CUBE Bikes Gets to 100% Uptime With Only 5 hrs of Maintenance p.m.

To keep up with their dynamic business landscape, CUBE Bikes’ IT team wanted to increase the frequency of new releases for their business-critical services. They also needed a more automated, dynamic process for updates anytime, so they would no longer need to run these afterhours. In addition, they sought to eliminate unforeseen errors due to interdependencies between services. Essentially, what they needed was high availability of services 24/7/365.

Well aware that containers would help them achieve high availability of their services, the CUBE Bikes’ team chose Kubermatic Kubernetes Platform (KKP) to deploy and manage Kubernetes on their premises. To ensure smooth implementation and ongoing support, they also decided to go for Kubermatic’s Managed Service. After the deployment of KKP was completed within a short delay, they migrated their services one after another to their new highly available infrastructure.

CUBE Bike’s IT team now delivers more releases and updates automatically, without the need for over- night staffing. They’ve eliminated errors due to interdependencies and, according to Helmut Joost, Technological Head of IT, “the whole environment is much more flexible, faster, very stable and easy to scale.” This new world has encouraged Helmut to plan the migration of the remaining legacy services for better functionality and to provide all of the benefits of containerization throughout the organization.