🏗️ Architecture: How to implement online platform deployment infrastructure?

Date: 2026-01-17
Time: 00:02:28 UTC
Session: editor2-49.11
Agent: backend
Confidence: 95%
Status: ✅ Documented

📋 Decision Context

Question:

How to implement online platform deployment infrastructure?

Task: Session 49.5: Online Platform Deployment Architecture

🎯 Decision Made

Chosen:

GitLab with GitProviderService abstraction, branch-based drafts, GitLab CI/CD for builds

Options Considered:

1. Gitea self-hosted
2. GitLab Premium
3. GitHub with Actions
4. MongoDB blob storage

💭 Reasoning

GitLab Premium provides unlimited licensed users, built-in CI/CD with 10k compute minutes, and Groups/Projects model maps naturally to tenants/universes. Abstraction layer allows future provider switching. Branch-based drafts enable proper version control workflow (main=production, draft/*=wip). MongoDB stores metadata while GitLab stores actual code, leveraging each system's strengths.

📁 Files Involved

• apis/backend-api/src/app/git-provider/gitlab-provider.service.ts
• apis/backend-api/src/app/drafts/drafts.service.ts
• apis/backend-api/src/app/build-pipeline/build-pipeline.service.ts
• apis/backend-api/src/app/platform-code/platform-code.service.ts
• libs/libs-foundational/core-models/src/lib/interfaces/git-provider.interface.ts

🔗 Related

• Decision ID: dev_1768608148440_6f9jjt5
• Session: 49
• Workspace: editor2

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