Case Study: Markel accelerates DevOps and CI/CD in the cloud with CloudBees CI

Markel cuts Jenkins build times from 25 minutes to 4 with CloudBees Feature Management

Markel, a global specialty insurance and reinsurance holding company, faced significant challenges in managing its sprawling and inefficient on-premise Jenkins infrastructure. Their DevOps team was overwhelmed by integration requests and lacked visibility, which hindered their ability to support developers effectively. To overcome this, they turned to CloudBees Feature Management and implemented CloudBees CI to move their operations to the cloud.

The solution involved deploying CloudBees CI on Microsoft Azure using Kubernetes, which provided automated scaling and real-time visibility into their CI/CD processes. This migration resulted in dramatic performance improvements, such as reducing a critical codebase's build time from 25 minutes to just 4 minutes. The measurable impact included saving thousands of engineering hours monthly and gaining the scalability to handle peak workloads, ultimately modernizing their entire DevOps environment.

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