Use case
CI/CD Workflows for Semantic Release
- Lavish Gupta
About the Customer
CyvexTech is a platform dedicated to protecting the software supply chain. It provides code assurance, tamper-proof evidence documentation, exceptional visibility, anomaly detection, seamless operation, and other services. CyvexTech has created a unique platform that utilizes cutting-edge concepts and frameworks to deliver uncompromising security to code artifacts throughout the entire software lifecycle, from production to delivery.
Customer Challenge
CyvexTech faced inefficiencies in its release management process, relying on manual intervention for versioning, change log generation, and release creation.
The manual processes led to potential errors, increased time for releases, and inconsistencies in deployment. Additionally, the existing pipeline lacked automation and a standard approach, leading to scalability and reliability challenges as their services grew.
Without addressing these challenges, CyvexTech would face increased deployment times, reduced software reliability, and higher operational costs. These inefficiencies posed a risk to the company’s ability to maintain rapid and secure delivery of updates, directly impacting its service quality.
Solution
IAMOPS implemented a CI/CD workflow tailored to Semantic Release, leveraging AWS services like ECR (Elastic Container Registry) and EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) to fully automate the release and deployment pipeline.
The solution ensured versioning, Docker image creation, Helm package generation, and deployment processes were automated and standardized. This approach significantly reduced manual intervention, allowing CyvexTech to scale its services more efficiently.
The solution was broken down into three key workflows:
- Semantic Release Workflow: Triggered manually, this stage analyzes commit messages, determines the next version, generates a change log, creates a GitHub release, and tags the repository accordingly.
- Helm Build Workflow: Upon the release tag creation, the workflow builds Docker images, updates the image tag in Helm values.yaml, and pushes the images and Helm package to AWS ECR.
- Helm Deploy Workflow: The final stage involves manually dispatching the Helm package to the Kubernetes cluster, using custom values for deployment.
Semantic Release Workflow
Results & Benefits
The CI/CD workflows implemented by IAMOPS delivered significant improvements for CyvexTech :
- Automated Versioning: Reduced manual efforts for version control, leading to fewer errors and improved traceability.
- Improved Consistency: Standardized build and deployment workflows resulted in consistent releases across environments.
- Faster Time-to-Market: By automating most of the release management processes, CyvexTech was able to expedite its release cycles.
- Enhanced Reliability: The automation reduced the risk of deployment errors, enhancing overall service reliability.
About IAMOPS
IAMOPS is a full DevOps suite company that supports technology companies to achieve intense production readiness.
Our mission is to ensure that our clients’ infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines are scalable, mitigate failure points, optimize performance, ensure uptime, and minimize costs.
Our DevOps suite includes DevOps Core, NOC 24/7, FinOps, QA Automation, and DevSecOps to accelerate overall exponential growth.
As an AWS Advanced Tier Partner and Reseller, we focus on two key pillars: Professionalism by adhering to best practices and utilizing advanced technologies, and Customer Experience with responsiveness, availability, clear project management, and transparency to provide an exceptional experience for our clients.
