Case Study: Morningstar achieves continuous delivery and 80% reduced administration overhead with CloudBees Jenkins Platform

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Morningstar, a global provider of independent investment research serving investors and financial professionals, develops web and cloud applications with a distributed engineering organization of about 1,000 people. Rapid growth exposed inconsistent build and deployment practices, heavy administration from maintaining many Jenkins masters, weak access controls, slow manual deployments, and limited support—making it hard to scale CI/CD and a DevOps culture.

Morningstar standardized on the CloudBees Jenkins Platform, consolidating 20 masters into one, implementing role-based access control, and automating tests and deployments (Selenium, SonarQube, Build Breaker). The changes enabled frequent, reliable deployments and cross-team collaboration, cut infrastructure administration overhead by ~80%, reduced support resolution time by ~70%, shortened release cycles, and reduced a 6‑hour manual server update to about 40 minutes.

Morningstar

Christopher Jones

DevOps Manager