Automation
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CI/CD & DevOps
Modern software delivery demands continuous integration, automated testing, and frictionless deployments. Branch Boston builds resilient pipelines that empower your teams to innovate without bottlenecks.
We don’t approach CI/CD as a collection of disconnected tools—we design comprehensive delivery pipelines that span every stage from code commit through production release. Our DevOps engineers build automation that eliminates manual handoffs, reduces errors, and accelerates your path to production while maintaining security and governance. With our CI/CD services, you’ll gain a partner committed to transforming how your organization delivers software.
GitHub Actions Expertise
GitHub Actions has revolutionized CI/CD with its seamless integration into the development workflow. Our specialists design and implement sophisticated GitHub Actions pipelines that maximize developer productivity while enforcing quality and security standards. We build multi-stage YAML pipelines that handle everything from build and test to security scanning and deployment, with full traceability throughout the process.
We excel at creating reusable composite actions and organization-wide workflows that standardize best practices across teams and repositories. Our secure OIDC-based secretless deployments eliminate credential management headaches, while environment approvals ensure proper governance without creating bottlenecks. Whether you’re just getting started with GitHub Actions or optimizing existing workflows, we bring the expertise to make your pipelines both powerful and maintainable.
Azure DevOps Pipelines
Azure DevOps provides a comprehensive platform for enterprise software delivery, and our team has deep expertise in leveraging its full capabilities. We implement both classic and YAML pipelines optimized for your specific workloads, whether they’re containers, virtual machines, or serverless functions. Our approach integrates boards, artifacts, and test plans for a unified DevSecOps experience that connects planning to delivery.
We specialize in secure pipeline implementations with Azure Key Vault integration, policy gates, and structured release approvals that maintain compliance without sacrificing velocity. Our Azure DevOps implementations include comprehensive dashboards and reporting that provide visibility into delivery metrics, helping you continuously improve your software delivery lifecycle.
Travis CI for Open Source & Hybrid Clouds
For organizations leveraging open source or requiring hybrid cloud deployments, Travis CI offers powerful capabilities that our team puts to work. We configure matrix builds that test across multiple languages and runtimes, ensuring your applications work consistently across diverse environments. Our implementations include secure secrets scanning and pull-request gating that prevent security issues from entering your codebase.
We excel at configuring Travis CI to deploy seamlessly to Azure, AWS, or on-premises environments, creating consistent delivery pipelines regardless of your target infrastructure. Our approach ensures that even complex, multi-platform applications can be delivered with confidence and consistency through automated pipelines.
Custom Pipeline Integration
Many organizations have unique requirements that demand custom pipeline solutions. Our team excels at integrating specialized tools and creating bespoke automation that addresses your specific challenges. From legacy systems integration to specialized compliance requirements, we build custom pipeline components that extend standard CI/CD platforms to meet your needs.
We implement webhook-driven integrations, custom validation steps, and specialized deployment mechanisms that ensure your unique workflows are fully automated and governed. Our custom solutions maintain the same principles of visibility, traceability, and reliability that characterize all our CI/CD implementations.
Ready to transform your software delivery? Let’s discuss how our CI/CD expertise can accelerate your path to production while enhancing quality and security.
Quality can’t be an afterthought—it must be built into every step of the delivery process. Our test-driven approach integrates comprehensive validation throughout your pipeline, ensuring issues are caught early when they’re least expensive to fix.
Different applications and organizations have different risk tolerances and operational requirements. We implement deployment strategies that balance velocity and reliability according to your specific needs.
Blue-Green & Canary Releases
For applications where deployment risk must be minimized, we implement sophisticated blue-green and canary release patterns. Our blue-green deployments create parallel environments with Azure Front Door or Application Gateway traffic shifting, allowing new versions to be fully validated before receiving production traffic. Automated health probes continuously monitor the new environment, triggering immediate rollback if issues are detected.
Canary deployments provide even more granular risk management by gradually increasing traffic to new versions while monitoring key performance and error metrics. This approach allows potential issues to be identified with minimal user impact, providing an optimal balance between rapid delivery and operational stability.
Rolling & Feature-Flag Deployments
For services that require continuous availability, we implement rolling deployments that gradually update instances across your infrastructure. Our implementations for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS) ensure that capacity is maintained throughout the deployment process, eliminating downtime while controlling risk through gradual rollout.
Feature flags provide another layer of deployment control by separating code deployment from feature activation. We implement feature toggling via LaunchDarkly or Azure App Configuration, allowing features to be selectively enabled for specific users or gradually rolled out across your user base. This approach enables continuous deployment while maintaining precise control over feature availability.
A/B Testing & Experimentation
Modern application development requires data-driven decision making. We implement A/B testing frameworks that allow different versions of features to be simultaneously deployed and evaluated based on real user behavior. Our implementations use Azure Traffic Manager or CDN edge rules to segment traffic, with metrics collection in Application Insights and Azure Monitor.
We create statistical significance dashboards powered by Power BI that help you objectively evaluate experiment results and make informed decisions about feature direction. This data-driven approach ensures that your product decisions are based on actual user behavior rather than assumptions or opinions.
Deployment Telemetry & Alerts
Understanding deployment performance is essential for continuous improvement. We implement real-time dashboards that track release health, latency, and error budgets, providing immediate visibility into the impact of each deployment. Our pipelines automatically generate release notes and versioned changelogs, ensuring complete traceability between code changes and production behavior.
Sophisticated alerting systems detect anomalies in both deployment and runtime metrics, providing early warning of potential issues. These alerts are integrated with your incident management system, ensuring appropriate response based on severity and business impact.
Data-Driven Improvement
Continuous improvement requires objective measurement and analysis. We implement DORA metrics tracking (lead time, deployment frequency, change failure rate, and mean time to recovery) that provides quantitative assessment of your delivery performance. These metrics enable data-driven decisions about process and tooling improvements, ensuring that changes actually enhance your delivery capabilities.
Our approach includes structured, blameless retrospectives informed by actionable data rather than subjective impressions. We also implement chaos testing and gameday exercises that proactively identify resilience gaps, allowing them to be addressed before they impact users. This comprehensive approach to continuous improvement ensures that your delivery capabilities constantly evolve and strengthen.
Our clients choose us for CI/CD and DevOps automation because we deliver measurable improvements in both delivery speed and software quality: