No Matter What Path You Take
Apprenda is your platform partner for cloud native success with Kubernetes
Apprenda creates and supports modern, enterprise-ready application platforms for both cloud native and traditional application workloads. Based on Kubernetes, Apprenda provides compatible solution offerings for both individuals and IT departments, removing friction from the software delivery process and transforming IT into an engine of growth.
Our Offerings
I want to get an enterprise-ready Kubernetes cluster up and running
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- Open Source
- Trusted Defaults
- Networking
- Monitoring
- Logging
- Service Routing
- Storage
I'm getting started with Kubernetes and looking for help with our project
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- Architectural Consulting
- Custom Development
- Support Subscriptions
- Implementation
- Integrations
- Assessments
I'm actively using Kubernetes and looking for commercial support
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- Open Source
- Experienced Experts
- Full Cluster Support
- Committed Response Times
- Public and Private Clouds
I want to offer an application platform as a shared service to my organization
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- Kubernetes Based
- Managed or On-Prem
- New & Existing Applications
- Policy Driven
- Multi-tenant
- Automate Workload Placements
- Self Service Ops & Dev
- Auto Scaling
Central IT
Offer a Shared Service Application Platform Based on Kubernetes
Apprenda provides a comprehensive, policy driven, cloud application platform that your organization delivers as a service to development teams, with support for both cloud native and traditional application workloads.
Individuals
Get your Kubernetes project off the ground with expert services, OSS tools, and commercial support subscriptions
Apprenda provides all the training, open source tools, and expert services needed to unify your container management initiatives into a production Kubernetes solution backed by your team.
Who's Using Kubernetes?
Kubernetes is the largest and fastest growing open source software solution focused on democratizing distributed system patterns. Our flagship Kubernetes based platform (Apprenda Cloud Platform), as well as our expert support and services are helping organizations accelerate their digital transformation. In its first two years of general availability, more production users have committed to Kubernetes than any other comparable solution.
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In Walmart’s words, “the initiative’s top-level goals include abstracting applications from their underlying infrastructure, delivering the ability to rapidly deploy new business solutions, and providing seamless, on-demand scaling based on application workloads. Each business application should function autonomously, like the distribution centers themselves.”
Highlights
- Deploys clouds to more than 200 distribution centers worldwide
- Removes complexity of using customized configurations and scripts to manage microservices
- Leverages open source software end-to-end: OneOps, Kubernetes, Jenkins and Nexus
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Concur delivers expense and invoice management in a software as a service model. The auditing industry is highly regulated and requires significant compliance. Concur uses Kubernetes to power its receipts management service, allowing them to run in a multicloud AWS and on-premises enviroment
Highlights
- Multicloud hybrid of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and operations managed data centers
- Created immutable clusters to mitigate downtime risk
- Leverages Prometheus for monitoring
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Viacom is a large media conglomerate whose subsidiaries include Nickelodeon, Comedy Central and MTV. When migrating to Kubernetes, Viacom started with a flagship web property – MTV.com – that they recently had made into microservices.
Highlights
- Migrating MTV’s large web property to Kubernetes
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Buffer is a venture capital backed social media platform with over three million users. Its fully distributed engineering team is spread across ten time zones, which makes it challenging to enact sweeping changes like moving from a monolithic codebase to microservices. Kubernetes was the missing piece that has allowed Buffer to stay true to its engineering culture, empowering its team of engineers to move fast while also having a resilient and stable application infrastructure.
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- Transforming monolithic Ruby app to microservices
- 54% of Buffer traffic is now routed to Kubernetes hosted services
- The largest service handles 24,000 requests/minute on Kubernetes
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The UK Home Office is a government organization responsible for immigration, security, and law and order in the United Kingdom. The UK government is undergoing a modernization effort to better serve its citizens through new technologies. The UK Home Office is undergoing its own cloud native transformation, partly through containerization on Kubernetes.
Highlights
- Contributes valuable battle tested code to Kubernetes
- Containerizing everything in the project
- Large government organization
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Arkena is a video-on-demand platform that powers many of the solutions from the large European media conglomerates. Arkena moved from Heroku, a public Platform as a Service, to Kubernetes in order to reduce costs while maintaining the high availability and scalability their customers’ demand.
Highlights
- Successfully migrated from a public Platform as a Service (Heroku) to Kubernetes on bare metal
- Efficient resource management
- Reduced infrastructure cost
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Don Duet, co-head of Goldman Sach’s technology division, states in WSJ that “we do both, Docker and Kubernetes, for things like running and starting…Kubernetes is arguably a better scheduler…if you are going to run 1,000 containers on 1,500 computers…It is designed much more for that. Docker’s own product is great if you want to run five containers on three machines. We have both problems.”
Highlights
- Containerizing nearly 5,000 applications running on its cloud
- Employs roughly 10,000 technical professionals and developers
- Moving 90% of its computing to containers
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Monzo is a venture backed bank that is using technology to change the retail banking industry. Monzo was not hindered by legacy infrastructure and technology decisions. They chose Kubernetes because they wanted the backbone of this type of software defined bank to be extensible, efficient, resilient and secure. Over 60,000 people in the UK have downloaded the Kubernetes powered Monzo application.
Highlights
- Designed with the extreme performance and consistency requirements needed for finance
- Expands across collocated data centers and multiple cloud providers (multicloud and hybrid cloud)
- Compliant and secure to meet the requirements of the United Kingdom banking regulators
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Eve Online is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) from CCP games that supports hundreds of thousands of subscribers who take advantage of a single universe with over 5,000 star systems. Currently, many of the services are monolithic but the Eve Online team is modernizing and containerizing parts of the gaming infrastructure with Kubernetes.
