Case Study: WatchGuard achieves rapid, secure CI/CD and 95% faster onboarding with CloudBees Core

WatchGuard Spurs Innovation with Shift to DevOps and Continuous Delivery

WatchGuard, a provider of enterprise-grade network and wireless security for small and mid-sized businesses, needed to move away from a traditional waterfall development model to accelerate innovation and speed delivery of new security products. The company faced a cultural and technical challenge to adopt agile and DevOps practices while maintaining security, scalability and quality.

WatchGuard implemented CI/CD and DevOps practices powered by CloudBees Core (CloudBees Jenkins), using an everything‑as‑code approach, RBAC, Docker-based immutable executors and multibranch pipelines. The change delivered measurable gains: large projects now finish in weeks instead of months, new teams onboard 95% faster (about four hours vs. two weeks), security lapses are avoided, enterprise support was gained, and the company strengthened its competitive position.

WatchGuard

Jack Waters

Senior Vice President of Engineering