Improving Deployment Frequency
by 50% and Reducing
Infrastructure Costs by 30%

For Milwaukee Tool’s DevOps transformation, Encora chose AWS due to its robust cloud services, scalability, and comprehensive suite of tools to streamline CI/CD pipelines effectively.  Through AWS, Encora introduced the below comprehensive suite of DevOps enhancements to revitalize Milwaukee Tool's infrastructure and CI/CD processes: 

• Cloud-Native Development: Proposed and implemented a shift of Jenkins to a containerized environment using Kubernetes and AWS Fargate. Jenkins Configuration as Code (JCasC) ensured version-controlled setups for easy rollback and configuration reproduction. 
• Continuous Integration (CI) & Continuous Deployment (CD): Created wrappers for executing automated QA tests across various devices, including Macs and Android phones, through Jenkins, facilitating a comprehensive automated testing suite. 
• DevSecOps Strategy & Planning: Empowered developers with a shared library approach to construct their CI/CD workflows autonomously, promoting a platform operations model that fosters innovation and self-sufficiency. 
• Release Management: Streamlined release management with Jenkins and introduced tagging automation for enhanced compliance and cost tracking, enabling detailed cost center creation and compliance checks. 

• Monitoring & Observability: Migrated to Datadog for serverless and container-based workloads, which offered unified logging, metrics, and traces across applications, providing a single pane of glass for observability. 

Encora's strategic intervention successfully transformed Milwaukee Tool's DevOps practices, leveraging AWS's robust cloud services to enhance CI/CD pipelines, improve cost visibility, and foster a culture of innovation and empowered leadership. The DevOps transformation led by Encora resulted in significant advancements for Milwaukee Tool: 

• Accelerated Development Cycles with the migration of Jenkins to Kubernetes and AWS Fargate, along with the introduction of JCasC. The deployment frequency was improved, streamlining the development process. 
• Improved compliance tracking with tagging automation and the introduction of Datadog for observability. Reduced overall infrastructure costs with more efficient resource utilization and monitoring.