Highlights
- Siphoning off services from monolithic development from one of the world’s most popular MMORPGs
- Hosts TeamCity and GitLab on Kubernetes
- Builds bridges to make it easier for developers to access more of the IT stack without operations
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Pearson, a worldwide leader in education, set a goal to increase the number of learners it serves from 75 million to 200 million by 2025. To drive this growth they required a technology platform that could scale to provide best in class learning experience and to deliver products to market faster. Pearson chose Kubernetes as the centralized platform to effortlessly scale, easily manage containers and improve developer productivity.
Highlights
- Geographically distributed central platform serving 400+ development teams
- Up to 20% increase in developer productivity
- Blue Green deployments with pipeline as code
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The New York Times operates in a very dynamic environment where there is a continuous flow of information in real-time. It realized that in such a deadline driven environment developers needed concentrated responsibility with no hard dependencies on other teams to handle infrastructure. The company leveraged Kubernetes to offer a self service driven platform and reduce complexity in managing infrastructure.
Highlights
- Fully enabled developer self service
- Leveraged dashboard for complete visibility
- Moved from expensive virtual machines to containers
- Broke barriers between developer and sysadmin
- Implement microservices based architecture
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Box, one of the leading file sharing and content management cloud services, wanted to re-architect its monolithic application that powered Box.com into microservices with the goal of achieving agility, extensibility and easy scaling. To do so, Box trusted Kubernetes due to its broad support for varied infrastructure and apps, a rich set of stable APIs and an unparalleled commitment from the community.
Highlights
- 3 clusters in production
- Full bare metal implementation
- Running serveral microservices serving Box.com
- Ability to seamlessly burst to public cloud
- Artifactory as repository manager
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OpenAI, a non-profit artificial intelligence (AI) research company, wanted to build an infrastructure to maximize the productivity of deep learning researchers. For deep learning, a line of research can go quickly from single-machine experimentation to requiring 1000s of cores. By leveraging Kubernetes, OpenAI built a batch-optimized scaling manager that could handle bursts of unpredictable workloads, while providing low-friction tooling, logging, scheduling, and monitoring.
Highlights
- Seamlessly handle bursty and unpredictable workloads
- In case of excess capacity, drains and terminates the relevant nodes
- Leveraged public cloud
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Ticketmaster, the world’s largest ticket and entertainment e-commerce company, set a goal to build a modern digital platform in order to stay ahead of competition and expedite product delivery. It wanted a platform that would not only enable teams to work autonomously, but also to manage distributed systems at scale. After thorough due diligence, Ticketmaster chose Kubernetes for its self-service capabilities, feature-full APIs and primitives, and committed community.
Highlights
- Mitigated black friday problem
- Optimized platform for public cloud
- Rapid development
- Prometheus for monitoring
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SKY, a leading British telecommunications company, wanted a next generation container orchestration platform that would enable it to swiftly launch new services. It wanted a solution that allowed teams to work in parallel, developing applications without worrying about the target infrastructure. Sky decided to make Kubernetes the backbone of their new digital platform for Kubernetes’ self healing capabilities, easy to use APIs and support for varied infrastructures.
Highlights
- Fully enabled developer self service with Jenkins for CI pipeline
- Leveraging distributed microservices architecture
- Enabled faster rollout of new Sky services
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As soon as Comcast began development of its X1 Cloud DVR application, it immediately became apparent that scalability and uptime requirements were critical and would incur high operational costs. Considering Kubernetes’ self-healing capabilities and ease of running distributed workloads, Comcast trusted Kubernetes to develop the application rapidly, to quickly deploy it and reliably maintain deployments.
Highlights
- In production across multiple regionally located data centers
- Fully distributed microservices architecture
- Log aggregation, monitoring, and load balancing as first class features
- Rapidly being adopted by other Comcast teams
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Bloomberg, a leading financial software, data, and media company, needs to constantly collect and process real-time financial data from millions of sources and billions of transactions. To ensure that its technology moves with the speed of business, it wanted a next generation micro-services platform that would allow single click deployment. Bloomberg trusted Kubernetes for its ease of deployment, seamless orchestration, auto scaling and self-healing capabilities.
Highlights
- Single click self service deployment
- Deployment time reduced from hours to seconds
- Ability to run tests in production with smooth vendoring of dependencies
- Used by multiple teams across the globe
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Niantic, the company that built Pokemon Go, chose Kubernetes as the trusted platform to deliver and host the game. Pokemon Go went viral and the player traffic surged ten times more than the worst-case estimate. Kubernetes’ ability to orchestrate container cluster at global-scale allowed Niantic to serve millions of users while continuously adapting, improving and deploying live changes for their players.
Highlights
- Scaled to cater to 50x of expected traffic
- No user disruption from updates
- HTTP/S Load Balancer and low latency for quality user experience
- Runs on public cloud (GKE)
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SoundCloud, the world’s largest audio streaming platform, moved from a monolithic architecture to a container based distributed architecture to overcome inefficient scaling, fragile deployments and friction in launching new services. It soon realized that containers alone would not solve the problems due to complexity in monitoring, deployment and management. SoundCloud trusted Kubernetes as the centralized container platform for its powerful scheduling, powerful networking and extensibility.
Highlights
- Scalability to provide quality experience to 175+ million active monthly users
- Public and private bare metal deployment
- Continuous integration pipeline for rapid development
- Monitoring backed by Prometheus
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Unacast is a venture capital backed company that connects 1.8 million beacons from its users physical behaviors to 50 online marketing platform partners. Unacast has built ChatOps model for deploying to Kubernetes through Slack.
Highlights
- Leverages Slack, “ChatOps”, to deploy to Kubernetes
- Completely runs on Google Cloud
Workshops
Request a workshop in your city!
Apprenda hosts the most sought after Kubernetes training workshops across the globe in conjunction with our partners: Google, IBM, and Cisco