DevOps CI/CD Pipeline Guide: Automating Deployment for Web3 & AI Applications
Muhammad Zain
TelGates Team
Automated deployment pipelines are critical for shipping reliable software at speed. Here's our DevOps playbook for Web3 and AI projects.
CI/CD Architecture
Pipeline stages: 1. Code — Push to GitHub/GitLab 2. Build — Compile, lint, type-check 3. Test — Unit tests, integration tests, smart contract fuzzing 4. Security — Slither analysis, dependency scanning 5. Staging — Deploy to testnet/staging environment 6. Approval — Manual review gate for production 7. Deploy — Blue/green deployment to production 8. Monitor — Health checks, alerting, rollback triggers
Smart Contract CI/CD
Smart contracts require special considerations: - Foundry/Hardhat tests must pass with 100% of critical paths covered - Static analysis (Slither) runs on every PR - Testnet deployment before mainnet - Verification on Etherscan/Sourcify automatically - Multi-sig execution for mainnet deployments
Tools We Use
- CI/CD: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI
- Containers: Docker + Kubernetes (EKS)
- IaC: Terraform + AWS CDK
- Monitoring: Grafana + Prometheus + PagerDuty
- Secrets: AWS Secrets Manager + HashiCorp Vault
Development Costs
- Basic pipeline setup: $5,000-15,000
- Full DevOps infrastructure: $20,000-50,000
- Enterprise DevOps (multi-env, compliance): $50,000-100,000
TelGates provides DevOps consulting and managed infrastructure services.