DevOps Consulting Services
Transform Your IT Operations with DevOps
DevOps is a methodology designed to align development and operation teams to deliver high-quality software faster. Since 2014, Etelligens has offered end-to-end DevOps consulting services to help you achieve increased frequency and reliability of software releases.
Is It Time to Turn to DevOps Consulting?
DevOps consulting may be the answer if you feel concerned about:
- Differences in the configurations of development, testing, and production environments.
- The slow manual process of providing new IT infrastructure.
- Time-consuming infrastructure modifications, software updates, and bug fixing.
- The lack of collaboration between teams (development, testing, system administration, and security) resulting in slow software delivery and low software quality.
- Post-release errors affecting user or customer experience or business operations.
- A slow and inefficient testing process due to insufficient test automation.
DevOps Services by Etelligens
End-to-end DevOps Implementation Consulting
We can help you leverage connected and automated development, testing, and deployment of your applications at any stage of your app's life cycle by:
- Applying the Infrastructure as a Code (IaaC) approach.
- Applying app module containerization.
- Setting up continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
- Introducing test automation.
- Introducing automated application monitoring.
DevOps Project Recovery Consulting
Our experienced recovery team helps:
- Find and fix collaboration problems between development, testing, and operations teams.
- Identify and fill in knowledge gaps in DevOps tools and methodologies.
- Cope with technical problems (e.g., CI/CD configuration errors).
- Optimize the automated testing coverage, and more.
DevOps Launch Consulting
- Carrying out strategic planning.
- Developing a detailed DevOps implementation roadmap.
- Upskilling your team in DevOps tools and ways of working.
- Assisting in the DevOps solution setup.
DevOps Tech Consulting
- Choosing, installing, and configuring the right tools for an efficient DevOps environment.
- Upskilling your team in the DevOps techs used.
Managed DevOps Services and DevOps Outsourcing
Our dedicated DevOps teams can take full responsibility for the implementation, 24/7/365 monitoring, management, and ntinuous improvement of your DevOps processes.
- IaaC, CI/CD, containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.).
- Test automation.
- Cloud infrastructure management (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, etc.), cloud cost optimization.
- Continuous security (firewalls, vulnerability scanning, access control).
- Application, web server, deployment logging.
- Performance management.
- Incident management, backup, and disaster recovery.
Sample End-To-End DevOps Implementation Scenario
Plan
What we do:
- Analyze the current software development cycle, available IT resources, and your IT infrastructure.
- Map business expectations, identify IT capabilities, and constraints.
- Devise DevOps implementation strategy.
Create Roadmap
What we do:
- Design the containerization approach (based on Kubernetes or Apache Mesos).
- Design the CI/CD approach, define and configure CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GoCD).
- Advise on the test automation approach (usually based on Selenium and Appium) and integration of continuous testing into the CI/CD pipeline.
- Design integration of IaaC and configuration management tools (Ansible, Chef, and Puppet) with CI/CD tools (GoCD, Jenkins, Bamboo).
- Design an automated monitoring solution (based on Zabbix or Nagios).
- Locate DevOps-specific challenges (e.g., the lack of necessary competencies, legacy applications difficult to containerize) and elaborate on their solutions.
Execute
What we do:
- Upskill your IT system administrators, project managers, program managers, delivery managers, developers, software test engineers, and other DevOps practitioners in the required DevOps tools and processes.
- Introduce the IaaC approach.
- Assist in the deployment and configuration of CI/CD and test automation tools.
Support
What we do:
- Mentor your DevOps practitioners to achieve the set DevOps implementation objectives.
- Maintain the operability of the software infrastructure, implement changes in it, ensure a proper load distribution within your IT environment.
DevOps-Specific Challenges You Can Face and We Can Solve
Challenge 1:
Resistance of Employees to the DevOps Implementation
Solution: Etelligens’s DevOps consultants provide proper training for your development, QA and testing, operations specialists to improve their teamwork skills and achieve their full adoption of DevOps tools and processes (e.g., CI/CD, infrastructure automation).
Challenge 2:
Uncertainty about Technologies to Implement the DevOps Initiative
Solution: Considering your DevOps implementation plan, Etelligens’s DevOps experts will help you to choose an appropriate set of containerization, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, and other tools aligned with your team’s needs, and configure them correctly.
Challenge 3:
Difficulty in Adapting Legacy Applications to DevOps
Solution: We suggest opting for application modernization, including application re-hosting, reengineering, and recoding, to overcome difficulties with adapting your legacy applications to DevOps.
Frequently Asked Questions
1. What does a DevOps consultant do?
A DevOps consultant plays a crucial role in evaluating existing infrastructure and processes, pinpointing areas that need enhancement, and devising a comprehensive plan to address these improvements. They ensure the implementation of this plan to streamline operations and boost overall efficiency.
2. What services are offered by DevOps?
DevOps services break down barriers between different teams, enabling them to collaborate on a unified platform. This approach leads to numerous benefits, including a growing user base, higher customer satisfaction, enhanced system stability, and an accelerated development process. Additionally, it reduces complexity and allows for faster issue resolution, significantly improving overall operational efficiency.
3. Which tool is mostly used in DevOps?
Puppet is a highly popular DevOps tool that streamlines the delivery and release of technology changes, making the process both quick and frequent. Its key features include versioning, automated testing, and continuous delivery. Puppet allows you to manage your entire infrastructure as code efficiently, without the need to expand your team size.
4. Does DevOps require coding?
Absolutely. Coding is a fundamental skill for anyone working in DevOps. Without it, you won't be able to effectively manage or automate tasks using code repositories.
5. Will AI replace DevOps?
AI is unlikely to completely replace DevOps professionals. Instead, it will serve as a powerful collaboration tool, enhancing human capabilities and enabling them to achieve more. AI tools still need human oversight and configuration to function effectively.
