Overview
When deploying is a manual procedure only one person can perform, releases become rare and frightening, which makes each one bigger and riskier. The goal of this work is boring deployments: small, frequent, automated, reversible.
What we do
- Cloud migration to AWS, Azure or Google Cloud, planned around what has to stay running during the move.
- Infrastructure as code in Terraform, version-controlled and reviewed, so environments are reproducible and staging genuinely matches production.
- Containerisation with Docker, and orchestration sized to the problem — often ECS or Cloud Run rather than Kubernetes, which we recommend only when the complexity is genuinely justified.
- CI/CD pipelines where every commit is built, tested and scanned, the same artefact is promoted through environments, and rollback is one rehearsed command.
- Monitoring and alerting on latency, errors, saturation and uptime, with alerts tied to user-visible symptoms and runbooks for the ones that fire.
- Security hardening — least-privilege IAM, managed secrets, private subnets, image scanning and audit logging.
Cost
Cloud bills grow quietly. We tag resources so spend is attributable, right-size against real utilisation, use reserved capacity for predictable load, apply storage lifecycle policies, shut down non-production environments overnight, and set budget alerts. On infrastructure that has never been reviewed, reductions of 30–40% without touching performance are common.
Disaster recovery
Backups automated, off-site, encrypted — and restored in a test, because an untested backup is a hypothesis. You get a documented recovery procedure with a measured recovery time, written before the incident rather than during it.
What you get
- Infrastructure defined in code and rebuildable from scratch.
- An automated pipeline with tests, scanning and one-command rollback.
- Monitoring, alerting and runbooks.
- A tested disaster recovery procedure with a measured RTO.
- A cost review with specific, quantified savings.
The target is a deployment nobody would hesitate to run on a Friday.