Pipelines that ship inside your perimeter: your CI, your control.
Build, test, and deploy without your code, secrets, or PHI leaving your network. GitHub Actions self-hosted runners, Argo, Tekton: your choice.
Why this engagement exists.
Cloud CI is great until you need to ship code that touches PHI, financial data, or proprietary IP. We design and deploy self-hosted CI pipelines that keep your code, secrets, and build artefacts inside your perimeter, with the speed and ergonomics of cloud CI.
Deliverables, not promises.
Every engagement ships these artefacts. Nothing here is fluff. Each item is something your team will hold in their hands at the end.
CI/CD architecture
Runner topology, registry strategy, secrets management, network design.
Self-hosted runners
Deployed on Kubernetes (ARC) or VMs, scaled to your build volume.
Build caching + parallel
Layer caching, matrix builds, dependency caching: large suites in single-digit minutes.
Secrets + access control
Vault / AWS SM / Azure Key Vault wiring with least-privilege access patterns.
Audit logging
Every build, every secret access, every deploy, logged and queryable.
Templates + team docs
Reusable pipeline templates + a runbook so your team owns operations afterwards.
The process, step by step.
No mystery, no consultant theatre. This is how the work actually flows from kickoff to handover.
- Step 1
Architecture
Runner topology, secrets strategy, network design. Stakeholder sign-off before deployment.
- Step 2
Deploy infrastructure
Runners (Kubernetes or VMs), registry, secrets manager, observability stack.
- Step 3
Migrate pipelines
Existing pipelines port over with parity testing. Old and new run side-by-side first.
- Step 4
Optimise build performance
Caching layers, matrix parallelisation, dependency caching, pre-built images.
- Step 5
Audit + handover
Audit logging wired, access policies enforced, runbook handed to your platform team.
A typical 30-minute CI build drops to 8-12 minutes after caching + parallelisation for Node/Python monorepos with no prior caching strategy. For PHI-handling workloads, the audit log becomes the evidence pack auditors actually ask for.
The questions that actually come up.
Three reasons: compliance (PHI, financial, classified), cost at high build volume, and control over hardware (GPU runners, custom OS images, network isolation). The pipeline is designed to support your HIPAA / SOC 2 posture. It helps keep your environment audit-ready, but it is not a certification of it.
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Agents that actually do work: internal tooling, customer-facing automation, clinical workflows. Built with guardrails, evaluated, monitored.
AI-Driven QA + Testing
Test generation, regression triage, flaky-test detection. Agents do the maintenance, humans set the policy. Coverage that doesn't decay.
Compliance Mapping
Three to four weeks. Map your current state against the framework, identify gaps, deliver the evidence pack the auditor actually asks for.
Ready to scope Self-Hosted CI/CD?
A 30-minute call. We map your situation against the engagement, give you a real estimate, and tell you honestly whether we are the right team for this.