DevOps and CI/CD: ship faster, break less
Gjethe sets up DevOps for development teams: CI/CD pipelines that lint, test and build every change, preview environments for each pull request, containerised builds, infrastructure as code with Terraform or Pulumi, safe release strategies and monitoring that tells you quickly when something goes wrong.
- Free first consultation
- Written quote for your project
- Flexible payment milestones
At a glance
- Pipelines
- GitHub Actions, GitLab CI
- Infrastructure
- Terraform, Pulumi, containers
- Releases
- Previews, blue-green, canary
- Visibility
- Monitoring and alerting
Definition
What is DevOps & CI/CD?
DevOps is a set of practices that combine software development and operations so teams can deliver changes quickly and reliably. CI/CD, continuous integration and continuous delivery or deployment, is its core: every change is automatically tested and prepared for release.
Manual deployments are slow, stressful and inconsistent: each one is a small gamble that depends on someone remembering every step. Automated pipelines make releases routine. Every change is tested the same way, reviewed on a live preview, deployed with one click or automatically, and rolled back just as easily if needed. The result is a team that releases more often with fewer incidents.
Who is it for?
Growing development teams
More developers mean more changes colliding. Automated checks keep the main branch healthy.
Startups shipping fast
You release often and need confidence that a quick fix won't break something else.
Teams with manual deployments
Releases happen over SSH or FTP, depend on one person and take hours.
Companies moving to containers
You want consistent environments from laptop to production.
What's included, and what you keep
What's included
- Pipeline audit and design
- Linting, type checks and automated tests on every change
- Build and artifact management
- Preview environments per pull request
- Docker images and container registry
- Infrastructure as code
- Staging and production environments
- Release strategies: blue-green or canary
- Database migration automation
- Secrets and environment variable management
- Monitoring, logs and alerting
- Documentation and team onboarding
What you receive
Handed over at the end. Yours to keep.
- Working CI/CD pipelines in your repositories
- Infrastructure code for each environment
- Release and rollback runbook
- Monitoring dashboards and alert rules
- Developer onboarding guide
What does a CI/CD pipeline do?
Commit
Push or open a pull request
Test
Lint, unit and end-to-end tests
Build
Container image or static bundle
Preview
A live URL for every branch
Deploy
Blue-green or canary to production
Release strategies compared
| Strategy | How it works | Good for |
|---|---|---|
| Rolling | Instances updated a few at a time | Simple services with backward-compatible changes |
| Blue-green | New version runs alongside the old; traffic switches at once | Instant rollback and zero-downtime releases |
| Canary | A small share of traffic gets the new version first | Catching problems with real users before full rollout |
| Feature flags | Code ships switched off and is enabled gradually | Separating deployment from release |
What should a team measure?
Four delivery measures, popularised by the DORA research programme, give a balanced view: how often you deploy, how long a change takes to reach production, how often deployments cause failures, and how quickly you recover when they do.
We set up pipelines and monitoring so these numbers can be seen rather than guessed. Improving them usually comes from small, steady changes (faster tests, smaller pull requests, automatic rollbacks) rather than a big re-platforming.
What a healthy pipeline checks on every change
- Code formatting and linting
- Type checks
- Unit and integration tests
- Build succeeds for every environment
- Dependency vulnerability scan
- End-to-end tests on a preview deployment
- Bundle size or performance budget
Benefits teams notice first
Fewer broken releases
Problems are caught by automated checks before they reach production.
Review on a real URL
Designers and clients see every change on a preview link before it ships.
One-click rollback
A bad release is reversed in moments instead of a late-night scramble.
Easier onboarding
New developers follow the pipeline instead of learning tribal deployment steps.
Infrastructure as code, in plain terms
Instead of setting up servers, databases and networks by clicking through a cloud console, infrastructure as code describes them in text files kept in your repository. Changes go through the same review as application code, and any environment can be recreated exactly from those files.
That makes staging truly match production, turns disaster recovery into a repeatable command, and shows who changed what and when. For teams that have built their infrastructure by hand, we codify what exists first, without changing it, then improve it safely.
How DevOps & CI/CD works, step by step
Every step has a clear output you can review. Timing is agreed in your quote.
- 1
Audit
How code is tested, built and released today, and where it hurts.
- 2
Design
Target pipeline, environments and release strategy agreed with your team.
- 3
Automate checks
Linting, type checks and tests running on every pull request.
- 4
Automate delivery
Builds, previews and deployments, with infrastructure as code.
- 5
Observe
Monitoring and alerts so failures are spotted quickly.
- 6
Hand over
Documentation and a walkthrough so the team owns the set-up.
Tools, and what shapes your quote
Pricing is based on your project and agreed in your quote. These are the things that move it.
| Factor | Why it matters |
|---|---|
| Number of services and repositories | Each needs its own pipeline and configuration. |
| Existing test coverage | Pipelines are only as good as the tests; writing missing tests adds work. |
| Infrastructure scope | Codifying existing hand-built infrastructure takes time. |
| Release strategy | Canary and blue-green set-ups need more infrastructure than simple deploys. |
| Compliance | Approval gates, audit trails and change records add requirements. |
| Area | Tools |
|---|---|
| CI/CD | GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI |
| Containers | Docker, Docker Compose, ECS, Cloud Run, Kubernetes (when needed) |
| Infrastructure as code | Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation |
| Quality | ESLint, TypeScript, Vitest, Playwright, dependency scanning |
| Observability | Grafana, Prometheus, Sentry, Datadog |
Common mistakes to avoid
What we see go wrong most often, and how a good project avoids it.
Slow pipelines
If checks take too long, developers bypass them. Keep feedback fast with caching and parallel jobs.
Flaky tests
Tests that fail randomly teach the team to ignore failures. Fix or quarantine them.
Secrets in repositories
Credentials committed to code leak sooner or later. Use a secret manager.
Deploying without a rollback plan
Every release strategy needs a quick, rehearsed way back.
Frequently asked questions
What is CI/CD?
Continuous integration (CI) automatically tests every code change. Continuous delivery or deployment (CD) automatically prepares or releases changes that pass. Together they make releases routine instead of risky.
We're a small team, is this overkill?
A basic pipeline that runs tests and deploys previews is quick to set up and pays for itself even for two developers. We size the set-up to your team.
Can you work with our existing infrastructure?
Yes. We usually start by codifying what you already have, then improve it step by step without downtime.
Do we need Kubernetes?
Usually not. Managed container services cover most needs with far less to operate. Kubernetes makes sense for larger platforms with many services.
Can you add tests if we don't have any?
Yes. We start with tests for the most critical flows and build coverage over time, so the pipeline protects what matters most first.
How do database changes get deployed?
Through versioned migration scripts run by the pipeline, with backups beforehand and a plan for reversing them.
Can deployments require approval?
Yes. Production deployments can wait for a named person's approval, with a record of who approved what.
Do you support GitLab and Bitbucket?
Yes. We work with GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket pipelines.
Will our developers need training?
We document the pipeline and walk the team through it. Most developers only notice that their pull requests now get automatic checks and previews.
Who maintains the pipelines?
Your team, with our documentation, or us, on a maintenance plan.
Can pipelines deploy mobile apps too?
Yes. Pipelines can build iOS and Android apps, run tests and upload builds to TestFlight and Google Play testing tracks automatically.
How do you handle environment-specific configuration?
Through environment variables and secrets managed per environment, so the same build runs in staging and production with the right settings and no credentials in code.
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- What happens next
- 1You tell us what you need
- 2We aim to reply within 24 hours with questions
- 3You get a written quote for your project