DevOps consulting for dependable software releases

Improve how changes reach production

Manual releases, inconsistent environments and unclear ownership make software harder to deliver and support. A deployment pipeline should help the team understand what is changing, whether the important checks passed and how to recover if something goes wrong.

Our DevOps consulting starts with the development and release process you already have. We review the application, hosting, tests and operational responsibilities before recommending tools or a migration. Moving to a different cloud provider is useful only if it addresses a defined constraint and justifies the effort.

Make the release process repeatable

We help design or improve the build, test and deployment workflow around your team. That may mean establishing continuous integration, improving unreliable checks, separating environments or reducing manual configuration that only one person understands.

The scope covers how source changes become release artefacts, which checks run and who approves production changes. Access controls, secrets, logs and environment settings need ownership alongside the pipeline itself. We also discuss database migrations, rollback limits and the checks needed after a release.

Automation does not remove release decisions. It should make the available evidence clearer and reduce avoidable variation between deployments.

Infrastructure shaped around the application

A hosting review considers traffic, data, background processing, external services and the application’s operating constraints. We examine where capacity or configuration creates a problem, how costs are understood and what would be involved in any change.

Where infrastructure as code or containerisation is appropriate, we agree the scope and the skills needed to maintain it. We work with your existing platform and confirm relevant expertise before taking responsibility for an unfamiliar environment.

Delivery experience: Catalyst Notify

For Catalyst Notify, we adapted the open-source GOV.UK Notify application for civil society organisations. The work included GitHub Actions for automated testing and deployment, Docker configuration and deployment to AWS.

We also improved documentation for local development and open-source contribution. This mattered because a usable delivery process includes the people who need to understand and change it after the initial setup.

How do we work with your team?

We can deliver a defined improvement alongside your developers or include DevOps within a wider engineering engagement. We agree access, review responsibilities and knowledge transfer before changing production workflows.

For ongoing application ownership, explore support and maintenance. If the main problem is recurring production failures, our site reliability engineering service focuses on measuring and improving reliability. An initial conversation can establish the current process, its constraints and the first improvement worth testing.