CI/CD automation: from 2 hours to 10 minutes per deploy

Client

E-commerce startup, 5-person engineering team

Challenge

  • Manual deployment took 2 hours
  • Frequent release errors
  • No fast rollback path
  • Required: CI/CD automation, GitOps, fast rollback

Solution

  1. Self-hosted GitLab
  2. GitLab CI pipeline (Build β†’ Test β†’ Deploy)
  3. Managed Kubernetes in Yandex Cloud
  4. Flux CD for GitOps

Technologies

GitLab
GitLab
Docker
Docker
Kubernetes
Kubernetes
Helm
Helm
Flux CD
Flux CD

Results

βœ… Deploy time: from 2 hours to 10 minutes (12x)
βœ… Errors: βˆ’90%
βœ… Deploy frequency: from 1/week to 10+/day
βœ… Rollback time: from 1 hour to 2 minutes

Architecture

graph LR A[GitLab CI] --> B[Harbor] B --> C[Flux CD] C --> D[Kubernetes]

Duration

5 days

Cost

from $500