Meridian
Deployment pipeline
Slipway
Governed, multi-cloud deployment — recorded immutably end-to-end. Works against public architectures out of the box; adds full policy enforcement when combined with Meridian Loft and Meridian Chancery.
What it does
Slipway is Meridian's deployment orchestration component. It manages the deployment of infrastructure and application resources across cloud providers and on-premises data centres, with every deployment event recorded immutably. It supports hot-swapping between cloud service providers, resilient multi-environment deployments, and fully air-gapped operation for environments with no external connectivity.
Every deployment Slipway executes is recorded as an auditable event — what was deployed, when, by whom, against which approved architecture, and to which environment. This creates an unbroken chain of evidence from design approval to production state, available for audit on demand without manual evidence assembly.
Who it's for
Slipway is used by DevOps engineers and SREs responsible for deploying and managing infrastructure and application resources across complex, multi-environment estates.
Start here if…
Your team wants governed, immutably recorded multi-cloud deployment — but without rebuilding your compliance programme first. Slipway can be deployed as a standalone deployment pipeline that gates releases against common public architectures and records every deployment event as an auditable artifact. For teams that need to demonstrate provenance and change history to auditors, Slipway provides that record without requiring a full policy or architecture governance programme.
Add Meridian Loft when you want deployments to be gated on validated, organisation-specific architecture approval rather than public catalog defaults. Add Meridian Chancery when you need the architecture validation itself to be driven by organisation-specific policy.
Works best with
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Meridian Loft
Approved Meridian Loft architectures gate Slipway deployments. Without Meridian Loft, Slipway deploys against public architecture standards. With Meridian Loft, nothing reaches production without a validated architecture on record.
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Meridian Patrol
Slipway records what was deployed. Meridian Patrol monitors whether it stays that way. Add Meridian Patrol when you need continuous drift detection between the deployed state and the approved architecture.
How it fits the platform
Slipway is the execution layer — the point at which policy and architecture decisions become real infrastructure. Its immutable deployment record is the primary evidence source for demonstrating that every change was approved, validated, and deployed correctly. That record is available to Meridian Admiralty for audit and executive review, and to Meridian Patrol as the baseline for ongoing drift detection.