
How-to · 10 Aug 2026
GitHub Actions CI/CD for a team with no DevOps personA minimal GitHub Actions setup for a team without a dedicated DevOps person: what to build, what to skip, and whether the free tier actually covers you.
Running production without a platform team. Hosting choices, egress bills, backups you have actually restored from, and the smallest amount of observability that still tells you what broke at 3am. Written for the case where the person paged is also the person who wrote the code.

A minimal GitHub Actions setup for a team without a dedicated DevOps person: what to build, what to skip, and whether the free tier actually covers you.

Docker and Postgres on one box, done right: the real setup, what it handles, where it breaks, and the one thing to fix before trusting it with real data.

Published per-GB egress cost across six providers, plus the free-tier limits and committed-use discounts that actually change the real monthly total.