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DevOps (CI/CD, Pipelines, Infrastructure as Code)

Opinionated pipelines, GitOps/IaC, and observable releases for speed with safety.

Ship faster and safer with opinionated DevOps practices: CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), automated quality gates, and observable releases. We standardize how code moves from branch → build → test → deploy, and how infrastructure is defined, reviewed, and promoted with the same rigor as application code.

Key Benefits

Faster Cycles: Trunk-based, parallel checksFaster Cycles:

Safer Releases: Quality gates, auto-rollbackSafer Releases:

Environment Parity: Versioned infra, seeded dataEnvironment Parity:

Observability: Release markers & dashboardsObservability:

Compliance-Ready: Auditable evidence & SBOMsCompliance-Ready:

What We Deliver

  1. CI Pipelines: PR checks, static analysis, unit tests, package security/health, artifact creation & signing.
  2. CD Pipelines: environment promotion (sandbox → staging → prod), approvals where required, zero-downtime strategies and fast rollback paths.
  3. Infrastructure as Code: versioned environments, reusable modules, drift detection, reviewable diffs.
  4. Environment Parity: consistent configs, seeded test data, and reproducible deploys.
  5. Observability: release, runtime, and business KPIs wired into dashboards.

Pipeline Blueprint (CI/CD)

  1. Source & Branching: trunk-based or short-lived feature branches with protected PR gates.
  2. Build: deterministic builds, dependency locking, artifact signing & provenance (SBOM).
  3. Test Stages: unit → integration → smoke/E2E; parallelization to keep feedback fast.
  4. Deploy: blue/green, canary, or rolling; automatic rollback on health criteria.
  5. Promotion: tag → release notes → staged promotion with auditable evidence

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

  1. Declarative Environments: networks, compute, data stores, and policies captured in code.
  2. GitOps Flow: plan → human review → apply → verify; rollback via version control.
  3. Modules & Libraries: paved-road modules for common patterns to reduce drift.
  4. Drift & Compliance: detect/alert on configuration drift; exportable change logs for audits.

Release Strategies

  1. Blue/Green: switch traffic with instant fallback.
  2. Canary: progressive exposure tied to metrics/error budgets.
  3. Feature Flags: decouple deploy from release for safer iterations.
  4. Maintenance Windows (when needed): scripted checks and communication hooks.

Security & Compliance by Design

  1. Secrets Management: rotation, least-privilege scopes, audit trails.
  2. Policy as Code: enforce naming, tagging, network, and encryption standards.
  3. Artifact Integrity: signed artifacts and SBOMs; dependency health gates.
  4. Evidence: exportable pipeline logs, approvals, and change records for TX-RAMP, HIPAA, and PCI alignment.

Observability & Operations

  1. Metrics/Logs/Traces: standardized labels; release markers for quick correlation.
  2. SLOs & Error Budgets: alerting tied to burn rate and rollback automation.
  3. Dashboards: pipeline health (success rate, duration), deployment frequency, lead time, and change failure rate.

Cost & Performance

  1. Right-Sizing: autoscaling and workload scheduling to meet SLOs at lower cost.
  2. Build Efficiency: caching and parallelization to minimize cycle time.
  3. Telemetry: cost and performance surfaced alongside release KPIs.

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