DevOps Consulting Services
Automate and optimize operations to grow your business fasterDevOps keeps you growing
Don’t just meet but exceed your productivity and performance goals by prioritizing your DevOps transformation. By focusing on continuous integration and continuous delivery and building a true DevOps culture, you’ll end up with stronger and more engaged teams, plus the agility to stay ahead of your customers’ needs.
Why invest in DevOps Consulting Services?
Organizations that haven’t adopted DevOps practices—or simply don’t know where to start—are feeling the pressure of falling behind. If any of these scenarios sound familiar, it might be time to kickstart your DevOps transformation:
- Weeks of lead time
- Frequent rollbacks
- Relatively brittle applications
- Less productivity/lots of waste
- Low morale amongst teams
- Unsatisfied customers or users
- Weeks of lead time
- Frequent rollbacks
- Relatively brittle applications
- Less productivity/lots of waste
- Low morale amongst teams
- Unsatisfied customers or users
But don’t be fooled: DevOps isn’t just a role or a department, it’s a set of practices that spans your people, processes, and technology. By focusing on both optimizing your delivery pipelines and building a DevOps culture of collaboration, you’ll begin to see a valuable impact.
Business benefits of DevOps Implementation
According to Google’s State of DevOps Report, there’s a significant gap between elite-performing organizations and those that have yet to successfully employ a DevOps strategy. This affects everything from the amount of time it takes you to deploy to the rate of failure when making changes. See the data summarized for yourself:
Top-Performing Organizations
- Several deploys per day
- Less than 1 day of lead time for changes
- Less than 1 hour to restore a service
- 0-15% change failure rate
Low Performing Organizations
- 1 to 6 deploys per month
- 1 – 6 months of lead time for changes
- 1 – 4 weeks to restore a service
- 40-60% change failure rate
Through our engagement with Headspring, we gained critical knowledge of microservices, DevOps, and project delivery best practices. Their team was friendly and extremely knowledgeable, delivering a thorough assessment that will get us to both our short- and long-term modernization goals fast.
What do DevOps services include?
DevOps touches so many aspects of your business. That’s why we strive to get to know everything we can about your people, processes, and your business. That way we can apply a truly holistic approach to DevOps transformation. The five facets we focus on are Continuous Delivery, Measurement, Architecture, Processes, and DevOps culture. Each of these components is critical to the other, and to your long term success.
DevOps Pipeline Assessment
Our DevOps Pipeline Assessment measures your current software development and operations maturity and identifies any gaps in skills, knowledge, and team structures. We look at everything from your current development process and deployment methods to your use of Infrastructure as Code and observability tools, then perform a deep analysis of your current pipeline performance. Once we have this holistic view of where you’re at, we offer tailored recommendations for optimizing your development and operations, along with a robust roadmap to guide us forward.
Are your delivery pipelines in working order?
Our experts will deliver the recommendations you need to start delivering better and faster. Schedule an intro call to get started!
DevOps Maturity Model
DevOps isn’t a product we deliver, it’s a process—or a journey, as we like to call it. We’ve guided many organizations through their DevOps transformation and have identified distinct benchmarks to measure progress. The DevOps Maturity model below helps us identify where you stand across five clearly-defined categories:
INITIAL
- Ad-hoc communication
- No automation
- Uncontrolled governance
- No quality standards
MANAGED
- Controlled communication & collaboration
- Ad-hoc automation
- Unstandardized governance
- Ad-hoc quality management
DEFINED
- Standard communication process
- Standardized automation
- Standardized governance
- Quality standards established
MEASURED
- Communication metrics in place
- Automation metrics measure progress
- Governance metrics measure process
- Quality metrics drive improvement
OPTIMIZED
- Communication, tools, and processes
- Automation maximizes throughput
- Optimized governance/adaptation
- Continuous quality improvement
INITIAL
- Ad-hoc communication
- No automation
- Uncontrolled governance
- No quality standards
MANAGED
- Controlled communication & collaboration
- Ad-hoc automation
- Unstandardized governance
- Ad-hoc quality management
DEFINED
- Standard communication process
- Standardized automation
- Standardized governance
- Quality standards established
MEASURED
- Communication metrics in place
- Automation metrics measure progress
- Governance metrics measure process
- Quality metrics drive improvement
OPTIMIZED
- Communication, tools, and processes
- Automation maximizes throughput
- Optimized governance/adaptation
- Continuous quality improvement
Our 5-step DevOps Implementation Process
As partners on your DevOps journey, our goal is to deliver value as quickly as we can. We’ve designed a five-step implementation process that starts with the most tangible component—your CI/CD pipelines—to get you on the ground running faster towards your optimization goals.
Continuous Delivery
A key first set: Set up robust continuous integration and delivery pipelines, complete with version control, automated deployment and automated testing, and data management
Measurement
Establish complete observability of the application and infrastructure and visualize work to monitor quality. These health-check measures are designed to drive data-driven decision making
Architecture
Create a domain-driven, event-oriented design that uses vertical slice architecture and promotes loose coupling of features. Focus on balancing autonomy with performance and establishing a cloud infrastructure
Process
Break processes down into small slices of work to deliver value faster and enable steady iteration. Leverage infrastructure automation and create room for team experimentation
DevOps Culture
Build a DevOps culture that drives success by fostering collaboration across teams, instilling a drive for growth, and promoting leaders committed to DevOps Transformation
What about DevOps in the Cloud?
Making DevOps part of your cloud infrastructure strategy can help you decrease time to market, increase reliability, and scale your project massively. Our DevOps expertise isn’t relegated to one cloud platform or another. We’ll make recommendations or help you leverage DevOps services and tools in the environment that works best for you.
Microsoft Azure Cloud
We’ll modernize your processes, from project management to automated releases, using Azure DevOps’ many services. Achieve ultimate scale with Docker and Kubernetes and refine your processes using DevOps Dashboards and Azure Application Insights.
Amazon Web Services
We can fully automate your CI/CD process in AWS using CodeBuild, CodePipeline, and CodeDeploy. We’ll codify your infrastructure with CloudFormation and guide you through maximizing observability with CloudWatch.
Google Cloud
We’ve got you covered on the Google Cloud front. We’ll help you fully automate your continuous integration and delivery to the cloud using Google Cloud Source Repositories and Google Cloud Build and implement your Infrastructure as Code with Terraform.
Stories from the field
DevOps is a passion of ours: Hear the stories of impact and dig into some of the technical thinking that drives our shared successes.
Azure DevOps: Boards and Repos
Let’s look at how Azure DevOps services help you manage productivity, identify bottlenecks, and monitor code changes.
Video: Azure Pipelines from Scratch
Learn how to build CI/CD pipelines successfully and seamlessly—no matter how complex your application.
Doing DevOps in the Cloud
See the differences between dogmatic and practical approaches to bringing DevOps into your cloud projects.
Client Spotlight
We believe there’s a better way to build and deliver software, and we find it by working to understand our partners’ teams, goals, and vision. It’s this collaborative approach that leads to software solutions that deliver maximum value for your business.
