CI/CD Foundation
CI/CD Foundation.
Who it’s for
Teams whose deploys are slow, flaky, or scary. The symptom is usually social before it is technical: one person is trusted to release, releases cluster right before the weekend, and nobody wants to be the one who ships ahead of a long one.
That is not a discipline problem. It is a system that makes the safe thing expensive.
What’s included
| pipelines | Hardened GitHub Actions — pinned actions, least-privilege tokens, reproducible runners |
|---|---|
| infrastructure | Terraform for everything that exists. No ClickOps, no console drift |
| environments | Ephemeral previews per pull request, torn down on merge |
| secrets | Managed, rotated, and never resident in a pipeline log |
| deploys | Audit-trailed end to end: who, what, when, from which commit |
| safety | Rollback path and an observability baseline that exists before you need it |
The outcome
Safe deploys in under fifteen minutes. Any developer on the team can ship, including the one who joined last month.
The second outcome is the one you buy this for later: every control is now something a machine did, which means every control can produce its own evidence. That is what the Compliance Retainer runs on.
Where this has run
Two thousand physical hosts operated by four engineers, Terraform only. CI from sixty minutes to six. Fifty percent faster builds, roughly ninety-five engineer-days returned per year.
One codebase shipping IL2 through IL5, commercial cloud and air-gapped on-premises, by an identical process. A firmware installer that took 240 hours of manual work, rebuilt as an idempotent one-shot.
What it costs, and how it starts
| foundation | Starts at $18,000. Typical engagement $18,000–$35,000 |
|---|---|
| infra review | $1,500 fixed fee, one week. Current-state map, scoping document, and a straight answer on whether you need Foundation, the Retainer, or neither |
| what sets the number | Cloud and on-prem footprint, how many pipelines exist today, and the impact level you have to hold |
The review is the scope, and it is the filter: you keep the findings whether or not you hire us for the build. The Foundation number is quoted against that document, not against a guess.
We don’t touch business logic. We make platform and compliance boringly predictable.