DevOps and automated delivery

Automated builds, tests, security checks and deployments, so modernised applications can be released safely every week instead of nervously every quarter.

Improve your deliveryHow we do it

Modern code needs a modern way to ship it

Modernisation that stops at the code often disappoints in production. If releases are still manual, tests still run by hand and environments still drift, the new system inherits the old system's pace and its risks.

We build the delivery side alongside the application: pipelines, automated tests, infrastructure as code and GitOps, with security checks built in, so your team can release small changes often and roll back in minutes when it needs to.

When it fits

01

Releases need a war room

Every release is a weekend event with a long checklist, and nobody wants to do it often.

02

Testing is manual

Regression testing takes weeks, so changes are bundled into big, risky releases.

03

Environments differ

What passed in testing fails in production, because servers were built and patched by hand.

04

Audits ask who changed what

And the answer is spread across emails, tickets and spreadsheets.

What we do

CI/CD pipelines

GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins or OpenShift Pipelines that build, test, scan and package every change.

Test automation

Unit, API, user-interface and performance tests in the pipeline, with characterisation tests that protect legacy behaviour.

Infrastructure as code

Terraform, Ansible and Kubernetes manifests in Git, so every environment is built the same way, every time.

GitOps deployment

Argo CD or OpenShift GitOps deploying from Git, with approvals, an audit trail and one-step rollback.

DevSecOps

Code, dependency, container and configuration scanning, secrets management and signed artefacts in every pipeline.

Observability and SRE

Metrics, logs and traces with Prometheus, Grafana and OpenTelemetry, plus service-level objectives and on-call runbooks.

Measuring progress

Four numbers that show delivery is improving

We measure delivery the way the DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) programme does. We take a baseline at the start and track the same four measures as the pipeline matures, so improvement is visible rather than claimed.

Deployment frequency
How often changes reach production. The bars should rise.
Lead time for changes
How long a change takes from commit to production. The line should fall.
Change failure rate
How often a release causes a problem. The red share should shrink.
Time to restore
How quickly service comes back after a failure. The clock arc should shrink.

How we improve delivery

  1. 01

    Baseline

    Measure how you deliver today: release frequency, lead time, failure rate and recovery time.

  2. 02

    Build the pipeline

    Set up source control, CI, an artefact registry and automated tests for a first application.

  3. 03

    Automate environments

    Codify infrastructure and deployments, and move releases to GitOps with approvals.

  4. 04

    Scale and coach

    Roll out to more teams with templates, coach engineers and track the measures as they improve.

What you get

  • A delivery baseline and target measures
  • Pipelines as code for each application
  • Automated test suites and quality gates
  • Infrastructure as code for every environment
  • GitOps repositories with approval workflows
  • Dashboards for delivery and service health
  • Pipeline templates and a trained team

Platforms and tools

  • GitLab
  • GitHub Actions
  • Jenkins
  • OpenShift Pipelines
  • Argo CD and OpenShift GitOps
  • Terraform
  • Ansible
  • SonarQube
  • Trivy
  • HashiCorp Vault
  • Playwright and Selenium
  • k6 and JMeter
  • Prometheus and Grafana
  • OpenTelemetry
  • Backstage and Red Hat Developer Hub

Questions about DevOps

We already use GitLab. Do we need new tools?

Rarely. We prefer to get more from the tools you already own and add only what is missing.

How do we keep releases compliant?

Approvals, segregation of duties and a full audit trail are built into the pipeline and the Git history, which usually makes audits easier, not harder.

Does DevOps work for vendor applications?

Yes, for configuration, infrastructure and deployment, even where you can't change the code.

How is this different from your security services?

Here we build the delivery pipeline, and security checks are one stage of it. For runtime protection and platform security, see our cloud native security services.

Cloud native security

Make releases routine

Tell us how you build, test and release today. We'll baseline your delivery and suggest the first pipeline to automate.

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