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How Lobster Cut Manual Work by 90% and Scaled 5x with CloudBolt

Lobster, Germany’s pioneering data integration software company, is known for its motto “connecting people and data for a better future.” Its data platform connects systems without coding, automates workflows, and harnesses insights to simplify its 2,000+ global customers’ data journey. 

Results at a glance

90% less manual work6x faster provisioning
30K jobs/month @ 90% successScaled operations 5x with +2 engineers
Company-wide adoption across teams

“CloudBolt was accessible yet powerful—it let us use the tools we already knew.”
– Ludwig Müller, Team Lead, Cloud Management, Lobster Data

However, internally, the process of provisioning and managing infrastructure was anything but simple. The documentation was inconsistent, automation unreliable, and essential knowledge lived in a single engineer’s head. As demand grew and CentOS 7’s end-of-life approaching, Lobster’s cloud operations team needed to modernize—fast. 

What began as a focused effort to streamline provisioning evolved into a company-wide transformation. With CloudBolt, Lobster moved to a standardized, blueprint-based model that reduced manual work by 90%, eliminated configuration drift, and enabled safe self-service across departments. “Our initial goal was just to install our software in the cloud,” said Ludwig Müller, Lobster’s cloud management team lead. “What we got in return from CloudBolt unlocked way more than we ever expected.” 

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