Committed to becoming the leading digital airport by 2019, Schiphol wanted to use innovative technology to simplify the travel experience for passengers, improve the cost-efficiency of its operations, and collaborate with airlines and other stakeholders. To support its goal, Schiphol decided to migrate some systems to a modern, cloud-based infrastructure. “We were unable to get enough scalability from our existing on-premise infrastructure, so we wanted to see how an enterprise cloud cloud help,” said Mechiel Aalbers, senior technical application coordinator at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol.

Schiphol decided to use Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for its cloud platform, as well as other Red Hat products for storage, management, application programming interface (API) development and management, and integration. “At Schiphol, we first and foremost look for open source software, backed by support. These requirements put Red Hat front and center in our search process,” said Aalbers. “We could have selected the open source community version, but we would like to have support, so we chose Red Hat’s version.”

Schiphol launched a new cloud platform to production in only 10 days and cut development time for new services and APIs by 50%. “Our developers don’t have to wait for development or test environments now, so we can add greater business value quickly,” said Aalbers. The solution enables agile workflows and self-service capabilities, which allows Schiphol to efficiently build solutions to improve the passenger experience. “Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform has truly stolen my heart,” said Aalbers. “It is innovative and lets us deploy quickly and easily control our containers.”