Enterprise grade production-ready DevSecOps CI/CD solution for microservices

Key features/roadmap

• Gatekeepers at Every Stage: quality, security, container, and deploy gates
• Immutable Artifacts: every Maven deploy and Docker image is versioned by commit SHA
• Least-Privilege & Secrets Management: OpenShift secrets, GitLab CI variables
• Observability Hooks: readiness/liveness probes, Fortify and Sonar reporting artifacts
• Self-Healing & Rollback: easy oc rollout undo, autoscaling, multi-AZ pods
• Governance & Audit: Git history, protected branches, MR approvals, pipeline logs

Branching Strategy

• Establish a clear branching model and commit policy.
• Main Branch Protection
• main (or master) always reflects production.
• Block direct pushes—only merged via pull requests with passing pipelines.
• Require at least one approving code review.
• Branch Naming
• Features: feature/-short-description
• Hotfixes: hotfix/-urgent-fix
• Releases: release/
• Commit Message Convention: (): E.g. ci(pipeline): add SonarQube quality gate step | Enforces code coverage and static analysis metrics before allowing deploy to staging.

Workflow

• Developer creates feature/JIRA-123-add-payment-api.
• They add code, update openshift/ manifests (if needed), and enhance .gitlab-ci.yml.
• They commit following (): commit message convention.
• Pushes branch to GitHub, opens a pull request against main.
• CI runs:
  • Maven build → Nexus publish
  • Unit tests
  • SonarQube quality gate
  • Fortify, Nexus IQ, WebInspect scans
  • Docker build & push
  • If any stage fails, the pipeline breaks and the PR is blocked.
  • After approval and green pipeline, merge to main.
• CD kicks off:
  • deploy to OpenShift
  • rollout status monitored.
  • Route health checked
  • monitoring dashboards updated automatically.