I should probably emphasize that it's difficult for me to get new things approved, but if we NEED it then money is not a problem.

The response I get is we don't _NEED_ a CI/CD (and haven't had one for years), so they would rather I find a solution that can run on our hardware for free.

I'll add that I enjoy my work environment and they treat me very well, I'm young and I'm known to "like shiny new things". I also have to work on how I pitch why we need certain things, again I'm pretty young so I'm not well practiced in that just yet.