Why ADIDAS Using Kubernetes ???

✨Staying True to Its Culture, adidas Got 40% of Its Most Impactful Systems Running on Kubernetes in a Year

First let us kow about Adidas and Kubernetes…

Adidas:

The adidas Group strives to be the global leader in the sporting goods industry with brands built on a passion for sports and a sporting lifestyle.

Kubernetes:

The Docker adoption is still growing exponentially as more and more companies have started using it in production. It is important to use an orchestration platform to scale and manage your containers.

Imagine a situation where you have been using Docker for a little while, and have deployed on a few different servers. Your application starts getting massive traffic, and you need to scale up fast; how will you go from 3 servers to 40 servers that you may require? And how will you decide which container should go where? How would you monitor all these containers and make sure they are restarted if they die?

This is where Kubernetes comes in.

Kubernetes (commonly referred to as “K8s”) is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling and management of containerized applications that was originally designed by Google and donated to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. It aims to provide a “platform for automating deployment, scaling, and operations of application containers across clusters of hosts”. It supports a range of container tools, including Docker.

Finally , Kubernetes allows any company to operate its software code at the same level of scalability as the largest companies in the world on competitive data center pricing for hardware resources.

So , Adidas is with Kubernetes to solve its software code related challenges.

What’s the challenges???

The adidas team was happy with its software choices from a technology perspective — but accessing all of the tools was a problem.

For instance, just to get a developer VM, you had to send a request form, give the purpose, give the title of the project, who’s responsible, give the internal cost center a call so that they can do recharges. The best case is you got your machine in half an hour. Worst case is half a week or sometimes even a week.

Solution:

Solution for the challenge is “ to include Kubernetes in Adidas”……………..

To improve the process, that they started from the developer point of view, and looked for ways to shorten the time it took to get a project up and running and into the adidas infrastructure. They found the solution with containerization, agile development, continuous delivery, and a cloud native platform that includes Kubernetes and Prometheus.

How Kubernetes helps adidas to improve its e-commerce site ……..

👉Just six months after the project began, 100% of the adidas e-commerce site was running on Kubernetes.

👉Load time for the e-commerce site was reduced by half. Releases went from every 4–6 weeks to 3–4 times a day.

👉With 4,000 pods, 200 nodes, and 80,000 builds per month, adidas is now running 40% of its most critical, impactful systems on its cloud native platform.

Thanks for reading guys…!!!!