Leon de Vries, Manager Operations: 

“Working with Guida resulted in a scalable, secure, and innovative SaaS platform. Leveraging the innovative power of Kubernetes and the cloud-native ecosystem, Cofano has gained a significant competitive edge, empowering our global clients.”

The Customer

Established in 2010 by CEO Marco Huisman, Cofano is a pioneering Logistic Container SaaS platform provider. The suite of applications empowers enterprises across diverse logistics sectors with real-time insights and precise control over their supply chain operations. Intuitive graphical overviews offer detailed visibility, enhancing operational efficiency with a single click. 

The Challenge

Cofano wants to stay ahead in the logistic container software market. In doing so, it intends to scale up its software and focus on innovative development. As a premier SaaS provider, Cofano decided to ensure maximum continuity by working with an experienced Managed Kubernetes Service provider to manage their mission-critical SaaS platform.

The Solution

Guida delivers a fully managed Kubernetes platform, also known as Guida Managed Kubernetes (GMK). GMK integrates infrastructure as code, a curated stack of open-source software, and SRE support as a subscription service.

Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) from Guida manage the Kubernetes platform 24/7, allowing Cofano to focus on the development of its highly innovative SaaS platform. Guida operates the Kubernetes platform and delivers an open-source stack of tools for load-balancing, monitoring, log management, backups, and security policies. 

The Impact

Within a short period, Cofano and Guida migrated the applications to a new Kubernetes platform, allowing Cofano to focus on high-end software development while ensuring that security and development processes are in place and under control.

Guida’s services have the following benefits for Cofano:

  • Guida’s Site Reliability Engineers fully manage Kubernetes clusters 24/7, ensuring they are available, secure, and up-to-date.  

  • Faster onboarding of new customers based on fully automated CD pipelines using a GitOps approach.

  • More insight and control on how the SaaS platform functions and performs based on logging, metrics, and dashboarding.

  • There are no hidden costs or vendor lock-ins.

  • There is a trusted partner who helps with Kubernetes, continuous delivery, security, and cost management.