# Customer Stories

How enterprises across aviation, finance, retail, and logistics scale Kafka with Conduktor. ROI, scale, and lessons learned.

Trusted by industry leaders

- **Aviation & Transport** — Virgin Australia Boosts Kafka Adoption and Efficiency — customer-stories/virgin-australia-increases-operational-efficiency-and-kafka-adoption-with-conduktor — 300 hours/month saved
- **Transport** — FlixBus: Data Mesh in Practice with Self-Service Kafka — customer-stories/flix — 50+ teams enabled
- **Transport & Logistics** — Swiss Post Democratizes Kafka Usage, Growing to 5x More Apps — customer-stories/how-swiss-post-governs-democratizes-kafka-usage — 60 → 300+ apps, 800+ users
- **Agriculture & IoT** — Accelerating Smart Farming Innovation with Amazon MSK — customer-stories/accelerating-smart-farming-innovation-with-conduktor-and-amazon-msk — 10x utilization, 70% faster provisioning
- **Aviation** — European Airline Secures Cloud Migration with End-to-End Encryption — customer-stories/leading-european-airline-migrates-kafka-to-confluent-cloud-with-conduktor — 25 clusters, 170 apps, 2,000 users
- **Banking** — Securing Instant Payments for Banks Across Europe — customer-stories/securing-kafka-banking-financial-services — PCI DSS, VISA, MasterCard compliant
- **Financial Services** — Bitvavo Ensures DORA & MiCA Compliance for 1.5M+ Users — customer-stories/bitvavo-ensures-compliance-dora-mica — DORA, MiCA, GDPR compliance achieved
- **iGaming** — OpenTag Simplifies Kafka for Gaming Platform — customer-stories/opentag — Reduced DevOps workload
- **Retail** — Fortune 500 Retailer Transforms Kafka Operations — customer-stories/one-hour-kafka-onboarding-retail-streaming-operations — Onboarding: 3 weeks → 1 hour

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## FAQ

**Can Conduktor run in air-gapped environments?**

Yes. Conduktor supports full offline installations with local registries. You can install and update all components without external network access.

**Which clouds are supported?**

Conduktor runs on AWS, Azure, GCP, or on-prem. It integrates with managed Kafka services such as AWS MSK, Confluent Cloud, and Aiven, as well as open-source clusters.

**How long does deployment take?**

A simple setup is ready in minutes using Helm or Docker Compose. Production-grade installs, including HA, external identity providers, and security managers, complete in days.

**Does Conduktor support SSO and granular access control?**

Yes. Conduktor supports OIDC and LDAP synchronization. Access rules apply at the user, group, or application level and can be automated through APIs.

**Can we integrate with Vault or KMS?**

Yes. Conduktor integrates natively with HashiCorp Vault and all major KMS providers (AWS, Azure, GCP). Secrets can be injected through environment variables, mounted volumes, or API calls.

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