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Source Control & Branch Management
- Manage development branches
- Organise changes and feature development
- Support structured branch promotion workflows
- Visibility into commits and branch history
Governed Software Delivery
Software Delivery Made Simple.
Build Once. Promote with Confidence.
FlowCD brings control, consistency and traceability to software delivery. Manage changes, automate validation, enforce approval gates and promote releases through controlled workflows with confidence.
Release package
PACK-003
- Source
- feature/checkout
- Pull request
- #128 merged
- TESTFeature deployedDone
- SanityChecks passedDone
- DEVIntegrated & validatedDone
- PackageRelease package createdDone
- ApprovalAwaiting release leadPending
- PRODNot yet promotedQueued
Why delivery gets difficult
Delivery Is More Than Deploying Code.
Software delivery means making sure the right changes move through the right environments, with the right validation, authorisation and record of what happened.
“When deployment depends on people remembering the right steps, errors become part of the process.”
Questions every release team eventually faces
- Which version was deployed?
- What exactly changed?
- Was the same build used in Production?
- Was anything changed manually?
- Which business requirement does it relate to?
- Can we reproduce the deployment?
Core capabilities
Control at Every Step of the Release.
From the first branch to the production promotion, FlowCD keeps changes structured, validated, approved and recorded.
02
Pull Request & Change Management
- Create and manage pull requests
- Review changes
- Handle merge conflicts
- Maintain change traceability
- Associate changes with work items where supported
03
Automated Validation
- Integrate automated checks
- Run validation before promotion
- Support testing and sanity checks
- Stop invalid changes progressing through controlled workflows
04
Controlled Environment Promotion
- Promote through TEST, DEV, SIT, UAT and RELEASE as configured
- Promote approved changes through controlled workflows
- Avoid unintended movement of unrelated changes
- Maintain a clear promotion history
05
Approval Gates & Release Governance
- Configure environment-specific approval policies
- Require reviewer approval where appropriate
- Maintain authorisation history
- Control production release eligibility
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Release Package Traceability
- Trace commits and pull requests to release artifacts
- Support immutable release packages
- Promote approved artifacts without rebuilding, where supported by the pipeline
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Environment & Deployment Visibility
- View environment status
- Track deployment history
- Monitor promotion status
- Identify pending approvals and failed checks
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Auditability & Release History
- Track changes
- Maintain release history
- Record approvals
- See who promoted what, and when
Controlled release workflow
Build Once. Promote with Confidence.
A validated release becomes the unit of promotion. The package approved for production is the package that was already tested, not a fresh rebuild.
- 1
Source Branch
Work starts on an isolated feature branch.
- 2
TEST Deployment
The branch is deployed to TEST for early feedback.
- 3
Sanity Testing
Checks confirm the change behaves as expected.
- 4
DEV Integration
Validated changes are merged and tested together.
- 5
Release Package
The validated build becomes a traceable release package.
- 6
Approval Gate
A reviewer approves exactly what will be promoted.
Governance gate
- 7
PROD Promotion
The approved package is promoted to production.
Traditional risk
Rebuild for each environment
- 1. Build in DEV and test it
- 2. Rebuild for production
- 3. Hope nothing changed in between
A different build means additional risk.
The FlowCD approach
Promote the validated package
- Validate the integrated release in DEV
- Record it as a release package with its source changes
- Approve exactly what will be promoted
- Promote the same package to production
Promotion without rebuilding applies where supported by the implemented pipeline.
Trace any change, end to end
Each release package links back to the commits and pull requests it contains, so teams can answer which release introduced a change and when it reached production. Work-item links apply where your tracker is connected.
- Work item
- Commits
- Pull request
- DEV result
- Release package
- Approval
- PROD promotion
Use cases
Built for Real Release Teams.
Parallel development
Several teams work on separate feature branches at once, each change kept isolated and visible.
Feature-to-test isolation
Deploy a feature branch to TEST and validate it before it becomes part of the main release.
Controlled environment promotion
Move changes through the environments your organisation defines, in a controlled order.
Approval-based releases
Production eligibility depends on recorded reviewer approval, not on who has server access.
Environment visibility
Answer “what is running where?” across environments from one view.
Change & release traceability
Follow a change from commit and pull request through to the release package it shipped in.
Sanity testing
Run checks before promotion so invalid changes stop early in the flow.
Rollback planning
Release history shows which previously validated package to return to when planning a rollback.
Why FlowCD
Faster. Safer. Repeatable. Traceable.
Faster
Less repetitive manual coordination for every release.
Safer
Validation and approval gates reduce opportunities for human error.
Repeatable
The same defined release process, every time.
Traceable
Know what changed, where it went and why.
Configured to Your Environment
FlowCD is set up around each organisation’s repositories, pipelines and environments. Rather than assume them, Arivons confirms the specifics during a live walkthrough and implements them through its Implementation & Integration services.
- Your source-control provider and repository structure
- Build and CI tooling, and how validation checks run
- The environments you promote through, and their approval policies
- Your work-item tracker, if changes should be linked to it
- Artifact types and deployment targets
Schedule a live walkthrough
Bring Control and Confidence to Every Release.
Manage software changes, govern promotions and deliver releases with confidence through structured, traceable workflows.
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