DevOps and CI/CD in Production: What to Set Up First
"We have DevOps" often means "one admin provisions servers by hand." For a product that ships more than once a month, you need a pipeline: commit → tests → artifact → staging → prod with rollback.
Startup Priorities (4–6 Weeks)
- Repository and branches — trunk-based or GitFlow, protected main.
- CI — lint, unit tests, Docker image build on every PR.
- Staging — prod-like topology, anonymized data.
- CD — deploy by tag, manual approve on prod.
- Monitoring — uptime, 5xx, p95; alerts to Telegram/PagerDuty.
- Runbook — who does what when things fail at night.
Metrics Worth Tracking
- Deployment frequency and lead time for changes (DORA).
- MTTR after an incident.
- Change failure rate — how many releases you roll back.
NineLab sets up CI/CD and operates infrastructure: DevOps services, packages on pricing (audit from ₽35k, retainer from ₽60k/mo). This article complements production monitoring metrics.
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FAQ for this topic
With a pilot: one non-critical service, baseline policies, observability, and a clear release path—otherwise complexity eats velocity.
No: canaries, DB migrations, rollbacks, and windows for stateful parts still matter.
In a vault with rotation, audit, and least privilege—not in git or plain env everywhere.
Per-service SLOs, queue lag, replication lag, deploy failures, cluster headroom—tied to user journeys.
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