Make every release predictable, from commit to production

We turn the steps between a commit and a live release into automated pipelines and describe your infrastructure in code, starting with one application.

Sound familiar?

Which of these sounds like your team?

Shipping by checklist

Every release follows a manual document, and only one person really knows it.

Hand-built environments

Nobody set them up the same way, so test and production have quietly diverged.

Bugs found in production

Your customers report issues that no test ever caught.

Developers left waiting

Work sits for days before anyone can see it running.

Vulnerabilities slip through

Dependencies with known flaws make it all the way to production.

Releases you have to stay up for

A large launch keeps the team working late.

Process

How we work

  1. 01

    Look at today's process

    We walk through the way your code gets built, tested and shipped now.

  2. 02

    Pick a pilot

    A single application becomes the pilot, so results are visible early.

  3. 03

    Code the pipelines

    We build the pipelines and write your infrastructure as code.

  4. 04

    Roll it out

    The approach spreads to all your teams, and we train your people as it does.

Specifics

Technical details

  • A push starts the pipeline, for example in GitLab CI/CD, which builds the code, runs unit tests and integration tests and scans dependencies and images
  • Nothing changes without a review, because application code, infrastructure and configuration all go through Git
  • A rollout goes in stages and rolls itself back if it fails, and metrics and alerts then show how the release is behaving
  • Each AWS environment is kept in code, for example with Terraform or CloudFormation
  • On Kubernetes, Argo CD applies changes the GitOps way
  • The same pipelines can serve a cloud setup, servers you host yourself, or a mix

Options

Flexible to fit you

  • Keep the tools you have, such as GitLaborBring in new ones when they earn a place
  • Automate a single applicationorBring every application onto the pipelines
  • Grootan sets it uporYour developers set it up with us
  • We keep maintaining itorYour team looks after it

Measurement

What we measure

  • How frequently new code reaches users
  • How long a change waits between commit and release
  • Releases that need a fix or a rollback
  • How quickly a fresh environment can be ready

FAQ

Questions we hear

Where does a DevOps project start?

With the steps that waste the most of your team's time. We find them by looking at your current release process, then automate them, with pipelines and with your infrastructure written as code.

Why write infrastructure as code instead of setting it up by hand?

So that every environment is built the same way, from files, instead of depending on who clicked what. Networks, servers and other services are all defined in those files.

Will we need new tools?

No. Your current tools stay. A new one comes in only if it clearly makes things better.

What's the price of a DevOps project?

It is set by the scope of the work and how complex your setup is. We'll go through that when we first speak.

Take the manual work out of shipping

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