borderlessbits.com

CI/CD Pipeline Documentation

Overview

BorderlessBits.com implements a comprehensive CI/CD pipeline that provides enterprise-grade deployment capabilities while maintaining zero-cost operations. The pipeline includes automated quality gates, multi-environment deployments, security scanning, performance monitoring, and automatic failover.

Architecture

graph TB
    A[Developer Push] --> B[GitHub Actions CI]
    B --> C{Quality Gates}
    C -->|Pass| D[Build & Test]
    C -->|Fail| E[Block Deployment]
    D --> F{Branch Check}
    F -->|main| G[Production Deploy]
    F -->|develop| H[Staging Deploy]
    F -->|feature| I[Preview Deploy]

    G --> J[GitHub Pages]
    G --> K[Netlify Backup]
    G --> L[Post-Deploy Validation]

    H --> M[Netlify Staging]
    I --> N[Netlify Preview]

    L --> O{Validation Pass?}
    O -->|No| P[Automatic Rollback]
    O -->|Yes| Q[Success Notifications]

    R[Monitoring] --> S[Health Checks]
    S --> T{Issues?}
    T -->|Yes| U[Alert & Rollback]
    T -->|No| V[Continue Monitoring]

Pipeline Components

1. Continuous Integration (CI)

File: .github/workflows/ci.yml

Triggers:

Jobs:

Performance: ~10 minutes total execution time with parallel jobs

2. Production Deployment (CD)

File: .github/workflows/deploy-production.yml

Triggers:

Deployment Strategy:

  1. Pre-deployment Validation
    • Critical tests execution
    • Security audit (high/critical vulnerabilities block deployment)
    • Production build with optimizations
    • Bundle size validation (<2MB total)
  2. Primary Deployment: GitHub Pages
    • Static site generation
    • Custom domain configuration
    • SSL certificate management
    • CDN optimization
  3. Backup Deployment: Netlify
    • Automatic failover target
    • Independent deployment pipeline
    • Form handling capabilities
    • Branch deploy previews
  4. Post-deployment Validation
    • Health checks with retries (10 attempts, 30s intervals)
    • Performance validation with Lighthouse
    • SEO assets verification (sitemap.xml, robots.txt)
    • SSL certificate validation
  5. Automatic Rollback
    • Triggered on validation failures
    • Restores previous successful deployment
    • Notification system integration

Performance: ~5 minutes for successful deployment

3. Staging Environment

File: .github/workflows/deploy-staging.yml

Purpose: Production-like testing environment for validation before main deployment

Features:

4. Preview Deployments

File: .github/workflows/preview-deploy.yml

Features:

Quality Gates

Code Quality

Security

Performance

Environment Configuration

Production

Staging

Preview

Security Implementation

Secrets Management

Required Secrets:

GA_MEASUREMENT_ID           - Google Analytics tracking
EMAILJS_SERVICE_ID          - Email service configuration
EMAILJS_TEMPLATE_ID         - Email template ID
EMAILJS_PUBLIC_KEY          - EmailJS public key
NETLIFY_AUTH_TOKEN          - Netlify deployment token
NETLIFY_SITE_ID             - Production site ID
NETLIFY_STAGING_SITE_ID     - Staging site ID
NETLIFY_PREVIEW_SITE_ID     - Preview deployments site ID
LHCI_GITHUB_APP_TOKEN       - Lighthouse CI integration
CODECOV_TOKEN               - Code coverage reporting

Security Scanning

Monitoring & Alerting

Health Monitoring

File: .github/workflows/monitoring.yml

Schedule:

Monitoring Checks:

Alerting Strategy

Integration Points

Performance Optimization

Build Optimization

Deployment Optimization

Monitoring Integration

Rollback Procedures

Automatic Rollback

Triggered automatically when:

Process:

  1. Detect failure condition
  2. Identify last known good deployment
  3. Restore previous build artifacts
  4. Redeploy to all targets
  5. Validate rollback success
  6. Send failure notifications

Manual Rollback

Script: scripts/rollback.sh

Usage:

# Rollback to latest backup
./scripts/rollback.sh

# Rollback to specific backup
./scripts/rollback.sh -b backup-20231201-143022

# List available backups
./scripts/rollback.sh -l

Features:

Development Workflow

Branching Strategy

main           ← Production deployments
develop        ← Staging deployments
feature/*      ← Preview deployments
hotfix/*       ← Emergency production fixes

Pull Request Process

  1. Create Feature Branch: feature/description
  2. Develop & Test: Local development with Docker
  3. Create Pull Request: Against develop or main
  4. Automated Checks: CI pipeline validation
  5. Preview Deployment: Automatic PR preview
  6. Code Review: Team review process
  7. Merge & Deploy: Automatic deployment trigger

Local Development

Docker Setup: docker-compose up

Troubleshooting Guide

Common Issues

Build Failures:

# Clear cache and rebuild
npm run clean
npm install
npm run build

Deployment Failures:

  1. Check GitHub Actions logs
  2. Verify secrets configuration
  3. Validate environment variables
  4. Check third-party service status

Performance Issues:

# Run performance analysis
npm run analyze
npm run lighthouse

Security Issues:

# Run security audit
npm audit --audit-level moderate
npm run security-check

Emergency Procedures

Critical Production Issue:

  1. Execute immediate rollback: ./scripts/rollback.sh -y
  2. Investigate root cause
  3. Prepare hotfix
  4. Deploy fix with validation
  5. Post-incident review

Security Breach:

  1. Rotate all secrets immediately
  2. Execute security rollback
  3. Audit access logs
  4. Patch vulnerabilities
  5. Security audit and validation

Metrics & Analytics

Deployment Metrics

Performance Metrics

Security Metrics

Cost Optimization

Zero-Cost Architecture

Scaling Triggers

Enterprise Migration Path

For support and questions about the CI/CD pipeline, contact: richard@borderlessbits.com

Response Time: Within 24 hours for deployment issues Emergency Contact: Available for critical production issues