C4isr

Background: This international organization supports the development of advanced defense and intelligence electronics, including sensors, radars, electronic warfare and communication systems. In order to support multiple development environments, numerous languages, and to be adaptable for varying levels of technical expertise across the organization, this DevOps team chose to upgrade their control system using Jenkins.

Goals: Enabling all stakeholders with improved project visibility and faster feedback.

Solution & Results: The use of Jenkins allowed us to uncouple a lot of the stuff embedded into our development infrastructure. In doing so, we were able to treat each as a unique subject in its entirety, i.e. 'build scripts'. The key to our success was the ability to integrate it with ClearCase, an older version control system.

We migrated to Gitlab, which was a piece of cake since no changes were made to the process itself. The ongoing development of Jenkins plugins allowed us to integrate it easily into all of our internal systems. It also gave us support for bugs by providing visibility into issues once the integration was in progress.

Jenkins helped us achieve our goal relatively fast and at no cost! We achieved our primary goal to build unified visibility across the entire organization, plus we experienced other benefits, including:

• user engagement
• manager engagement
• faster delivery
• project confidence