CI/CD Pipeline Setup

We design and build your CI/CD pipeline end to end — GitLab CI or GitHub Actions, self-hosted or managed runners, staged environments, and a deploy path that goes from a green pipeline to production without anyone running a manual command.

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What you get

  • Pipeline config for GitLab CI or GitHub Actions, written into your repo (not a black box you can't edit)
  • Separate build, test, and deploy stages, with test failures blocking deploy
  • Runner setup — self-hosted for cost/control, or managed if you'd rather not administer them
  • One-command rollback to the last known-good deploy
  • Secrets handled via the platform's native secret store, never committed to the repo
  • A runbook explaining exactly how the pipeline works, so your team isn't dependent on us to change it

Who it's for

Teams shipping to production by hand today — SSH-and-pray deploys, or a pipeline nobody fully understands anymore.

Typical engagement

One to two weeks for a single application; longer for a multi-service estate. We work in your repos, with daily updates.

How we approach this

We start by mapping how code moves today — branch strategy, environments, and every manual step between a commit and it reaching production — before writing a single pipeline stage. The pipeline itself is built incrementally: build and test first, gated deploy second, so you're never left without a working deploy path mid-migration.

Security & reliability

Secrets live in your CI platform's native secret store — GitLab CI variables or GitHub Actions secrets — never in a Dockerfile, environment file, or commit history. Deploy credentials are scoped per environment, so a compromised staging token can't touch production.

Monitoring & incident response

Every pipeline run reports pass/fail status back to the merge request, and failed deploys trigger the same alerting channel your team already watches — we don't add a new dashboard nobody checks.

Related case study

Built a GitHub Actions pipeline with blue-green deployments.

Zero-downtime releases

Frequently asked questions

Do you use GitLab CI or GitHub Actions?

Whichever your repo already lives on. We won't make you migrate platforms just to get CI/CD working.

What happens to our existing deploy scripts?

We read them first. Most of the time the logic they encode is correct and just needs to move into pipeline stages — we don't throw away working knowledge to start from a template.

Will this slow our team down while it's being built?

No — we build alongside your existing deploy process, not instead of it, and only cut over once the new pipeline has been proven on a real deploy.

What if we already have partial CI/CD in place?

We extend what's already correct rather than replacing it — most partial setups just need the missing stages (usually gated deploy and rollback), not a rebuild.