DevOps Excellence

At Sieroka Consulting, we understand that effective DevOps practices are essential for modern software development. Our DevOps expertise helps organizations streamline their development processes, improve collaboration between development and operations teams, and deliver high-quality software faster and more reliably.

Our DevOps Experience

We have extensive experience setting up development and testing environments in both physical and virtual/cloud environments, including:

• Process Definition: Establishing clear processes for development, testing, and deployment
• Build Systems: Setting up automated build systems to ensure consistent and reliable builds
• CI/CD Pipelines: Implementing continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines
• Cloud Deployment: Experience with multiple cloud providers, including AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud

Cloud Expertise

Our cloud deployment and integration experience includes:

• Amazon Web Services (AWS):
  • EC2, ECS, and EKS for compute resources
  • S3 and EBS for storage solutions
  • RDS and DynamoDB for database services
  • CloudFormation for infrastructure as code
  • Lambda for serverless computing
• Microsoft Azure:
  • Azure Virtual Machines and App Services
  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Azure SQL Database and Cosmos DB
  • Azure Resource Manager templates
  • Azure Functions for serverless computing
• Google Cloud Platform:
  • Compute Engine and App Engine
  • Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
  • Cloud Storage and Cloud SQL
  • Deployment Manager for infrastructure as code
  • Cloud Functions for serverless computing

DevOps Tools and Technologies

We have experience with a wide range of DevOps tools and technologies, including:

• Version Control: Git, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket
• CI/CD: Jenkins, CircleCI, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Azure DevOps
• Configuration Management: Ansible, Chef, Puppet
• Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes, Docker Compose
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM Templates
• Monitoring and Logging: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Datadog
• Security: SonarQube, OWASP ZAP, Snyk, Vault

Our DevOps Services

We offer a comprehensive range of DevOps services to help organizations improve their development and deployment processes:

• DevOps Assessment: Evaluating your current processes and identifying opportunities for improvement
• CI/CD Implementation: Setting up automated build, test, and deployment pipelines
• Infrastructure Automation: Implementing infrastructure as code to ensure consistent and repeatable environments
• Containerization: Migrating applications to containerized environments for improved scalability and portability
• Cloud Migration: Moving applications and infrastructure to the cloud
• Monitoring and Observability: Implementing monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions
• DevSecOps: Integrating security into the development and deployment process
• Team Training: Educating development and operations teams on DevOps best practices

Case Study: DevOps Transformation

A software company was struggling with slow, manual deployment processes and frequent production issues:

Challenge: Transform a traditional development process with monthly releases and frequent issues into a modern DevOps approach with faster, more reliable deployments.

Approach:

• Assessed the current development and deployment processes
• Implemented Git for version control with a branching strategy
• Set up Jenkins for continuous integration
• Containerized applications using Docker
• Implemented Kubernetes for container orchestration
• Created infrastructure as code using Terraform
• Implemented automated testing at multiple levels
• Set up monitoring and alerting with Prometheus and Grafana

Results:

• Reduced deployment time from days to minutes
• Increased deployment frequency from monthly to daily
• Reduced production incidents by 70%
• Improved mean time to recovery (MTTR) by 80%
• Enhanced collaboration between development and operations teams