Case Study: Retraced reports 200% ROI on Doppler with a 3-month payback
Key results
The challenge
Retraced, a fashion supply-chain traceability company, relied on scattered .env files across roughly 20 developers, making a single .env change an all-day effort. Rotating Kubernetes secrets manually took about 30 minutes.
The solution
Retraced adopted Doppler's Secrets Manager with its Kubernetes integration and operator, the CLI (doppler run command), a Terraform integration and secret-rotation capabilities to centralize secrets and access controls.
The results, in context
According to the case study, Retraced reported a 200% ROI with a three-month payback period and an 80% reduction in onboarding time after eliminating .env files. Kubernetes secret rotation dropped from about 30 minutes to 15 seconds, and .env changes that had taken roughly eight hours across developers became instant.