Project or retained

Deployments that are boring on purpose.

We build pipelines with automated validation, gated approvals and environment governance, so releasing is a routine event rather than a scheduled risk.

Service

DevOps & CI/CD

Engagement

Project or retained

Engagement

4 – 10 weeks

In short

What is DevOps and CI/CD?

DevOps and CI/CD consulting is the design of build and release pipelines with automated validation, gated approvals and environment governance, so that deploying becomes a routine event rather than a scheduled risk.

The problem

Release day should not be an event

When deployment is manual, it is rehearsed, scheduled and feared. Teams batch changes to reduce the number of scary days, which makes each day scarier. The fix is not heroics. It is a pipeline that validates automatically, promotes deliberately, and rolls back without a meeting.

Scope

What the engagement covers.

Anything outside this list is quoted separately rather than absorbed quietly.

Pipeline design in Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions

Build, test and static analysis stages with quality gates

Infrastructure as code deployment with plan review before apply

Environment promotion model with gated approvals and audit trail

Secret management and service connection hygiene

Dependency and container scanning in the pipeline, not after it

Rollback and recovery procedures that have actually been executed

Deliverables

What you are left holding.

Every item here is an artifact you own, in your systems, readable by someone who was not in the room.

Working pipelines

In your repository, running against your environments, owned by your team.

Branching and release policy

Written down and enforced in the tooling, not just agreed in a meeting.

Gate and approval matrix

Who approves what, at which environment boundary, and what evidence the gate records.

Runbook and rollback drill

We rehearse a rollback with your team before the engagement closes. An untested rollback is not a rollback.

Engagement: 4 – 10 weeks

Depends on how many applications and environments are in scope. We pilot one service end to end before scaling the pattern.

Fit

Who this is for, and who it is not.

We would rather lose the engagement at this paragraph than three weeks in.

A good fit if

Deployments are manual, infrequent or performed by one person
You have pipelines, but nobody trusts them and everyone has a workaround
You need an auditable trail of who approved which change to production

Not a fit if

You want a pipeline built and handed over with no change to how the team works
The underlying application cannot be deployed without downtime and nobody wants to address that

Questions

About DevOps and CI/CD.

Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions?

Whichever you already pay for and your team already knows. Both do this job well. The wrong answer is running both by accident, which is the situation we most often find.

How do we keep this working after you leave?

Your engineers write pipeline changes during the engagement, with us reviewing, rather than the reverse. By the closing rollback drill your team has already made the pipeline do something new without us.

Do you cover Kubernetes?

Yes, where it is already the right tool. We will also tell you when App Service or Container Apps would serve you better at a fraction of the operational cost.

Often paired with