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Pipelines

Turn deployment from a ceremony into a reflex — automated, audited, secure, and fast enough that it's never the bottleneck between idea and production.

$ git push origin main → pipeline triggered
Checkout & Lint✓ 0.8s
Build Image✓ 42s
Unit Tests (847)✓ 1m 12s
Trivy Security Scan✓ 28s
Push & Sign (Sigstore)✓ 19s
ArgoCD Sync → Staging✓ 34s
✓ DEPLOYED → PRODsha: 3fa9c2b
Total pipeline time: 3m 16s
Capabilities

Every Pipeline Includes

We don't bolt on security and observability at the end. They're first-class citizens in every pipeline we build.

GitOps Automation

Everything lives in Git. ArgoCD or Flux continuously reconciles cluster state — every change reviewed, audited, and reversible within 60 seconds. Drift detection alerts before it becomes an incident.

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Security Scanning

SAST with SonarQube, container scanning with Trivy, secret detection, SBOM generation with Syft, and OPA policy gates. Pipeline blocks on any defined risk threshold — no exceptions, no bypasses.

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Progressive Delivery

Canary releases and blue-green deployments with Argo Rollouts. Automated promotion based on error rate and P99 latency SLOs. Rollback in under 60 seconds if thresholds are breached.

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Testing Gates

Unit, integration, and contract test suites baked into every stage. No merge to main without a fully passing test run — enforced by branch protection rules that can't be overridden by engineers.

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Artifact Management

Immutable container images tagged with Git SHA, OCI registries, Helm chart publishing to private registries, and SLSA provenance attestation via Sigstore for supply-chain security.

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DORA Metrics

Every deployment linked to a commit, PR, approver, and timestamp. Deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, and MTTR tracked automatically — dashboards from day one.

Measured Outcomes

What Clients Experience

Deploy frequency increase

Average improvement in deployment frequency seen within 90 days of a GTExpression CI/CD engagement going live.

85%
Reduction in pipeline duration

Parallelization, caching, and stage optimization typically cut build times from 40+ minutes to under 8 minutes.

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Manual production deployments

Every client we've worked with has eliminated manual production deployments entirely within the first engagement.

Our Process

How We Implement

01
Pipeline Audit

Assess your existing delivery process — manual steps, slow stages, security blind spots, missing gates. We baseline your current DORA metrics before recommending any changes.

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Architecture Design

Full pipeline topology: branching strategy, environment promotion paths, testing layers, approval gates, rollback mechanisms. Designed with your team — not handed down from above.

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Implementation & Migration

Build pipelines in your chosen toolchain — GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Tekton. Every step documented, code-reviewed, and tested. No black boxes, no magic scripts.

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Security Integration

Scanning, signing, and policy gates as native pipeline stages — integrated with your existing security tooling and vulnerability management workflow from day one.

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DORA Measurement & Handoff

Pipelines instrumented to auto-produce DORA metrics. Runbooks, team training, and full handoff. Your team ships confidently — we measure the improvement before we leave.

Technology Stack

Our CI/CD Stack

GitHub Actions
CI Platform
ArgoCD
GitOps / CD
Tekton
Pipeline Engine
Argo Rollouts
Progressive Delivery
SonarQube
Code Quality
Trivy
Security Scan
Helm
Packaging
Sigstore
Image Signing

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