CI/CD pipeline implementation
Let OpsBR implement your CI/CD pipeline.
Let OpsBR implement your CI/CD pipeline.
Implementing CI/CD pipeline is not a trivial task but people tend to underestimate its impact. Just like other software engineering domains such as frontend or backend, better CI/CD pipeline requires specialized skills and should be implemented by an expert. OpsBR has strong expertise to do it because CI/CD pipeline is the center of operations. Why don’t you ask OpsBR to implement your CI/CD pipeline?
CI/CD pipeline’s main purpose is automation. Any software requires some operations to release the new version e.g. deployment for server side applications, or publishing for client side libraries. Normally people run these processes manually at the early stage of the software development. It is ok until they need to release frequently. But this comes more quickly than you thought because frequent (pre-)releasing is the most critical way to collect feedback earlier.
Then, your manual operations start impacting significantly to your development productivity. If each release operation takes 10 mins and you want to deploy 5 times per day, you need to spend 50 mins every day. These numbers typically increase as your product matures. Also, manual operations are error prune and you need to pay much more time if such error happens. The later you decide to automate these operations, the more difficult it takes to implement as the operations become complex.
It also affects to your release quality and overall reliability of your software because it includes testing. Again, human operations are error prune so that manual validation doesn’t guarantee quality much. Also, it is hard to scale since human resources are limited and people needs to narrow down the test scope.
Once CI/CD pipeline is set, the release operations including testing will be automated fully or partially and reduce these problems a lot. In addition, you can keep improving the pipeline itself just like your software e.g. adding more complicated testing, additional release targets, etc. without bothering more human resources each time.
Unlike business logic implementation, CI/CD pipeline requires general sense of operations to determine its requirements. However, most of software developers don’t have enough experience operations so that their CI/CD pipeline tends to be too simple, fragile, and incomplete.
Also, CI/CD pipeline implementation requires strong knowledge of lots of third party services like GitHub, AWS, etc. When you implement it, you have to make tons of good decisions about services outside your business logic but that’s different skill set from typical software development like data structure and algorithm.
Lastly, a badly implemented CI/CD pipeline would be pretty painful as your product matures. The pipeline should be designed and implemented nicely for your future growth, which isn’t an easy task for most of the developers because it requires experiences and talent for operations.
OpsBR has experienced with lots of production systems as their own products or their customers’ products and got best practices to build and operate CI/CD pipelines. The more we engage with CI/CD pipelines, the more we build our best practices. Our current strategies are like below:
By asking us to implement CI/CD pipeline, your development team can focus on your business while we build a ready-made CI/CD pipeline for you within a few weeks to months.