Case Study: Staples achieves self-service cloud provisioning and cuts deployment cycles from weeks to hours with Puppet

Staples Enabling DevOps & Self-Service Cloud Provisioning with Puppet

Staples, the world’s largest office-products retailer with a large private cloud supporting internal development teams, needed to automate cloud management, create self-service provisioning, and dramatically speed deployment cycles so developers could get environments on demand without overburdening IT.

Staples implemented Puppet Enterprise (supported by professional services and training) to standardize infrastructure-as-code, build a PaaS-like provisioning UI, and automate common ops tasks across teams. As a result, provisioning and deployments moved from weeks to hours and from days to minutes, developers can self-provision environments, routine work is automated, and IT now delivers faster, more stable releases while gaining credibility across the organization.

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Jeff Quaintance

Senior Cloud and Automation Engineer