Case Study: MakerBot Saves $275K and Simplifies Deployments with Harness

MakerBot Replaced Spinnaker & Saved $275,000

MakerBot, a global leader in 3D printing, was struggling with a complex CI/CD setup built on Spinnaker. As Lead Cloud Architect Erik Ahrend spent hours each day troubleshooting broken deployments, the team faced long deployment delays, limited self-service, and a lack of governance features like RBAC and audit trails. MakerBot turned to Harness Continuous Delivery & GitOps to simplify its software delivery process.

Harness implemented self-service deployments, pipeline-as-code reuse, advanced RBAC controls, Datadog and Jira integrations, and templated canary deployments. With Harness, MakerBot reduced CI/CD costs by $275,000 annually, eliminated the need for 3 hours of daily babysitting, and was deploying about 15 times per day within four months, with a low failure rate of 8%.

MakerBot

Erik Ahrend

Lead Cloud Architect