DevOpsDevOps / Release Automation
CI/CD for an E-commerce Platform
Releases took most of an afternoon, broke often, and had no fast rollback path. 3 Dices replaced the manual process with an automated pipeline, cutting deploy time from about four hours to under ten minutes and making releases routine.
Deploys cut from ~4 hours to under 10 minutes
~4h → 10m
Deploy time
1-step
Rollback
Automated
Tests & rollout
Routine
Releases, not feared
The challenge
Releases were manual, took most of an afternoon, and broke often enough that the team feared shipping. There was no fast way to roll back a bad deploy.
- Manual releases consuming most of an afternoon
- Frequent breakage that made the team fear shipping
- No fast way to roll back a bad deploy
- No automated tests gating a release
Our solution
Pipeline
- Automated pipeline with build, test, and staged rollout stages
- Containerized builds with Docker for consistency across environments
- Runs on GitHub Actions / GitLab CI
Safety & Rollback
- One-step rollback path to revert a bad release immediately
- Automated tests gating every deploy
- Staged rollout to limit blast radius
Visibility
- Deployment status and failures wired into alerting
- Issues surfaced early instead of in production
The results
Speed
- Deploy time cut from ~4 hours to under 10 minutes
- Staged rollout without a manual afternoon process
Safety
- Rollbacks reduced to a single step
- Automated tests gate every release
Confidence
- Releases became routine instead of feared
- Failures surface early via alerting
Technologies & AWS services
- CI/CD
- GitLab CI
- GitHub Actions
- Docker
- AWS
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