Dedicated teams from Aelius Venture provide DevOps consulting services that help your IT department accomplish the project at hand and adopt DevOps best practices in the process. We provide IT outsourcing and DevOps consulting in the UK and globally!
DevOps Consulting — The Shortest Way to Digital Transformation!
If you want your product to have a shorter time-to-market, more reliable software development lifecycle, more cost-efficient infrastructure management — DevOps methodology is the way to go. The best way to do it quickly is by hiring one of the DevOps consulting firms to deliver the required transition to DevOps, instead of trying to raise the team in-house. Aelius Venture has strong expertise in providing DevOps consulting services and we are glad to help your business!
Managed DevOps Transformation from Aelius Venture
Managed DevOps consulting services center at enabling automated software development and deployment, implementing Infrastructure as Code, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery pipelines, the cloud infrastructure monitoring, and Big Data analytics. Forming such a team in-house is a time-consuming task, so hiring external resources to deliver the needed expertise is the best decision for your business.
Dedicated DevOps Consulting
There are lots of areas where external DevOps expertise can be very beneficial for your business: IT infrastructure optimization, design, and implementation of cloud-native infrastructure, security and performance audit, system optimization, preparation of cloud migration to another provider, or transition to the cloud from legacy servers, etc. Aelius Venture can provide ready solutions to help you save time and money and not reinvent the wheel.
DevOps Training & COE
Aelius Venture can help your IT department learn the latest DevOps tools, trends, and best practices through remote Centers of Excellence, where our DevOps engineers will remotely explain how to configure and manage Terraform and Kubernetes clusters, Jenkins pipelines, Ansible playbooks, and other tools for infrastructure management automation.
DevOps Consulting Services from Aelius Venture
Many businesses understand the need to implement DevOps best practices in their daily operations. Why so? Because DevOps services are much more than a combination of Dev and Ops and offer a new level of efficiency for IT operations and software development. However, to reach this level the business must understand that simply putting developers and Ops engineers in a single room to work does not make the DevOps magic happen.
Aelius Venture provides DevOps consulting services for nearly 7 years now. We began in 2014. We have been a provider of remote system administration services for nearly a decade prior to discovering the benefits of DevOps and adopting it as the backbone of our workflows. Now we help our customers benefit from this technology by providing dedicated DevOps teams and quite successful DevOps consulting services.
How Does it Work Then?
Aelius Venture assesses the existing IT infrastructure. We communicate with business stakeholders and IT staff in place to create a detailed description of the systems, tools, and workflows in place.
We analyze the scheme of infrastructure used, the existing bottlenecks, and the room for improvement available. We also propose adjustments that will remove the bottlenecks and use all the potential of your infrastructure.
If the existing infrastructure has to be moved to the cloud, sometimes it’s better to rebuild it from scratch to avoid dragging old problems with you to the new hosting platform. This will allow using all the benefits of the cloud (scalability, high availability, containerization) and avoiding the limitations of traditional hardware servers.
If you already have the cloud infrastructure in place you might come to realize it is not implemented in the most cost-efficient way. In this case, Aelius Venture provides full-fledged cloud migration and infrastructure optimization services that result in robust, transparent, and well-thought-out cloud-agnostic solutions.
Sometimes the businesses are quite satisfied with their cloud infrastructure performance, yet want to use their machine-generated data more efficiently. In such cases, Aelius Venture can offer our vast expertise with building cloud logging and monitoring solutions, which ensure efficient alerting and detailed information on the issues. This leads to greatly increased efficiency of operations, shorter issue resolution time, and lays the basis for building self-healing infrastructure.
Infrastructure management is another area where DevOps consulting can be of use. We use our experience with building Machine Learning models to deploy Artificial Intelligence algorithms for the automation of infrastructure management. This way we ensure the ML model learns the normal patterns of operations and helps Ops engineers detect faster if an anomaly occurs.
The next level of DevOps consulting allows the building of a self-healing IT infrastructure. This means that the ML models not only monitor the system performance but also apply the predefined issue resolution scenarios to deal with fluctuations. This reduces the amount of human effort required to maintain the system, so your IT team can dedicate their efforts to improving the infrastructure instead of simply keeping it running.
DevOps methodology provides a huge boost to application development too. When all the software environments you need are codified in Terraform manifests and can be provisioned through a single command using high-performing Kubernetes clusters and Jenkins Pipelines. This way the developers can build, test and deploy new code without having ever to request anything from Ops and wait for a couple of hours for it to be done.
Teaching the businesses to work according to DevOps best practices and use open-source DevOps tools is quite a frequent request for DevOps consulting services. This is best done through establishing the Centers of Expertise, either on-site or through the means of remote communication. like Skype or Google Hangouts. Our DevOps engineers help your IT Staff understand the logic of DevOps operations and perform IT operations according to 3 main DevOps principles:
– Infrastructure as Code — describing the required infrastructure states through configurable Terraform manifests that are stored in the Version Control System like GitHub and are versioned by your team to cover all the use cases
– Continuous Integration — organizing the code development workflows in such a way that the code is built in small chunks and project branches are frequently integrated into the main project trunk. This approach ensures code consistency and helps avoid major bugs making it to production.
– Continuous Delivery — the second part of the CI/CD pair, the methodology of building continuous delivery pipelines, when every code commit becomes a release with 1 command. Jenkins and Ansible are used to perform various sequenced operations so that the automated unit tests are started with one command and new code batches are delivered to the staging and production environments automatically, through rolling updates. The same logic helps manage the scaling, load balancing, security, backup & restores of the production servers.
By working together on your project or accomplishing a minor pilot by your team Aelius Venture DevOps engineers can teach how to apply these 3 principles in practice.
Based on our experience, in order to be efficient, the DevOps team has to have certain roles, like DevOps visionary, Cloud Architect/System Reliability Engineer, Release Manager, DevSecOps, Dev+ engineer, Ops+engineer. Not all of them are needed for startups or small-to-medium enterprises, of course, and an experienced DevOps engineer can assume any of these roles. But in order to perform efficiently in these roles, people must understand the responsibilities involved and have the skills required.
This is essentially what DevOps consulting is all about — helping your IT staff accomplish your project and possibly teaching them to become DevOps engineers themselves in the process.
