Michelin, the French multinational that makes tyres for aircraft, bicycles, cars, and industrial equipment, has migrated over 300 critical applications from a VMware managed service to self-managed Kubernetes clusters in a major platforms shift at the €27.2 billion annual revenue manufacturer.
That shift has helped it slash its platform costs by 44%, cut the amount of time it takes to upgrade its software by 85% and seen it double its Kubernetes footprint, the firm said; as well as helping it to attract and retain engineers who prefer building technology to filing support tickets.
Key to the shift? The powers of cluster API...
