Case Study: Kiabi achieves weekly releases and faster, more reliable deployments with XebiaLabs' XL Deploy

Accelerating Continuous Delivery, Improving Data Security, and Bringing Reliability to Deployments

Kiabi, a leading French value‑fashion retailer with one of Europe’s top e‑commerce sites, faced slow, error‑prone releases: deployments were a blocking step, teams used homemade, hard‑to‑maintain scripts with inconsistent tools and unclear responsibilities, and there was no rollback or reliable configuration management across their ~50 Linux servers running Java/Tomcat/Oracle.

Kiabi implemented XebiaLabs XL Deploy (integrated with Jenkins/Maven after a two‑month proof‑of‑concept) as the single deployment and configuration reference. The change cut the release cycle from six weeks to one, reduced deployment time from about two hours to 45 minutes, improved reliability and data security, provided a centralized configuration repository, and won full adoption by development and production teams.

Kiabi

Johan Blondeau

Web architect