How it works
One governed line, from plan to production and back.
Delivery is complex, and most of that complexity is the cost of every team solving it differently. IntegraCI turns the whole DevSecOps lifecycle into a single governed line, the same one for every team, with an inspection station and a recorded step at every phase. Here is the line, end to end.
The whole line, at a glance
Ten stations, one continuous line, looping back on itself. The same golden path that plans a change is the one that builds, tests, ships, recovers, reviews, and runs it.
- 01 Plan
- 02 Develop
- 03 Pre-Build
- 04 Build
- 05 Test
- 06 Release
- 07 Deploy
- 08 Rollback
- 09 Post-deploy
- 10 Operate
The flow
The same line, by hand or governed.
The same ten stations, side by side. On the left you wire each one yourself. On the right is the governed line, with who does the work and what the platform sets at each station.
Without IntegraCI
Requirements scattered, security and data rules come late, sign-off informal.
- Who
- No clear owner
- Set
- Ad-hoc docs
With IntegraCI
Compliance bundle, data classification, and control tier set up front, with a design-approval gate.
- Who
- Product, security, leadership
- Set
- Policy bundle, data class, design gate
Without IntegraCI
You wire the repo, tools, branch rules, and docs by hand, and review is optional.
- Who
- Each developer, alone
- Set
- Repo and rules by hand
With IntegraCI
Scaffold from a golden path, with inline docs and guardrails already in place.
- Who
- Developer
- Set
- Golden path, branch protection
Without IntegraCI
You manage the merge request, code review, and conflicts by hand, with no gate.
- Who
- Reviewer, by hand
- Set
- Manual PR review
With IntegraCI
An automated quality gate runs on the pull request before it can merge to the trunk.
- Who
- Technical lead
- Set
- Merge gate, autotag
Without IntegraCI
You write a Jenkinsfile or CI config by hand, per repo and per engine.
- Who
- Whoever knows the CI
- Set
- Hand-written pipeline
With IntegraCI
One golden YAML pipeline builds any target and renders to your CI engine.
- Who
- Automated
- Set
- Golden YAML, SBOM
Without IntegraCI
You wire each scanner and manage test data yourself, and tune the thresholds.
- Who
- Each team
- Set
- Scanners by hand
With IntegraCI
Layered tests and scans ship in the template, with managed test data, behind a quality gate.
- Who
- QA, security
- Set
- Built-in scans, test data, gate
Without IntegraCI
Tag and push by hand, and a bill of materials, provenance, and docs are extra work.
- Who
- Whoever cuts it
- Set
- Manual tagging
With IntegraCI
A signed release candidate with its bill of materials and docs, promoted through policy gates.
- Who
- Release approver
- Set
- SBOM, provenance, approval
Without IntegraCI
Every target and environment is a different setup, provisioned by hand.
- Who
- Ops, per target
- Set
- Manual infra
With IntegraCI
One gated path promotes across environments and targets, with infra provisioned for you.
- Who
- Operations, platform
- Set
- Env promotion, infra, gate
Without IntegraCI
When a deploy fails, recovery is improvised, and old versions may not be backed up.
- Who
- On-call, scrambling
- Set
- Manual, if any
With IntegraCI
A governed rollback: the previous version is backed up, data loss is assessed, and it restores on approval.
- Who
- On-call, leadership
- Set
- Backup, RPO check, approval
Without IntegraCI
After go-live, no one formally checks how it went, and lessons are lost.
- Who
- Nobody, really
- Set
- Nothing recorded
With IntegraCI
A post-implementation review captures what worked, with scorecards and an audit trail for evidence.
- Who
- Everyone
- Set
- PIR, scorecards, audit trail
Without IntegraCI
You build the dashboards, define the SLOs, and instrument tracing yourself.
- Who
- Ops, by hand
- Set
- Dashboards and SLOs by hand
With IntegraCI
Dashboards, SLOs, alerts, and tracing are provisioned automatically, with runtime monitoring.
- Who
- Operations, security
- Set
- Auto dashboards, SLOs, monitoring
Across every phase
Two things run the length of the path.
These are not steps you pass through once. They run across all ten stages, which is what makes the path safe to move fast on.
Governed AI, end to end
AI assists across the whole lifecycle, under control. Every artifact records which AI assistant or model touched it, AI can run self-hosted up to air-gapped, its use is disclosed and logged, and a human reviews what it proposes.
Gates and human approvals
Security is not a final checklist. Code, dependency, secret, container, and infrastructure scans run continuously with a bill of materials, and a change stops on critical findings. The decisions that matter, peer review, release, and rollback, keep a person in the loop.
Why it holds
What keeps the standard from drifting.
A standard is only real if it is hard to leave by accident. Four things keep the road paved.
Defined once, centrally
The standard lives in one golden path owned by the platform team, not scattered across wikis and tribal knowledge.
Enforced by gates, not documents
Quality, security, and release gates run as code in the path. A change cannot skip them by forgetting. The paved road replaces the SOP that nobody reads.
On the tools you already run
IntegraCI governs your source control, CI, scanners, and clouds. It standardizes them rather than replacing them.
Measured, so drift shows
Scorecards check every service against the standard, so you see where reality matches the road and where it does not.
Not a one-off
The standard is a loop.
Raise the golden path once, and every service that follows inherits the change. The road improves, and everyone moves with it. That is how a standard stays a standard, instead of decaying the day after it is written.
See how golden paths are authoredWhere each part lives
The flow maps to six pillars.
The path is one road, built from six pillars. Each pillar owns part of the flow, and AI runs across all of them.
Deliver
Golden paths, pipelines, and deploys that work the same across targets.
Learn moreQuality
Scorecards, tests, and quality gates that hold the line on every change.
Learn moreSecure
Scanning, supply chain, and access, gated on policy in the path.
Learn moreOperate
DORA, SLOs, incidents, and observability from the same path.
Learn moreGovern
Policy as code, audit trail, and evidence that prove the standard.
Learn moreAI
A governed gateway, copilot, and agents, under policy and human approval.
Learn moreAI runs across the whole path, under policy and approval. See the AI gateway, or read the core concepts in the docs.
Start on the paved road.
Request a demo and scaffold your first service from a golden path, or talk to us about rolling the standard out across your teams.