Case Study: Ancestry cuts deployment outages and boosts CI/CD governance with Harness

Ancestry Adds Consistency and Governance to Cut Downtime and Systems Onboarding Effort

Ancestry, the family history and consumer genomics company, needed to bring consistency and governance to its CI/CD processes as it scaled engineering and managed dozens of inconsistent Jenkins instances. To improve reliability and help reach 99.9% uptime, Ancestry turned to Harness, using its Continuous Delivery and GitOps capabilities to standardize deployments across teams.

With Harness, Ancestry created a governed pipeline standard, made canary deployments the default, and enabled centralized changes that could be applied across all pipelines at once. Harness helped Ancestry onboard 350 systems in the first year, cut systems onboarding effort by 78%, reduce deployment-related production outages by 50%, and increase deployment velocity by 3x.

Ancestry

Ken Angell

Principal Architect