Lack of Visibility
They couldn't see the state of their infrastructure between build and deploy. Debugging failed rollouts required SSH access and manual inspection of logs spread across multiple regions.
Case Study
How Stackwave Scaled to 50 Daily Deploys Without Hiring an SRE
Ship code. Not excuses.
Customer Overview
Stackwave is a 22-person B2B developer tools startup building the modern operating system for Kubernetes. They handle thousands of cluster operations daily and needed a deployment platform as sophisticated as their product.
Like many high-growth teams, they started with GitHub Actions. But as their user base grew and their architecture shifted toward microservices, the rigid workflow of Actions became a bottleneck. They needed a platform that could handle complex orchestration, not just run scripts.
B2B Developer Tools
Kubernetes Native
The Challenge
Outgrowing GitHub Actions
Stackwave hit a wall at 30 deploys a day. Their GitHub Actions workflows were brittle, lacked visibility into production state, and offered zero automated rollback capabilities. A single bad deployment meant a manual rollback process that consumed valuable engineering hours.
No Canary Support
They needed canary deployments to safely roll out changes. GitHub Actions didn't offer the traffic splitting logic or health-check integration they required for their production environment.
Manual Rollbacks
Without automated rollback logic, every failure triggered a panic. Their team spent more time recovering from incidents than building new features.
The Migration
2 Days to Production
Stackwave chose Launchpad for its declarative configuration and CLI import tools. The team wanted to minimize downtime and avoid a "big bang" migration.
Using the lp import github-actions CLI command, they mapped their existing workflow definitions to Launchpad's native pipeline syntax in under 4 hours. The tool auto-detected their environment variables, secrets, and Kubernetes context.
They ran a dry-run in their staging environment, validated the configuration, and flipped the switch to production. Zero configuration files were written from scratch.
50+
Deploys / Day
Consistent uptime
99.97%
Deploy Success
Last 8 months
0
Manual Rollbacks
Automated safety net
"Before Launchpad, a failed deployment meant a 2-hour war room panic. Now? It takes 10 seconds. The automated rollback feature alone saved us about 20 engineering hours a week."Sarah Jenkins
CTO, Stackwave
Their Canary Config
Simple, Powerful Orchestration
Stackwave implemented a 10% canary deployment strategy. If the health checks fail, Launchpad automatically rolls back to the previous version.
1pipeline: stackwave-api-release
2
3stages:
4 - deploy:canary
5 image: gcr.io/stackwave/api:v2.1.0
6 namespace: production
7 replicas: 10
8 traffic_split: 10% # Launchpad handles the load balancer
9 wait: 5m
10 health_check: /health/live
11
12 - deploy:full-production
13 image: gcr.io/stackwave/api:v2.1.0
14 traffic_split: 100%
15
16rollback: auto
17on_failure: notify:slack#devops
18✓ Canary validated
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