Case Study: Zywave achieves consistent, secure, auditable deployments with Octopus Deploy

How Zywave scales consistently and securely with Octopus Deploy

Zywave, a leading insurance technology company used by more than 5,000 agencies and 95 of the top 100 US firms, needed a consistent, secure deployment process as it modernized from IIS to Kubernetes, absorbed multiple acquisitions, and doubled the number of development teams. Having used Octopus Deploy for over 10 years, Zywave’s priorities were stronger auditability, access control, easy onboarding for new teams, and an everything-as-code approach to scale across diverse stacks.

Octopus Deploy provided that foundation through projects, step templates, Config as Code, environments, variable sets and feeds, plus Terraform for less-frequent setup tasks—letting Zywave isolate stacks, control access, and keep detailed audit trails. The result was repeatable, reliable deployments, faster onboarding of new teams via reusable step templates, and improved compliance and visibility; up to 95% of Zywave’s activity now occurs inside Octopus projects, supporting secure scale and ongoing modernization.

Zywave

John Cruikshank

Vice President, Engineering