Case Study: Staples achieves faster, self-service VM provisioning with Puppet

Staples cuts deployment cycles from weeks to minutes with Puppet

Staples, one of the world's largest office supplies makers, faced a challenge in managing its thousands of VMs across multiple data centers. They needed to optimize their private cloud by providing internal development teams with self-service provisioning capabilities to reduce lengthy deployment cycles and automate repetitive tasks. To address this, they chose Puppet Enterprise for configuration management.

By implementing Puppet Enterprise, Staples automated cloud management tasks and created a self-service provisioning interface. This solution cut their deployment cycles from weeks to minutes and expanded PaaS-like capabilities beyond just sysadmins to development teams. Puppet also helped improve their code flow from development to production by instituting governance and a center of excellence for automation.

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