Cloud & infrastructure automation
Cloud infrastructure automation and DevOps
Infrastructure defined in code, so the second environment matches the first.
Environments that were set up by hand drift apart, and the gap between staging and production is where releases fail. Defining infrastructure in code closes it: the same definition builds both, changes are reviewed like any other change, and rebuilding an environment from scratch is a routine operation rather than an outage.
On top of that sits the release path. A pipeline that builds, tests and deploys on every merge makes releases small and frequent, which is what makes them safe. Rollback is part of the design rather than an improvisation performed under pressure.
Then the part people postpone: knowing when something is wrong. Monitoring and alerting tuned so the page means something, runbooks written for whoever is actually on call rather than for the person who built it, and a standing review of what the cloud bill is buying. Cost control is not an afterthought when infrastructure is easy to create.
What you get
- Infrastructure as code
- CI/CD pipelines
- Monitoring, alerting and on-call runbooks
- Cost review and right-sizing
Who this is for
- Engineering and platform teams
- Organisations migrating to cloud
- Teams with unreliable release processes
How the engagement runs
Six steps, in this order.
Skipping one of these is how projects end up rebuilt. The order matters more than the ceremony.
- 01
Consultation
We sit with the people who do the work and find out what actually happens, including the workarounds nobody documented.
- 02
Planning and proposal
Scope, timeline and cost in writing, with the assumptions listed. If something is unknown, it is named as unknown.
- 03
Design and development
Data model first, then interface. You see working software early and often rather than a demo at the end.
- 04
Testing and refinement
Functional, load and user acceptance testing. Findings go on a list that gets closed, not a list that gets discussed.
- 05
Implementation and integration
Migration, integration with existing systems and a cutover plan that accounts for the day the old system is switched off.
- 06
Training and support
Your team is trained on the system they will use, and we stay on for maintenance, updates and the questions that arrive in month three.
Questions
Asked before we start.
Something not covered here? Email us and a person will answer.
Which cloud providers do you work with?
AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, and on-premise or hybrid where data residency requires it. Some of our public sector work has to stay on infrastructure inside the country, and the same practices apply there.
Can you reduce what we spend on cloud?
Frequently, and the savings usually come from the dull things: instances sized for a peak that never happens, storage tiers nobody revisited, and non-production environments running overnight. We review first and tell you the size of the opportunity before you commit to the work.
Do you provide ongoing support and on-call?
Yes, under an agreed arrangement. The alternative we prefer is handing your team the runbooks and monitoring so they can carry it themselves, with us as escalation. Which one fits depends on the depth of your internal team.
Scoping
Send us the process that keeps breaking.
A short description is enough to start. We will come back with whether it is a product, a build, or something you can fix without buying software.
Nairobi office
10th Floor, Applewood Adams, Ngong RoadNairobi
Kenya
- Phone
- +254 701 684 754
- Hours
- Mon–Fri, 08:30–17:30 EAT