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DevOps & Deployment

Ship confidently — automated pipelines, containerised deployments and zero-downtime releases with monitoring built in.

DevOps & Deployment — an illustration of the tools and systems involved

What we deliver

10 services in this discipline. Each one says what it includes and how we approach it — no jargon, no vague promises.

    01

    CI/CD Pipeline Setup

    Automated test-and-deploy on every push, with a manual gate wherever you want one.

    Every push runs the tests, builds the artefact and deploys to the environment you nominate, with a manual approval gate for production if you want one. Rollback becomes a button rather than an emergency. Build times are kept short deliberately, because a slow pipeline is one people learn to bypass.

    02

    GitHub Actions

    Workflows for building, testing, releasing and running scheduled jobs.

    Workflows for build, test, lint, release and scheduled jobs, with caching so runs stay fast and secrets managed through the proper mechanisms. Reusable workflows where you have several similar repositories, so a change is made once rather than seven times. Permissions are scoped down from the defaults.

    03

    Docker Deployment

    Reproducible container deployments with sensible image and registry practices.

    Multi-stage builds for small images, pinned base versions, health checks, and a registry strategy that doesn't leave you pulling latest and hoping. The same image is promoted through environments rather than rebuilt at each stage, which removes a whole class of surprises. Container logs and metrics are wired into your monitoring.

    04

    Application Deployment

    Getting your app onto production properly — config, secrets, process management and logs.

    Configuration and secrets separated from code, process supervision, log output to a central location, and a documented deploy procedure. The goal is a setup where a new engineer can deploy safely on their first day. Deployments are repeatable, so the process is the same at 3pm on a Tuesday and during an incident.

    05

    Zero Downtime Deployment

    Rolling releases so users never hit an error page while you're shipping.

    New instances start and pass health checks before old ones are drained, so users never see an error page during a release. Database migrations are sequenced to remain compatible with both versions during the changeover, which is the part most teams get wrong. Rollback is tested as part of setting it up.

    06

    Environment Configuration

    Clean separation of development, staging and production settings and secrets.

    Development, staging and production kept genuinely separate, with their own secrets and no shared database by accident. Parity between staging and production is close enough that staging actually predicts behaviour. Secrets are stored in a proper secret store rather than committed and forgotten.

    07

    Performance Optimization

    Find the actual bottleneck before spending money on larger servers.

    Measure, find the real constraint, fix it, then measure again to confirm. Frequently the answer is a missing database index or an N+1 query rather than more hardware, which makes it far cheaper to solve. You get the before-and-after numbers, not an assurance that it feels faster.

    08

    Infrastructure Automation

    Servers defined in code, so rebuilding one is a command rather than a memory test.

    Servers and services defined in code so rebuilding is repeatable, reviewable and fast. Recovering from a lost machine becomes a scripted procedure instead of an archaeology exercise through old notes. Changes go through the same review process as application code.

    09

    Monitoring & Logging

    Centralised logs and metrics that make debugging a five-minute job.

    Centralised structured logs, metrics and alerting, so debugging starts with evidence rather than a series of SSH sessions. Dashboards cover the handful of numbers that genuinely indicate trouble, rather than fifty that nobody reads. Log retention is set to match how far back you'd realistically need to look.

    10

    Security Auditing

    A review of dependencies, permissions and exposed surfaces, delivered with a fix list.

    A review of dependencies, permissions, exposed services, secrets handling and configuration, delivered as a prioritised list with concrete fixes rather than an alarming PDF. Each finding includes the actual risk in your context, since not every warning matters equally. We can implement the remediation as well as report it.

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