Production Operations: case studies over time¶

10 case studies across 9 events, oldest first. Generated by wiki find "production operations"; each moment links to where the talk discusses it.

Organizations: Airbnb, Chronosphere, Greg DeArment & Vlad Ungureanu's company, Salesforce, T-Mobile, Tencent, Viettel Group, Zalando

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

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Managing Production Systems with Kubernetes ¶

A practitioner account of the good, bad and ugly of running production systems on Kubernetes.

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

How T-Mobile Built and Scaled Kubernetes On-Prem for the 2018 Retail Season - James Webb, T-Mobile — T-Mobile¶

T-Mobile describes building and scaling its own on-prem Kubernetes platform to handle the 2018 retail season.

2019 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2019 (Barcelona)¶

Kubernetes Failure Stories and How to Crash Your Clusters - Henning Jacobs, Zalando SE — Zalando¶

Zalando shares real Kubernetes production failures and what it learned from them.

Running Kubernetes on Ephemeral Infrastructure - Greg DeArment & Vlad Ungureanu — Greg DeArment & Vlad Ungureanu's company¶

Speakers share their experience running Kubernetes on ephemeral infrastructure in production.

2020 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 - Virtual¶

Speed Racer: Local Persistent Volumes in Production - Matt Schallert, Chronosphere — Chronosphere¶

Chronosphere shares its experience running local persistent volumes in production for performance.

2020 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2020 - Virtual¶

10 More Weird Ways to Blow Up Your Kubernetes - Jian Cheung & Joseph Kim, Airbnb — Airbnb¶

Airbnb shares weird failure modes and outages it hit running Kubernetes in production and the lessons learned.

2021 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit China 2021¶

How to Efficiently Manage Tens of Thousands of etcd Clusters? - Cong Tang & Chaofan Wang, Tencent — Tencent¶

Tencent describes how it manages tens of thousands of etcd clusters in production.

2021 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2021¶

Operationalizing Kubernetes Sidecars in Production at Salesforce - Mayank Kumar, Salesforce — Salesforce¶

Salesforce shares how it operates Kubernetes sidecars in production and the lessons learned.

2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026¶

What Survived Production: Operating Game Backends at Million-Player Scale - Berkay Uckac ¶

Reports lessons on what survived in production when operating game backends at million-player scale.

2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2026¶

Changing the Engine Mid-Flight: Zero-Downtime Ceph Upgrades - Cuong Nguyen, Viettel Group — Viettel Group¶

Viettel Group describes performing zero-downtime upgrades of its Ceph clusters.