Timeline: 3/2025 – 6/2025
Concepts: Software Delivery, Docker, Jenkins, CI/CD, Containerization, Automation, Shell Scripting
Source Code: GitHub
Classification: Localized Delivery Pipeline
About
Pweb is a localized software delivery pipeline integrated directly into the application codebase. Rather than relying on an external CI/CD platform, the project encapsulates development, build, deployment, and operational environments as containerized pipeline stages that can be instantiated on demand. This establishes a self-contained delivery workflow that remains versioned alongside the application and evolves with the code it delivers.
Requirement
Large applications often require multiple operational environments throughout their lifecycle, including development, build, deployment, and maintenance. Managing these environments independently introduces duplicated configuration, inconsistent workflows, and deployment processes that gradually diverge from the application itself.
The project required a delivery pipeline that remained part of the codebase, allowing every lifecycle stage to be provisioned locally while ensuring that deployment logic evolved together with the application.
Solution
The project organizes software delivery into independent containerized environments representing each stage of the application lifecycle. Development, build, deployment, and operational update environments are defined within the project itself and can be instantiated independently according to the required workflow.
Each environment performs a single operational responsibility while remaining isolated from the others. Development provides a dedicated runtime for iterative changes, the build environment generates deployable artifacts, the deployment environment executes production releases, and operational services automate application updates after deployment.
By embedding the complete delivery pipeline within the repository, deployment logic becomes version controlled alongside application code. Infrastructure configuration, runtime environments, and operational workflows remain synchronized throughout development, enabling the entire delivery process to be reproduced from a single codebase without external pipeline dependencies.
Outcome
The project established a self-contained software delivery model where every stage of the application lifecycle could be provisioned directly from the repository.
Versioning the delivery pipeline alongside the application eliminated divergence between infrastructure and application code, improved deployment reproducibility, and provided a maintainable foundation for evolving both the application and its operational workflow as a single system.