CI/CD Pipeline Services

Accelerate Software Delivery with Automated Pipelines

In today’s competitive landscape, the speed and reliability with which you deliver software directly impacts your business outcomes. Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines automate the process of building, testing, and deploying code, transforming what was once a manual, error-prone release process into a streamlined, repeatable workflow. Teams that adopt mature CI/CD practices ship faster, catch defects earlier, and deploy with confidence.

Exodata designs, builds, and manages CI/CD pipelines across all major platforms. As an Azure Expert MSP and AWS Advanced Partner, we bring the cross-platform expertise needed to automate your entire software delivery lifecycle, from the moment a developer commits code to the instant it reaches production.

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CI/CD Platform Expertise

Azure DevOps

Azure DevOps provides a comprehensive suite of development tools including Azure Repos, Azure Pipelines, Azure Boards, and Azure Artifacts. Exodata leverages the full Azure DevOps ecosystem to create integrated delivery workflows.

• YAML-based pipelines for version-controlled, reviewable pipeline definitions
• Multi-stage pipelines with environment-specific configurations and approval gates
• Azure Artifacts integration for package management (NuGet, npm, Maven, Python)
• Service connections to Azure, AWS, Kubernetes clusters, and on-premises infrastructure
• Pipeline templates for reusable, standardized build and release patterns across teams

GitHub Actions

For teams that host their code on GitHub, GitHub Actions provides a native, event-driven automation platform that integrates directly with your repositories.

• Workflow authoring triggered by push, pull request, schedule, or custom events
• Reusable workflows and composite actions for organization-wide standardization
• Self-hosted runners for builds that require access to private networks or specialized hardware
• GitHub Packages integration for container image and package publishing
• GitHub Environments with protection rules, required reviewers, and deployment logs

Jenkins

Jenkins remains a powerful choice for organizations with complex build requirements or significant existing investment in Jenkins infrastructure.

• Pipeline as Code with Jenkinsfile definitions stored alongside application source code
• Shared libraries for reusable pipeline logic across projects and teams
• Plugin management and security hardening for Jenkins controllers and agents
• Migration planning for organizations looking to transition from Jenkins to cloud-native platforms
• Distributed builds using dynamic agents in Kubernetes, Azure, or AWS

GitLab CI/CD

GitLab CI/CD offers a single-platform experience with built-in source control, CI/CD, container registry, and security scanning.

• .gitlab-ci.yml pipeline definitions with stages, jobs, and dependencies
• Auto DevOps configuration for standardized build, test, and deploy workflows
• GitLab Runner deployment and management on Kubernetes or virtual machines
• Built-in security scanning including SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, and container scanning
• Review apps for automatic per-branch preview environments

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Pipeline Design and Architecture

Build Automation

Exodata designs build pipelines that compile, lint, and package your applications consistently across every commit.

• Dependency caching to accelerate build times and reduce compute costs
• Matrix builds for testing across multiple runtime versions, operating systems, or configurations
• Artifact management with versioned, immutable build outputs stored in registries and repositories
• Build notifications integrated with Slack, Microsoft Teams, or email for immediate feedback

Automated Testing

Testing is the backbone of a reliable CI/CD pipeline. Exodata integrates automated testing at every stage of the delivery process.

• Unit tests executed on every commit to catch regressions immediately
• Integration tests that validate interactions between services, databases, and external dependencies
• End-to-end tests using tools like Playwright, Cypress, or Selenium for UI validation
• Performance and load testing integrated into the pipeline to detect degradation before production
• Code quality gates using SonarQube, CodeClimate, or platform-native analysis tools

Security Scanning

Shift-left security by embedding scanning directly into your CI/CD pipelines.

• Static Application Security Testing (SAST) to identify vulnerabilities in source code
• Software Composition Analysis (SCA) to detect known vulnerabilities in open-source dependencies
• Container image scanning before images are pushed to registries
• Infrastructure as Code scanning to catch misconfigurations in Terraform, ARM templates, or CloudFormation
• Secret detection to prevent credentials and API keys from being committed to repositories

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Deployment Strategies

Deploying to production does not have to be a high-risk event. Exodata implements proven deployment strategies that minimize risk and enable rapid rollback.

Blue-Green Deployments

Maintain two identical production environments. Deploy the new version to the inactive environment, run validation checks, and switch traffic instantly. If anything goes wrong, switch back in seconds.

Canary Releases

Route a small percentage of production traffic to the new version while monitoring key metrics. Gradually increase traffic as confidence builds. Automatically roll back if error rates or latency exceed defined thresholds.

Rolling Deployments

Update instances incrementally, ensuring a minimum number of healthy instances are always serving traffic. This strategy works well for stateless services running on Kubernetes or behind load balancers.

Feature Flags

Decouple deployment from release by using feature flags to control which users see new functionality. Deploy code to production at any time and enable features independently through configuration.

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Environment Management

Infrastructure Provisioning

Exodata automates the creation of consistent, ephemeral environments for development, testing, staging, and production using Infrastructure as Code.

• On-demand environments spun up for feature branches and torn down after merge
• Environment parity ensuring staging mirrors production in configuration and scale
• Cost controls with automatic scheduling and resource cleanup policies

Configuration Management

• Secrets management using Azure Key Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, or HashiCorp Vault
• Environment-specific variables managed through pipeline variable groups or external configuration stores
• Configuration validation as part of the deployment pipeline to catch misconfigurations before they reach production

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Metrics and Continuous Improvement

Exodata helps you measure and improve your delivery performance using the DORA (DevOps Research and Assessment) metrics framework.

• Deployment frequency tracking to measure how often you ship to production
• Lead time for changes from commit to production deployment
• Change failure rate measuring the percentage of deployments that cause incidents
• Mean time to recovery (MTTR) tracking how quickly you restore service after a failure
• Pipeline dashboards providing real-time visibility into build health, test results, and deployment status

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Get Started with CI/CD

Whether you are building your first pipeline or optimizing an existing delivery workflow, Exodata has the expertise to help you ship faster and more reliably. Contact us to schedule a CI/CD maturity assessment and discover how automated pipelines can transform your software delivery process.