Migration: case studies over time¶

40 case studies across 19 events, oldest first. Generated by wiki find "migration"; each moment links to where the talk discusses it.

Organizations: Airbnb, CITIC Bank, Cash App, Cloudera, Coinbase, EarnIn, Google, Loophole Labs, New York Times, Otomato Software, PetroChina, Replicated, SAP, Shopify, Spotify, Tencent, Uber, VMware, eBay

2016 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2016 (Seattle)¶

Migration of NCSOFT Game Servers to Kubernetes by Kang Jeongsik ¶

2018 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China 2018 (Shanghai)¶

PetroChina: Big Oil’s Information System on Cloud Native Technology – Hui Chi & Kai Chen — PetroChina¶

PetroChina describes building its information system on cloud native technology.

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

Migrating Jenkins to Kubernetes Broke Our Brains - Jonathan Hess & Loren Trout, SAP — SAP¶

SAP recounts the difficulties and lessons from migrating Jenkins to Kubernetes.

2019 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China 2019 (Shanghai)¶

Performing Infrastructure Migrations at Scale - Melanie Cebula, Airbnb — Airbnb¶

CITIC Bank's Containerized Exploration Road - Jia Xing, Alauda — CITIC Bank¶

CITIC Bank's journey adopting containers and Kubernetes, presented with Alauda.

2019 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2019 (San Diego)¶

Only Slightly Bent: Uber’s Kubernetes Migration Journey for Microservices - Yunpeng Liu, Uber — Uber¶

Uber describes its migration of microservices to Kubernetes and the lessons learned.

2020 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 - Virtual¶

Still Writing SQL Migrations? You Could Use A (Schema)Hero. - Marc Campbell, Replicated — Replicated¶

Live Migration of Production Workloads from Apache Mesos PaaS to Ku... Maria Camacho & Gufran Lutful ¶

Escaping the Jungle - Migration to Cloud Native CI/CD - Anton Weiss, Otomato Software — Otomato Software¶

Migrating to OpenTelemetry From a Custom Distributed Tracing Pipeline - Francis Bogsanyi, Shopify — Shopify¶

Shopify describes migrating from a custom distributed tracing pipeline to OpenTelemetry.

2022 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022¶

Transparent Live Migration of Services Between Kubernetes Cluster - Adam Janikowski & Jörg Schad ¶

2022 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022¶

Multi-Cluster Stateful Set Migration: A Solution To Upgrade Pain - Peter Schuurman & Matt Schallert ¶

Migrating From Single-Node Kubernetes Control Plane To HA In Product... Cong Yue & David Oppenheimer — Google¶

Describes migrating a single-node Kubernetes control plane to HA in production.

2023 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit China 2023¶

Container Live Migration in Kubernetes Production Environment - Yenan Lang and Hua Liu, Tencent — Tencent¶

Live CNI Migration in Production Environments - Yike Wang and Yanzhao Li, VMware — VMware¶

2023 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023¶

How We Migrated Over 1000 Services to Backstage Using GitOps and Survived to... - Shmaram & Mansoor ¶

The speakers describe migrating over 1000 services to Backstage using GitOps and the lessons learned.

2023 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2023¶

Zero-Downtime Live Migration of Stateful VMs on Kubernetes - Felicitas Pojtinger, Loophole Labs — Loophole Labs¶

Insights and Gotchas from the Zero-Downtime Migration of 10000+ Cloud Hosted... Prabhakar Palanivel ¶

Migrating Hybrid Big Data Platforms at Scale to Kubernetes - Sunil Govindan, Cloudera — Cloudera¶

Cloudera describes migrating its hybrid big data platforms to Kubernetes at scale.

2024 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit + AI_dev China 2024¶

KuaiShou's 100% Resource Utilization Boost: 100K Redis Migration from... - XueQiang Wu & YuXing Liu ¶

OS Migration Solution on Cloud | 云上操作系统迁移解决方案 - Jianlin Lv, eBay — eBay¶

Addressing Challenges of Cross-Architecture Dynamic Migration Over Heterogeneous... - Yanjun Chen ¶

2024 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2024¶

From Bottleneck to Breakthrough: EarnIn's Network Evolution with Link... K. Trivedi & S. Chakraborty — EarnIn¶

EarnIn recounts how its network evolved by adopting Linkerd.

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

Lightning Talk: Future-Proofing Kubernetes: Impact of Storage Version Migration and... N. Chaudhari ¶

ARM-Wrestling: Overcoming CPU Migration Challenges to Reduce Costs- Laurent Bernaille, Eric Mountain ¶

Cash App's Journey Into a Multi-Cluster Ecosystem - Rachel Sheikh, Cash App — Cash App¶

Cash App shares its journey to a multi-cluster Kubernetes ecosystem.

2025 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 - London¶

Dancing With the Pods: Live Migration of a Database Fleet While Serving... Jayme Bird & Manish Gill ¶

Project Lightning Talk: Revolutionizing Legacy Migrations with Konveyor AI - Jonah Sussman ¶

How We Moved Spotify To a Proxyless gRPC Service Mesh - Erik Lindblad & Erica Manno, Spotify — Spotify¶

Spotify explains how it migrated to a proxyless gRPC service mesh.

Journey at the New York Times: Is Sidecar-Less Service Mesh Disappearing I... Lin Sun & Ahmed Bebars — New York Times¶

The New York Times shares its service mesh journey and evaluates whether sidecar-less mesh is replacing sidecars.

2025 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025¶

Zero Downtime Migration of Monolith To K8s Using Sidecar and Contai... Deepak Kosaraju & James Dabbs ¶

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.

▶ 2:54 … Historically at Spotify, a migration of our fleet of software to this new version of Apollo or to a new version of Apollo would …
▶ 6:34 … hours or days with full visibility into the progress of the migration without direct need from the teams that own the consuming services. So …
▶ 19:41 … So now as we are in progress with this monorrebon migration across our engineering domains such as front-end clients, mobile clients and of …
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Rearchitecting Compute at Coinbase: Migrating To Karpenter for Fast, Reliable Scali... Frances Chong — Coinbase¶

Coinbase rearchitected its compute by migrating to Karpenter for faster, more reliable scaling.

2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + OpenInfra Summit + PyTorch Conference China 2026¶

In-Place PVC Re-Binding: Zero-Downtime Disk Migration Using Only... Maxim Nazarenko & Nibir Bora ¶

Escaping the Vendor Trap: A Journey for Migrating Legacy... Trong Vinh Nguyen & Quoc Dat Le ¶

Speakers share their journey migrating legacy systems off a proprietary vendor to cloud native open source.

2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026¶

Enterprise-Scale Migrations Using Agentic Workflows with Human-in... Alvaro Saurin & Jose M Navarro ¶

1000 Services, 1 Year, 0 Downtime: Airbnb’s Zonal Cluster Migration - Sunny Beatteay, Airbnb — Airbnb¶

▶ 5:05 … Um, and then the the the final trigger that like pushed us to choose cluster API was our multi-cloud migration. So, essentially, we …
▶ 5:49 … Um and so this whole multi-cloud migration it essentially required us to provision like 60 plus clusters within like a uh not just …
▶ 10:15 … Um so, once we adopted cluster API, I mean you guys already know like no no like um adoption or migration is complete without …
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