Standardising CI/CD across many product teams
Dozens of teams each maintaining their own pipeline scripts, with inconsistent quality gates and no shared ownership.
This is an illustrative reference design describing how Protogenies approaches this class of problem. It is not a named client engagement, and it contains no performance claims.
What has to be solved
Release behavior differs per team, security controls are applied unevenly, and pipeline maintenance duplicates effort everywhere.
Technical constraints
- Teams must be able to adopt incrementally
- Existing CI platform stays in place
- Audit requires traceability from commit to release
Approach
A versioned library of shared pipeline templates covering build, test, scanning, artifact publishing and gated promotion, consumed by reference so improvements propagate.
Implementation
- 01Template library with semantic versioning and a contribution guide
- 02Artifact repository conventions and signing
- 03Environment promotion model with approvals recorded
- 04Dependency, container and secret scanning with a documented blocking policy
- 05Migration support for early-adopter teams before wider rollout
Technology stack
Expected qualitative outcomes
- One place to fix or improve a control for every team
- Consistent evidence from commit through to deployed artifact
- Less duplicated pipeline maintenance across teams
- Predictable, documented release gates
Things to weigh up
- Adoption depends on the templates being easier than the status quo
- A support model for the template library has to be owned by someone
Talk to the engineers who would do the work
Bring your current architecture, constraints and the problem you are trying to solve. We will tell you what we would change first, what it depends on, and where we would start.