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Core 02 · CI/CD & Environments
Visual CI/CD pipelines for Kubernetes — ship what you run, no rewrite.
Build CI/CD pipelines visually or declare them as GitOps code. Source, build, scan, deploy, and promote across every cluster — with guardrails, rollbacks, and a full audit trail baked into every run.
- ✓ Visual or GitOps
- ✓ Works with existing workloads
- ✓ Rollback on every run
01
Source
GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket. Atmosly reads what's already running.
02
Build
Cached image builds with Kaniko — no privileged Docker daemon.
03
Scan
Security & policy checks gate the artifact before it ships.
04
Deploy
Roll out to any cluster — EKS, GKE, AKS or on-prem.
05
Promote
Change-window, approvals & audit trail to production.
How a pipeline comes together
From repo to production in four moves
1
Connect
Point at the repo — Atmosly reads what runs
Connect GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket. Atmosly inspects the services you already run, so you're not authoring pipelines from a blank file.
- No rebuild — works with existing workloads
- Detects language, build & runtime automatically
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detected · Go 1.22 · Dockerfile✓
services found7
2
Author
Visual editor or GitOps — your call
Drag stages together in the visual builder, or declare the whole pipeline as code and let GitOps reconcile it. Same engine, same guardrails, either way.
- Visual builder for fast iteration
- GitOps-as-code for review & version control
stages: build → scan → deployvalid
trigger: on push · main✓
target: prod-eu-west✓
3
Run
Build, scan, deploy — with cost reported
Every run builds a cached image, runs security and policy checks, deploys to the target cluster, and reports the cost delta — all visible on one screen.
- Kaniko builds — no privileged daemon
- Security gate blocks risky artifacts before deploy
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scan · 0 criticalpass
deploy · prod-eu-westlive
4
Promote
Promote to prod, inside the guardrails
Promotion runs through change-window checks, approvals, and a recorded audit trail — and every release carries a one-click rollback.
- Approvals & change-window enforcement
- Audit trail + one-click rollback on every release
change-window · open✓
approved by · 2 reviewers✓
rollback · readyarmed
Inside the builder
Everything a pipeline needs, nothing to wire yourself
The capabilities you'd normally stitch together from five tools — built into one engine.
Visual + GitOps, same engine
Drag stages in the visual editor or declare them as code — both compile to the same run, with the same guardrails and the same audit trail.
visual edit → appliedsynced to git
git push → reconciledlive
Deploy to any cluster
One pipeline targets EKS, GKE, AKS, or on-prem. No per-cloud rewrites, no separate tooling per environment.
EKS · prod-eu✓
GKE · prod-us✓
on-prem · dr✓
Cached builds
Kaniko image builds with layer caching — fast, and no privileged Docker daemon in your cluster.
One-click rollback
Every release records a rollback. Revert a bad deploy in one click — no runbook, no scramble.
Secrets injection
Pull from your secret manager at deploy time — nothing baked into images or stored in plain text.
Cost reported on every run
See the cost delta a change introduces before it reaches production — surfaced inline on the run, not waiting on next month's bill. The same cost signal the Operations core uses, right where you ship.
The payoff
What changes when CI/CD is built in
No rewrite
works with the workloads you already run
1 pipeline
for every service, across every cluster
30×/day
deploys with no release captain*
1-click
rollback on every release
*Representative of customer-reported outcomes. Your results depend on team and workload mix.
Same control plane
Pipeline Builder is one of three cores
Build, run, and provision share one UI, one audit trail, and one permissions model.
Questions
What teams ask before connecting a repo
Do I have to rewrite my services to use it?
No. Atmosly reads the services you already run and builds pipelines around them. There's no framework to adopt and no rewrite — you point it at your repo and it works with what's there.
Does it replace ArgoCD?
It can — or it can coexist. Atmosly speaks GitOps natively, so you can run it as your reconciler, or keep ArgoCD and let Atmosly handle the build, scan, and promotion stages around it.
Visual editor or pipeline-as-code?
Both, interchangeably. Edits in the visual builder sync to Git, and changes pushed as code reconcile back into the visual view. Teams that want review gates use code; teams that want speed use the editor — same engine underneath.
How do builds run without a privileged daemon?
Atmosly builds images with Kaniko, which builds inside the cluster without a Docker daemon or root privileges — so your CI doesn't widen your attack surface to ship a container.
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