CI

Continuous Integration is the build and verify half of CI/CD. It runs on whatever version-control platform you already use — we meet you where you are rather than forcing a migration:

• GitHub → GitHub Actions
• GitLab → GitLab CI
• Azure DevOps → Azure Pipelines

The chosen provider is confirmed during the audit.

The pipeline

Every change to the application runs through the same stages, with each stage a quality gate that must pass before the next:

1. Lint & test — static checks and the test suite. Fast feedback, fail early.
2. Build the image — produce a versioned, immutable container image.
3. Scan — security gates before anything ships:
   • SAST (static application security testing) on the source.
   • Dependency scanning for known-vulnerable libraries.
   • Container image scanning (e.g. Trivy) for OS- and package-level CVEs.
4. Publish — push the image to the registry: ECR (AWS), ACR (Azure), or GHCR.
5. Bump the manifest — write the new image tag into the GitOps repository, where CD takes over.

lint & test ─► build image ─► scan (SAST · deps · image) ─► push to registry ─► bump GitOps manifest

Quality gates

• A failed test or a scan finding above the agreed severity blocks the build — broken or vulnerable images don’t reach the registry.
• Images are immutable and tagged (e.g. by commit), so what was tested is exactly what ships.
• The handoff to CD is a single, reviewed commit to Git — nothing is pushed straight to the cluster.

This is the front half of the “Safe CI/CD with automated rollbacks” promise; the CD layer provides the safe delivery and the rollbacks.

Representative stack

We adapt to your existing CI provider and add the missing gates rather than replacing tools that already work.