Pipelines built, servers hardened, releases boring.
We build CI/CD pipelines from scratch, harden the server and the app, and run cloud infrastructure on AWS, Google Cloud, Azure and DigitalOcean — so changes go out in small, reversible steps and the team is told before users notice a problem.
CI/CD · Hardening · AWS · GCP · Azure · DigitalOceanIn a lot of small teams, deploying is a held breath. Someone copies files onto the live server by hand, late in the evening, hoping nothing in the new version conflicts with the old — and when it does, there is no clean way back. We replace that with a pipeline we build for you: code goes through automated checks, lands on a staging environment that mirrors production, and only then ships to live in an automated deploy that can be rolled back if it misbehaves. The deploy stops being an event and becomes a routine anyone on the team can run the same way twice.
Building the pipeline is half the job; hardening what it ships to is the other half. We close off the server and the application against the obvious ways in — a firewall that allows only the ports a service actually needs, SSH locked to keys, automatic security patching, TLS enforced, and the application configured to run as a least-privilege user rather than as root. Secrets — database passwords, API keys, tokens — move out of the code and into a managed store, injected at deploy time, so a leaked repository is not a leaked production. This is the unglamorous work that decides whether a small studio stays out of the breach reports.
We run this on the infrastructure that fits the project. Our own production releases follow a runbook precise enough that anyone on the team can run them the same way twice — that discipline holds whether the server is a shared host, a VPS, or cloud infrastructure on AWS, Google Cloud, Azure or DigitalOcean. We adapt to the platform you already have or the one the workload calls for: set it up, harden it, wire the deploy pipeline, and keep it running. Hosting and DevOps read as one coherent story rather than two disconnected bills. We will not move you to a bigger platform for capacity you do not use.
Monitoring is the half of DevOps that earns its keep quietly. We wire alerting so a service that stops responding, a disk filling up, or an error rate climbing reaches us before it reaches your customers as a complaint. Staging environments mean changes are seen working on a real URL before they touch production, and the written runbook means the knowledge of how to deploy, roll back and recover lives in a document the whole team can read — not only in the head of whoever set it up. That, more than any single tool, is what keeps a small studio able to ship safely.
The deliverables
- CI/CD pipeline creation
- Staging and automated deploys
- Server and application hardening
- Rollback and monitoring
- Secrets and least-privilege access
- AWS, GCP, Azure and DigitalOcean setup
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What clients ask
- Can you build a CI/CD pipeline from scratch?
- Yes — that is most of what this service is. We create the pipeline: automated checks on every change, a staging environment that mirrors production, an automated deploy to live, and a rollback path when a release misbehaves. If your team deploys by copying files onto the server by hand, this is the change that makes releases safe.
- What does "hardening" actually cover?
- Closing the obvious ways in: a firewall limited to the ports a service needs, SSH locked to keys, automatic security patching, TLS enforced, the app running as a least-privilege user, and secrets moved out of the code into a managed store and injected at deploy time. It is the unglamorous work that keeps a small site out of the breach reports.
- Which platforms do you work on?
- We adapt to whatever platform the project needs — AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, DigitalOcean, or shared and VPS hosting. We set up and harden the infrastructure under your own account, configure the deploy pipeline, staging, monitoring and access controls. We recommend the right-sized platform for the workload and move you up only when it genuinely makes sense, not by default.
- What happens if a deployment goes wrong?
- Changes ship in small, reversible steps, so a bad release rolls back instead of taking the site down. Monitoring alerts us early, and the deployment runbook documents exactly how to recover, so the response is a known procedure rather than a scramble.
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Write a few lines about the work — what you want built and the deadline you care about. We'll come back with a plain scope and a price, no sales call before there's something to talk about.