CI/CD Pipeline Setup
Automated deployments with zero-downtime releases
Deploying by hand works right up to the day it does not. Someone pulls on the wrong branch, a dependency install is forgotten, an Odoo module upgrade is skipped, or a change goes to production that was never seen on staging. The fix is not more discipline, it is a pipeline that makes the safe path the easy path and turns a rollback into one command.
- Repository and branch review, then agreement on what triggers a staging deploy and what triggers production
- Build stage: dependency install, linting and any test suite that exists, so a broken commit fails before it reaches a server
- Staging deploy on every merge, including the Odoo module upgrade step, so staging is genuinely the same code path as production
- Production deploy as a manual gate, never automatic on push to the default branch, with a pre-deploy backup step
- One-command rollback to the previous release, rehearsed before handover
- Pipeline notifications to the channel your team already reads, and a written runbook for the failure cases
From $350 (fixed-price pipeline setup, 3 to 5 days)
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Deliverables
- GitLab CI/CD and GitHub Actions
- Automated testing integration
- Docker containerization
- Staging and production environments
- Rollback automation
- Pipeline monitoring
GitLab CI or GitHub Actions?
Whichever your code already lives in. We build both, and the pipeline structure we use is the same either way.
Can you set this up for an Odoo instance?
Yes, and Odoo needs a couple of specifics: the module upgrade step and a filestore-aware backup before deploy. A generic web-app pipeline skips both and that is where Odoo deployments go wrong.
Do we need Docker for this?
No. Containers make some steps cleaner, but a pipeline that deploys to a systemd service install works well and we run both in production.
What happens if a deploy fails halfway?
The pipeline stops at the failed stage rather than continuing, the pre-deploy backup is already taken, and the rollback command returns the server to the previous release. That order is the point of the setup.