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Deploys in minutes after a decade on one VPS
Challenge
A profitable SaaS product ran on a single, hand-configured VPS. Releases were manual and nerve-wracking, the environment existed nowhere but that one box, and there was no clean way to roll back.
Approach
We containerized the application and moved it to AWS ECS/Fargate behind a load balancer, with managed Postgres on RDS for state. Every piece of infrastructure is declared in Terraform, so the environment is reproducible from code. A GitHub Actions pipeline builds, tests, and deploys on merge, and a blue/green cutover with health checks makes rollback a single command.
Architecture
Docker image → GitHub Actions (build → test → deploy) → ECS Fargate behind ALB → RDS · CloudWatch
AWS ECS Fargate · RDS · ALB · CloudWatch — Terraform IaC, GitHub Actions CI/CD, blue/green cutover
Results
- Deploys from days to minutes, with one-command rollback*
- The entire environment reproducible from Terraform, not tribal knowledge
- Zero-downtime cutover off the legacy VPS
* Illustrative figure from a representative engagement, shown to convey typical scope. Replaced with client-verified numbers before publication.