DevOps Services

DevOps services can minimize your costs, increase efficiencies and speed up the product release cycle. With an “everything as code” mindset, it’s easy to deploy code updates quickly so that new features and bug fixes reach your customers sooner with far less risk. Cardinal Peak’s DevOps solutions automate the entire process pipeline, including builds, test cases, quality checks, security and more.

A DevOps mindset sees the entire process through launching updated software to be the responsibility of the development team, so that both development and operations are one team. Owning the entire process encourages our team to automate every step and manage infrastructure and system settings like the code is managed. In the past, IT operations were not tightly integrated into the development team, leading to delays and opportunities for miscommunication. In DevOps, we see continuous development, continuous integration, continuous testing and continuous deployment as one “continuous” process.

Our DevOps Consulting Services

Infrastructure as Code

We provision and manage infrastructure using code and software development techniques, such as version control and continuous integration. Utilizing the cloud’s API-driven model enables our developers and system administrators to interact with infrastructure programmatically — and at scale — instead of manually setting it up and configuring resources. The DevOps-as-a-service approach empowers our engineers to interface with infrastructure using code-based tools and treat the infrastructure similarly to application code. Defined by code, infrastructure and servers can quickly be deployed using standardized patterns, updated with the latest patches and versions, or duplicated in repeatable ways.

Configuration Management

Our developers use code to automate operating system and host configuration, operational tasks and more. The use of code makes configuration changes repeatable and standardized. It frees developers and admins from manually configuring operating systems, system applications or server software. Since manual operations can be fraught with error and are difficult to monitor, managing configuration as code dramatically reduces the risk of errors.

Security and other Policy as Code

With infrastructure and its configuration set up as code in the cloud, we can monitor and enforce compliance at scale. Since infrastructure that is described by code can be tracked, validated and reconfigured in an automated way, it’s easier to ensure security measures are properly enforced system-wide (e.g. information security or compliance with PCI-DSS or HIPAA). This allows us to move at higher velocity since non-compliant items can be automatically flagged for investigation.

Monitoring and Logging

We set up monitoring of metrics and logs to see how the application and infrastructure performance impacts the experience of end users. We automate the capture, categorization and analysis of data and logs generated by applications and infrastructure to understand how changes impact users. This helps us find the root causes of problems quickly. Creating alerts and performing real-time analysis of logs helps us proactively monitor your services.

Learn about our CloudOps services for managing and optimizing the software operations for our product.