CI pipeline
Lint, unit, integration and end-to-end tests on every push, with the slow ones parallelised so nobody learns to skip them.
Service 08 — DevOps
Deploys that
stop being
an event.
Integrate code into a shared repository and verify every integration through automated tests. Then ship it the same way, every time, without a Friday-night ceremony and a person who knows the incantation.
What is included
- CI pipeline
- CD to staging and production
- Infrastructure as code
- Containerisation
- Monitoring and alerting
- Rehearsed rollback and restore
If deploying is scary, that is a design problem
Teams that deploy rarely deploy badly. The release is big, the changes are entangled, the rollback is theoretical, and one person holds the knowledge. Everything about that is fixable, and fixing it is usually the highest-leverage engineering work available to a company.
We make releases small, automated and reversible. Every integration runs the test suite. Every deploy follows the same path to staging and production. Every rollback has been rehearsed. The goal is a deploy that is boring enough to do on a Tuesday afternoon.
Right-sized infrastructure
Not everybody needs Kubernetes. A great many products are better served by a well-configured server, a container, a managed database and a pipeline that works. We size the infrastructure to your actual traffic and your team's actual ability to operate it, and we tell you when the sophisticated answer would be a liability.
Deliverables
What you
actually get.
CD to staging and production
One path, fully automated, with approvals where you want them and an audit trail of who shipped what.
Infrastructure as code
Terraform or scripted provisioning, so the environment can be rebuilt from a repository rather than from memory.
Containerisation
Reproducible builds that run the same on a laptop, in CI and in production.
Monitoring and alerting
Uptime, latency, errors and cost on one dashboard, with alerts that page a human only when a human is needed.
Rehearsed rollback and restore
Both tested on a schedule. A backup you have never restored is a hope, not a backup.
Shapes of the work
Where this
usually lands.
| Maturity | Where teams usually are | What we add first |
|---|---|---|
| Manual | FTP or SSH, one person who knows how | Version control discipline and a scripted deploy |
| Scripted | A deploy script that mostly works | CI running tests before it is allowed to run |
| Automated | Pipeline on push, staging environment | Monitoring, alerting and a rehearsed rollback |
| Mature | Full CD, IaC, observability | Cost control, chaos drills, security scanning in CI |
Stack
What we build
this with.
We work in your stack when you have one. These are our defaults when the choice is ours.
DockerGitHub ActionsGitLab CITerraformAnsibleKubernetesNginxGrafanaPrometheusSentry
Questions
Before you
commit.
Do we need Kubernetes?
Probably not. It earns its complexity at real scale or with many services. Most products run better on containers and a managed platform, and we will say so even though it is the smaller invoice.
Can you work with our existing pipeline?
Yes. We start by making it visible — what runs, what it costs in time, where it fails — and then fix the worst part rather than replacing everything.
How do you handle secrets?
Never in the repository. A managed secret store, injected at deploy, scoped per environment, and rotatable without downtime.
What about cost?
Infrastructure cost is a first-class metric on the dashboard. We have cut client bills by more than our fee simply by right-sizing what was provisioned in a hurry.
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Tell us the problem, the users and the systems already in place. We will identify the right discovery or build step.