Automation: case studies over time¶

13 case studies across 11 events, oldest first. Generated by wiki find "automation"; each moment links to where the talk discusses it.

Organizations: Cisco DevNet, Comcast, Databricks, Liftoff, Liftoff Mobile, Meetup, Red Hat, Shopify, Spotify, Toyota, Zalando

2017 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2017 (Berlin)¶

Scaling Organizations Using Kubernetes [I] - Richard Fliam, Comcast VIPER — Comcast¶

Comcast VIPER shares lessons and mistakes from scaling its engineering organization and microservices with Kubernetes.

▶ 11:06 insertion sort is faster and really small data sets the xkcd timetable on automation explains this pretty well until you have a lot of …
▶ 24:48 automation to auto join the clusters with the appropriate labels applied even better these cloths images are not stored there in memory that means …
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2017 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2017 (Austin)¶

DevOps Friendly Doc Publishing for APIs & Microservices - Amanda Whaley, Cisco DevNet — Cisco DevNet¶

Cisco DevNet describes its DevOps-friendly approach to publishing API and microservice documentation.

2018 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China 2018 (Shanghai)¶

Kubernetes CI/CD Practices at Meetup - Rui Chen, Meetup — Meetup¶

Meetup describes how it built and runs its Kubernetes-based CI/CD practices for its own services.

2018 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2018 (Copenhagen)¶

Continuously Deliver your Kubernetes Infrastructure - Mikkel Larsen, Zalando SE — Zalando¶

Zalando explains how it continuously delivers updates to its Kubernetes infrastructure.

2018 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2018 (Seattle)¶

Automated Kubernetes Scalability Testing - Sebastian Jug & Naga Ravi Chaitanya Elluri, Red Hat — Red Hat¶

Red Hat engineers present how they automated Kubernetes scalability testing in their own testing process.

2022 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022¶

Fun with Continuous Compliance - Ann Wallace, Shopify & Zeal Somani, Google — Shopify¶

Shopify, with Google, shares how it approaches continuous compliance for its Kubernetes infrastructure.

2023 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023¶

Using CNCF Projects for Adding Music and Announcements to My Home Elevator - Erwin de Keijzer ¶

Erwin de Keijzer describes using CNCF projects to add music and announcements to their home elevator.

2024 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2024 - Salt Lake City¶

Automated Multi-Cloud Large Scale K8s Cluster Lifecycle Management - Sourav Khandelwal, Databricks — Databricks¶

Databricks describes automating lifecycle management of large-scale Kubernetes clusters across clouds.

Shifting Gears: Leveraging CNCF Tools to Streamline Operations at Toyota C... B. Phillips, R. Heckel — Toyota¶

Toyota describes how it used CNCF tools to streamline its own operations.

2025 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025¶

Adopting a Fleet-first Mindset - Andy Beane, Spotify — Spotify¶

Spotify explains how adopting a fleet-first mindset and its Fleetshift platform enabled fleet-wide changes at scale.

▶ 16:03 … automerged with a 3:1 bottom ratio of PRs created through automation. Let's now take a look at some real life examples of …
▶ 26:54 … Um can you summarize? >> Um the question was what are the assumptions of this approach like test automation? Um do you mean the context
▶ 27:35 … Maybe you have really strict requirements for test automation. But maybe if you're a startup with three people and you don't have …
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2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026¶

Driving Adoption and Automation With MCP in Production at Liftoff - Tommy Nguyen, Liftoff Mobile — Liftoff, Liftoff Mobile¶

2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2026¶

From 165 Days To 30 Minutes: Breaking Enterprise Silos With… A. Nishijima & M. Okamura & K. Yamamoto ¶

Japanese enterprise team reports cutting delivery lead time from 165 days to 30 minutes by breaking down silos.

Don't Start With 500 Clusters: Patterns in Scaling Multi-Cluster Kubernetes… N. Bora & M. Morrison ¶

Speakers share patterns and lessons from scaling multi-cluster Kubernetes with Cluster API, arguing against starting with hundreds of clusters.

▶ 12:27 … Um this is like uh essentially leaning into automation lend us reliability as a side effect. Um and then last but not least like …
▶ 20:32 Um operators that are running on a reconcile loop make cluster automation very fast and predictable, but they can also make destruction very fast …
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