Below is a list of adopters of Rook in production environments that have publicly shared the details of their usage as well as the benefits provided by Rook that their business relies on. There are additional adopters of Rook, especially those with on-premises deployments, that are not ready to share the details of their usage publicly at this time.
- Calit2 (California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology) is one of 4 institutes formed by a joint partnership of University of California and the state of California with the goal of “inventing the university research environment of the future”. They operate one of the largest known Rook clusters in production and they are using Rook to provide cheap, reliable, and fast storage to scientific users.
- NAV (Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration) is the current Norwegian public welfare agency, responsible for 1/3 of the state budget of Norway. They find a massive simplification of management and maintenance for their Ceph clusters by adopting Rook.
- Replicated delivers “SaaS On-Prem” and are the creators of open-source kURL: a custom Kubernetes distro creator that software vendors use to package and distribute production-grade Kubernetes infrastructure. Rook is a default add-on in kURL, so all installations include Rook to manage highly available storage that the software vendor can depend on.
- Discogs is building the largest and most comprehensive music database and marketplace in the world and services millions of users all across the globe. Rook enables them to save both time and money in the long term and allows their IT operations team to function with fewer dedicated staff.
- Finleap Connect offers a full range of leading fintech solutions to financial institutions across Europe. Rook has been running flawlessly for them across many versions and upgrades, and delivers the performance and resilience they require for their most critical business applications.
- Centre of Excellence in Next Generation Networks (CENGN) is on a mission to accelerate the growth of the Canadian Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector. The Rook Ceph operator is key to the Kubernetes clusters frequently set up for projects by small-medium enterprises in the CENGN labs.
- Avisi develops and operates software for organizations like the the Dutch Notary Association. They have survived multiple disaster scenarios already with Rook and it has made their cloud native journey in the private cloud so much easier by providing a powerful tool that lets them take advantage of a mature storage product with ease and peace of mind.
- Geodata Provides geospatial services and Geographical Information Systems (GIS). The latest versions of Rook have amazed them, especially compared to many of the other storage options they have attempted in the cloud native ecosystem.
- Informatik Computer Cloud (ICC) at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences to provide a seamless, fast, flexible and reliable storage service to its staff and students.
- Gini uses Ceph with Rook to provide a redundant and stable S3-compatible storage infrastructure for their services in order to provide the world's most advanced digital everyday assistant to their users.
- Cloudways utilizes the flexibility of Rook's orchestration of Ceph for their users, taking advantage of the fast I/O with block storage as well as multiple readers and writers of shared filesystem storage.
- Crowdfox believes in strong community projects and are therefore putting their bets on Rook. They were able to seamlessly migrate VMs between host nodes with zero downtime thanks to Rook.
- Radio Sound uses Rook to power their website and GitLab for their CI/CD pipeline, because of the truly cloud-native experience, like "a little drop of the Google magic in our own server rack".
- CyCore Systems
- Datacom
- Turtle Network (BLACK TURTLE BVBA)
- LeanNet Ltd.
- FHE3 GmbH
- infraBuilder
- GreenCom Networks
There are many additional adopters of Rook in the evaluating phase that will be added to this list as they transition to production deployments.