Why is everyone talking about Kubernetes? Should my company be using this tech? Read 4 case studies from companies who have already adopted Kubernetes and find out more about the value it added to their business! Learn more about Kubernetes at https://www.bytemark.co.uk/managed-kubernetes/

1. Why is Everyone Talking
About Kubernetes?
The Real Business Value:
Case Studies

2. ○ To give a quick overview, Kubernetes is a tool which orchestrates
containerised workloads.
○ It provides standardised mechanisms for deploying applications,
automating tasks to allow for a faster, more flexible, scalable and reliable
development process.
Recap: What is Kubernetes?
If you’re a Kubernetes beginner, we also have a slideshow which gives a full introduction to
the tool (with all the jargon explained). You can view it here:
https://www.slideshare.net/BMPresentations/kubernetes-for-beginners-an-introductory-guide

3. Everyone in tech industry has been talking about Kubernetes for the last couple of years.
Interest has also spilled into other sectors, with industry leaders from banking to e-commerce
adopting the tech.
● The Questions: What evidence is there that Kubernetes is worth the investment?
How do I convince the decision makers in my company?
● The Answer… Demonstrate the business value!
Should My Company Invest?

4. ● Something has ‘business value’ if it provides a tangible benefit to the company.
For example:
○ Reducing costs
○ Increasing revenue
○ Saving time
○ Reducing staff workloads
○ Reducing errors
○ Optimising resource usage
● We’ve collated case studies from 4 early-adopters of Kubernetes which
demonstrates the business value they saw.
What is Business Value?

5. Case Study 1: Capital One
● Who are they? Capital One is a leading retail bank. They have applications that
handle transactions, fraud prevention, credit applications and more, with each one
processing hundreds of actions every minute of the day.
● Why do they use Kubernetes? It’s important for them to be able to update their
applications quickly and safely. They had already containerised their apps using
Docker back in 2016 and needed a tool to help them scale and coordinate their
workflow.

6. Capital One: The Real Business Value

7. ● Who are they? The Financial Times (FT) is an international broadsheet newspaper
publishing articles online and in-print daily.
● Why do they use Kubernetes? Having adopted containerisation back in 2016, a
year later they had over 150 microservices which their teams were finding
increasingly difficult to work with. They recognised that they needed a stable,
coherent system for managing everything.
Case Study 2: Financial Times

8. Financial Times: The Real Business Value

9. ● Who are they? provides cloud services e.g. storage and auth to help app developers
to quickly build powerful and scalable apps for web and mobile.
● Why do they use Kubernetes? Scalability is at the core of their business - they
wanted a tool that could enable auto-scaling and reduce the need for their engineers
to be alerted when a customer’s application needed scaling.
Case Study 3: Cloud Boost

10. Cloud Boost: The Real Business Value

11. ● Who are they? Ocado is an online-only supermarket, delivering food and household
items to thousands of customers. They developed a single platform (Ocado Smart
Platform) to allow them to manage everything from their warehouse to their websites.
In recent years, they have expanded into licensing this software to other retailers.
● Why do they use Kubernetes? They had reached a point where in order to
continue scaling their services, they needed to be able to access them all through
one API to streamline their rollouts.
Case Study 4: Ocado

12. Ocado: The Real Business Value

13. LOOKING FOR A
KUBERNETES SOLUTION?
● Contact sales@bytemark.co.uk to discuss your
needs.
● Visit blog.bytemark.co.uk to read these case
studies in more depth.
● Visit bytemark.co.uk/managed-kubernetes/ to
learn more about our Kubernetes service.