Reference architectures
A growing catalog of real-world cloud native architectures contributed by CNCF end users. Browse by organization, industry, tag, and the CNCF projects used in each architecture. The most recently updated architectures are listed first; you can also sort alphabetically.
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The catalog
10 real-world architecture reports from CNCF end users.
Transport · Rail · Software · Cloud
SNCF
A Private Cloud "Kubernetes Service" deployable anywhere.
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This reference architecture describes SNCF's second generation on-premise Kubernetes platform, built on a bare-metal, open source OpenStack infrastructure to provide container orchestration and scheduling at scale.
Communication · Telecommunication · Software · Cloud
Swisscom (Switzerland) Ltd
A modern and sovereign Private Cloud «Kubernetes Service» for Swiss-based enterprises
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Our next generation Private Cloud Container as a Service offering «Kubernetes Service» for the B2B market addresses customer's need for scalable and highly available Kubernetes workload as a flexible and secure IT foundation.
Financial Services
Capital One
Scaling to Petabytes: Inside Capital One’s OpenTelemetry Architecture
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Capital One adopted OpenTelemetry as its enterprise observability framework, replacing legacy telemetry tooling with a single open standard for metrics, traces, and logs at petabyte scale.
gaming
Colopl Inc.
Colopl's FESTIBATTLE Infrastructure Architecture: Dedicated Game Servers with Agones on Kubernetes
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At COLOPL, our API servers run on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) with Cloud Spanner as the backend database. While that combination is somewhat distinctive, the overall structure is not far from a typical web service.
E-commerce · Retail · Digital Commerce
Flipkart Internet Pvt. Ltd.
From Afterthought to Practice: Flipkart’s Multi-Tenant Chaos Engineering Platform on LitmusChaos
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Flipkart is one of India’s leading digital commerce companies, running hundreds of tightly coupled microservices across Kubernetes and VM workloads that must withstand the traffic surges of Big Billion Days and other festive sales. The Cent
Software · Digital Media · Digital Experience
Adobe
Scaling Adobe’s Service Delivery Foundation with a Cell-based Architecture
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Security, Compliance, Support and Cost Efficiency are cross-cutting concerns for both infrastructure and developer experience.
Research · Public Sector
CERN
A Cloud Native Scientific Computing Platform for CERN NextGen AI
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Some additional projects outside the CNCF are essential to this deployment. [MLFlow](https://mlflow.org/), a project under the Linux Foundation used for model management and versioning [Nvidia GPU operator](https://github.com/NVIDIA/gpu-ope
Communication · Telecommunication
Swisscom (Switzerland) Ltd
End-to-End Cloud Native Telco Platform Automation at Swisscom
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Swisscom has built a cloud native telco platform for the end-to-end automation of its 5G standalone core network and cross-domain resource orchestration. The architecture replaces traditional imperative network management (Jenkins pipelines
optics · optical-manufacturing
ZEISS
ZEISS Vision Care - Order Fulfillment
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Our Business Enablement & IT team develops, designs, and operates the order fulfillment platform that underpins this process.
Financial · Insurance
Allianz Direct
Enabling Allianz Direct's scaling through Platform Engineering
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The PE team is internally organised in DDOs - Distributed DevOps, where each ddo owns a Domain. This setup follows the reverse Conway manoeuver where the reference architecture structure dictates the teams setup. The PE team consist of 13 m
About this catalog
Architectures are contributed by CNCF end users through the submission process. Several were first published in the CNCF Cloud Native Reference Architecture project and carry their source revision and attribution on the page. Documentation is distributed under CC BY 4.0.