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DevOps services

Containers, Kubernetes, automated delivery, infrastructure as code and observability.

  1. 01

    Docker & Containers

    If your application works on a developer laptop and fails on the server, the environments have drifted apart. Our Docker services package the app and its dependencies into small, repeatable images, then run them on your servers with Docker Compose, health checks and sensible resource limits.

    • It works on staging and breaks in production.
    • Setting up the project on a new server takes days.
  2. 02

    Kubernetes Clusters

    Kubernetes is powerful, and a badly built cluster quickly becomes the cause of your outages. We start with node and network design, build the cluster with a highly available control plane, and plan backups, monitoring and upgrades from day one.

    • We have too many services to manage containers by hand.
    • We built a cluster ourselves and now nobody dares to upgrade it.
  3. 03

    CI/CD Pipelines

    When every release means SSH into the server and a few commands typed from memory, a broken build eventually reaches your users. We automate the path from commit to server. Every push is tested and built, and production deploys happen after a single approval.

    • One person deploys by hand and only they know the steps.
    • Every update breaks something, and rolling back takes hours.
  4. 04

    Infrastructure as Code

    A server configured by hand a few years ago usually has no documentation, and rebuilding it is guesswork. With Infrastructure as Code, configuration lives in Ansible and Terraform, sits in Git and gives the same result every run. We write that code from the servers you already have.

    • We don't know exactly what has been configured on our servers.
    • Every new server takes a day of manual setup.
  5. 05

    Observability & Logging

    When a service slows down, you need to see quickly whether the cause is the database, the network or the last release. We set up Grafana and Prometheus, bring your logs into one place, and give you that view across servers, containers and applications.

    • To find an error we SSH into several servers and grep through logs.
    • We run Prometheus, but there are so many alerts that nobody reads them.

How to choose the right DevOps services

DevOps services are for software teams that want the path from code to production to be repeatable, automated and visible. This category has five services. Each one solves a specific problem, and you don't need to start them all at once.

If the app works on a developer's laptop and fails on the server, or dependencies are installed by hand on every machine, start with Docker & Containers. Kubernetes Clusters make sense when you run many services across several servers and need automatic rescheduling, restarts of failed containers and scaling; for one or two simple services, Docker Compose is usually enough. If every release means an SSH session and a few commands typed from memory, choose CI/CD Pipelines with GitLab CI or Jenkins. Infrastructure as Code, using Ansible and Terraform, is for servers that were configured by hand years ago and that nobody knows how to rebuild. If you can't tell whether a slowdown comes from the database or the last release, look at Observability & Logging with Prometheus, Grafana and ELK.

A common order is containers first, then CI/CD, and Kubernetes once the number of services and servers actually calls for it. Observability and infrastructure as code can be added at any stage. Teams moving away from manual deployment usually feel the biggest change from Docker plus a simple pipeline.

DevOps rests on healthy servers and networks. If servers are still unpatched, consider Linux Server Management and Server Hardening before Kubernetes. For clusters on your own hardware, Server Virtualization or Private Cloud under Network provides the base. Observability here focuses on application metrics and logs; for simple uptime alerts on servers and network links, Network & Server Monitoring in Managed IT is the better fit.

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