[ 01 ]—DevOps
A CI/CD Checklist for Small Product Teams
Small teams do not need a platform org — they need a pipeline that refuses to ship known-bad builds and a rollback that works under pressure. This is the checklist OnesDev starts from.
Build gates (required)
- Install and lockfile integrity on every PR
- Lint + unit/integration tests that actually run in CI
- Typecheck or compile step for typed stacks
- Artifact build once; promote the same artifact
- Secrets never in logs; injected per environment
Environments without chaos
At minimum: local, staging, production. Staging should mirror production topology enough that migrations and feature flags get a fair fight. Manual “works on my machine” deploys to prod are how Friday incidents start.
Deploy + rollback
- One-command deploy with a recorded revision
- One-command rollback to the previous known-good
- Database migrations that are expandable/contractable when needed
- Health check before traffic cutover when the platform allows
Observability is part of CI/CD
A green pipeline that deploys into a blind production is incomplete. Wire error reporting, basic latency/uptime signals, and a short post-deploy checklist. DevOps ships the release path; MSP keeps watching after.
Next step
Read DevOps or share your current repo and host — we will map a pipeline that fits your stack without enterprise theater.
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