Case Study: Office Depot achieves faster time-to-market and reduced administrative overhead with CloudBees Core

Office Depot Enables Strategic Transformation with DevOps

Office Depot, amid a strategic shift from an office-products retailer to a business services and technology provider for SMBs, faced mounting operational friction: unmanaged Jenkins instances, plugin incompatibilities and manual tool administration were causing downtime, long release cycles and diverting engineers from innovation. The company needed to increase automation and reduce administrative overhead so teams could deliver new services faster.

To address this, Office Depot adopted a DevOps approach using CloudBees Core on Kubernetes to centralize Jenkins masters, automate repetitive tasks and streamline operations. The platform cut master setup from about a week to minutes, simplified multi-person release processes to button clicks, reduced administrative burden by roughly 50%, and is projected to save about $7K per developer per year—equivalent to roughly 704 days gained for innovation annually.

Office Depot

Nick Sbordone

Director of IT and Digital Platform Engineering