.4 billion in client assets, moved from a monolithic architecture to microservices and ran all APIs on an in‑house Kubernetes cluster. Facing the risk of catastrophic downtime, lengthy KubeSpray upgrades that consumed senior developer time, and the need for highly available load‑balancing, the firm sought enterprise‑grade support to protect mission‑critical systems.

Allan Gray adopted Canonical’s Charmed Kubernetes with Ubuntu Advantage and Juju, enabling the cluster to be deployed in under two weeks (versus about two months previously) and providing 24/7 expert support; UA saves roughly two weeks of work per Kubernetes upgrade. The result is a secure, up‑to‑date, highly available platform, faster provisioning across infrastructure (Nginx, RabbitMQ, non‑production clusters) and freed developer capacity for higher‑value DevOps work.

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