CI/CD

GitOps

Platform Engineering

Updated Feb 2026

Automation & Platform Engineering

Production-grade CI/CD pipelines, GitOps delivery, and Internal Developer Platforms that help engineering teams ship faster with fewer manual steps.

Quick Answer

We build production-grade CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and Azure DevOps, implement GitOps delivery using Argo CD and Flux, and create Internal Developer Platforms on Backstage — so your developers can ship reliably without filing ops tickets. Most foundations are production-ready in 2–4 weeks.

What Automation Capabilities Do We Deliver?

End-to-end pipeline and platform engineering — from first commit to production deployment.

CI/CD at Scale

Production-grade pipelines with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and Azure DevOps. We migrate legacy Jenkins/Bamboo setups and design multi-repo strategies that scale with your team.

GitOps Delivery

Declarative deployments with Argo CD and Flux. Environment promotions, progressive delivery with canary and blue-green strategies, and full Git audit trails.

Internal Developer Platform

Backstage-powered self-service portals with golden paths, software templates, and service catalogs that let developers ship without waiting on ops.

Quality Gates & Testing

Automated code quality checks, SAST/DAST scanning, contract testing, and policy-as-code gates that prevent bad deploys before they reach production.

Release Management

SBOM generation, container image signing with Cosign, artifact provenance, and semantic versioning pipelines for compliance-ready releases.

Platform Engineering

Turnkey internal platforms with standardized toolchains, ephemeral environments, developer experience metrics, and self-service infrastructure provisioning.

30–70%

Faster Deploys

2–5×

Deploy Frequency

90%+

Pipeline Success

<5 min

Rollback Time

Why Choose HostingX for Automation?

Opinionated expertise, battle-tested patterns, and a relentless focus on developer velocity.

DORA Metrics Focus

Every engagement targets the four DORA metrics: deployment frequency, lead time for changes, change failure rate, and time to restore service.

Battle-Tested Templates

Reusable pipeline templates and Backstage scaffolders drawn from 50+ production deployments across startups, scale-ups, and enterprises.

Knowledge Transfer

Pair-programming sessions, recorded walkthroughs, and runbook documentation ensure your team owns and operates every pipeline we build.

Continuous Improvement

Monthly pipeline health reviews, throughput dashboards, and iterative optimization sprints that keep your delivery engine ahead of the curve.

How Do We Deliver Automation Projects?

Every automation engagement follows our proven four-phase methodology, refined over hundreds of successful platform transformations.

Phase 1: Pipeline Audit & Architecture

We start with a comprehensive audit of your existing delivery processes — current CI/CD tools, build times, test coverage, deployment frequency, change failure rate, and MTTR. This produces a DORA metrics baseline and a prioritized roadmap of improvements ranked by impact and effort. We document architectural decisions (ADRs) for every significant pipeline design choice so your team understands the reasoning behind each pattern.

Phase 2: Foundation Sprint

In the first 2–4 weeks, we build the core pipeline infrastructure: repository templates, CI/CD workflows with build caching and matrix strategies, security scanning integration (SAST, SCA, secrets), and environment promotion logic. Every template is parameterized and documented so your developers can self-serve new pipelines without waiting on platform teams.

Phase 3: Progressive Delivery

We layer on advanced delivery capabilities in iterative 2-week sprints: GitOps with Argo CD or Flux, blue/green and canary deployments, automated rollback based on SLO signals, performance gates, and SBOM generation. Each capability is introduced with documentation, training sessions, and developer onboarding material so adoption is smooth rather than disruptive.

Phase 4: Handover & Continuous Improvement

We hand over complete pipeline codebases, runbooks, and dashboards. We train your team through pair-programming sessions and shadowed on-call rotations. Post-handover, we track DORA metrics improvement against the baseline we established in Phase 1 — deploy frequency, lead time, change failure rate, and MTTR. Optional retainer support keeps pipelines evolving as your architecture grows.

Case Study Highlight

SaaS Company: Jenkins to GitHub Actions Migration

A 120-engineer SaaS company was running 47 Jenkins pipelines with a 62% build success rate and 45-minute average build times. We consolidated to 12 GitHub Actions workflow templates with matrix builds, build caching, and parallel test execution. Results after 8 weeks: 94% build success rate, 8-minute average builds, 3.2x higher deploy frequency, and the platform team reclaimed 20 hours/week previously spent on Jenkins maintenance. The entire pipeline codebase fits in a single repository with comprehensive documentation.

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about our automation and platform engineering services.

We work with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, and CircleCI. For teams still on Jenkins or Bamboo, we provide structured migration playbooks that move you to a modern platform with zero downtime and full pipeline parity.

GitOps uses Git as the single source of truth for both application code and infrastructure configuration. We implement Argo CD or Flux to continuously reconcile your cluster state with your Git repository. Environment promotions flow through pull requests, and progressive delivery strategies like canary releases and blue-green deployments reduce risk.

An Internal Developer Platform (IDP) is a self-service layer that abstracts away infrastructure complexity. We build IDPs with Backstage, offering golden paths (opinionated templates for new services), a service catalog, and self-service provisioning so developers can ship without filing tickets.

A production-ready CI/CD foundation typically takes 2–4 weeks, including pipeline design, security scanning integration, and environment promotion logic. We then iterate in 2-week sprints to add advanced capabilities like canary deployments, performance gates, and SBOM generation.

Yes. We specialize in migrating from Jenkins, Bamboo, TeamCity, and custom bash-based pipelines to GitHub Actions or GitLab CI. Our migration playbook includes audit, parallel-run validation, and incremental cutover to ensure zero disruption to existing release schedules.