Jenkins CI/CD Pipeline Platform

Problem

• Manual, app-specific deployment steps slowed releases and increased mistakes as the number of services grew.
• Releases depended on tribal knowledge (who remembers which server needs what).

Solution

• Built Jenkins pipelines covering build → release → deploy for containerized internal tools and client-facing dashboards.
• Standardized image build and publish to GitHub Container Registry, then deploy to pre-configured infrastructure.

How it works

• Pipelines trigger on pushes to the main branch (protected).
• An approval gate controls deployments while keeping releases fast.

Decisions & tradeoffs

• Kept Jenkins focused on CI/CD; server provisioning and baseline config handled elsewhere to avoid tight coupling.
• Preferred controlled, repeatable releases over “ssh-and-hope” deployments.

Flow

git push → main
│
├─ Jenkins Pipeline
│   ├─ Build Docker image
│   ├─ Run checks
│   ├─ Push to GHCR
│   └─ Approval gate
│
└─ Deploy to server