Why We Rebuilt Our Entire CI/CD Pipeline from Scratch
After three months of growing pains, we realized our deployment process was the bottleneck. Here is how we rebuilt it from the ground up.
When you scale from 2 engineers to 5, and from 3 active projects to 12, the duct-tape solutions you relied on in the beginning start to fail. And they do not fail quietly they fail loudly, right when you are trying to push a critical hotfix on a Friday afternoon.
“Our previous pipeline was a mix of manual scripts, basic Vercel deployments, and hope.”
Our previous pipeline was a mix of manual scripts, basic Vercel deployments, and hope. It worked when we were small, but as our infrastructure needs grew more complex, we were spending almost 20% of our week just managing deployments.
We chose GitHub Actions as the orchestrator because it sits right where the code lives. No context switching. By containerizing everything with Docker and orchestrating with Kubernetes, we achieved true environment parity.
Our deployment time went from 25 minutes of anxiety to 4 minutes of automated boredom. And in engineering, boredom is exactly what you want your deployments to be.