Infrastructure & Longevity
DevOps & Cloud Infrastructure
Cloud architecture and the automation around it: migrations, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, observability, and cost audits across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and deployments that don't need a weekend.
- Deploys in minutes, not weekends
- Cloud bills and bottlenecks you can see
- Infrastructure rebuildable from code
The problem
Deploys take a weekend, and everyone holds their breath.
When a deploy takes a weekend, releases become rare and large, and each one is risky. When servers are set up by hand, nobody can rebuild them after a failure and no two environments quite match.
We automate builds, tests and releases, describe your infrastructure in code so it can be recreated, and add the monitoring that tells you about a problem before your customers do. We work on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, and we review the bill as well.
What you receive
What a project produces.
Infrastructure as code
Your cloud environment described in version-controlled files that can rebuild it from scratch.
A CI/CD pipeline
Automated build, test and deployment for each change, with approvals where you want them.
Matching environments
Development, staging and production close enough to each other that a passing test means something.
Monitoring and alerting
Dashboards, logs and alerts for the things that matter, tuned to avoid noise.
Backup and recovery plan
Backups that are tested by restoring them, and a written procedure for a disaster.
A cost review
A breakdown of what you spend, and the changes that lower it without hurting reliability.
How we approach it
The positions we take.
Small, frequent releases
Shipping small changes often is safer than shipping large ones rarely. The pipeline makes that the easy path.
Everything in code
If it is not in the repository, it cannot be reviewed, repeated or recovered.
Practise recovery
A backup is not real until it has been restored. We test restores and failovers before you need them.
How it runs
Four steps, from the first call to hand-over.
1
Audit the current state
We review how you build, deploy and run today, what it costs, and where the risks are. You receive a written report and a fixed quote.
2
Pipeline and infrastructure code
We describe the environment in code and automate the path from a commit to production.
3
Migrate with a rollback
Workloads move over in stages, with the old setup kept running until the new one has proved itself.
4
Monitor and hand over
Alerts, dashboards and runbooks are handed over, and your team is walked through a deploy and a recovery.
Is it a fit
When we are the right people, and when we are not.
A good fit
- Deploys are slow, manual or scary.
- Your cloud bill has grown and nobody can explain it.
- You are moving to the cloud, or between clouds.
Another route is better when
- You run a small site on one server without problems. Adding complexity would not help.
- You want to adopt Kubernetes for its own sake. Many products run well on simpler setups, and we will advise on that.
- You want a platform team on permanent retainer. We build the foundations and either hand them over or support them under an agreement.
What we ask on the first call
- How do you deploy today, and how long does it take?
- What happened the last time something went down?
- Which cloud accounts exist, and who has access?
- What is the monthly spend?
- What do you expect if a whole region fails?
Questions
About Cloud & DevOps.
Something missing? Write to [email protected] and an engineer will answer.
Do we have to use Kubernetes?
No. Kubernetes suits some workloads. Many products run better and cheaper on managed services or plain containers, and we recommend by need.
Can you migrate us without downtime?
Usually yes for well-structured systems, by running old and new side by side and moving traffic gradually, with a rollback ready. We assess this during the audit.
Can you reduce our cloud bill?
Often, by resizing, removing unused resources and adjusting purchase plans. We do not promise a figure before seeing the account.
Who owns the cloud accounts?
You do. We work in accounts under your organisation, with access you can revoke.
Describe what you need.
Describe the problem in plain language. An engineer reads every inquiry and replies within one business day, with a written scope and fixed price before you commit to anything.
- Reply
- Within one business day
- First call
- Free, no commitment
- Confidentiality
- NDA on request, before you share anything
- [email protected]