Case Study: Autodesk achieves faster, more reliable CI/CD deployments with CloudBees Feature Management

Autodesk cuts deploy times in half with CloudBees Feature Management

Autodesk, a leader in 3D design, engineering, and entertainment software, faced significant challenges with its CI/CD process. Its initial approach using a single Jenkins server was not scalable and became fragile, while a subsequent move to multiple servers created a distributed maintainability problem. The company needed a solution to balance scalability and maintainability to modernize its DevOps practices and turned to vendor CloudBees Feature Management for its CloudBees CI product.

CloudBees CI provided a centralized management layer on top of individual team servers, enabling Autodesk to enforce standards and plugin consistency while giving development teams the freedom to innovate. The solution, which runs on an Azure Kubernetes cluster, resulted in deploy times being roughly cut in half. The ability to deploy hotfixes and recover from incidents improved dramatically, dropping from hours down to minutes, providing a stable and reliable pipeline for the engineering teams.

Autodesk