From the development machine to production
Many projects are well written and badly shipped: manual deployment, environments that drift apart, no visibility once live. I take on that whole journey.
- Reproducible environments, from the developer machine to production
- Automated, replayable deployment instead of manual releases
- A rollback path planned before it is needed
- Monitoring and alerts on what matters to your business
- Automated backups, and restores that are actually tested
AWS and Azure
I have deployed on both. The choice follows what you already run, your team's skills and your data location constraints, not a preference of mine. Migrating between providers for cosmetic reasons is expensive and returns nothing.
Containerisation and orchestration
Docker to freeze the runtime environment, Kubernetes when scale or availability justify it. Kubernetes on a project that does not need it adds a layer of complexity someone will have to maintain: I will tell you if that is your case.
Infrastructure as Code and pipelines
- Terraform, so the infrastructure lives in the repository and is versioned like code
- GitLab CI or GitHub Actions pipelines: test, build, deploy
- Secrets kept out of the codebase and handled properly
- Separate test and production environments
Observability
Prometheus and Grafana for metrics and dashboards, with alerts calibrated on symptoms you actually notice rather than arbitrary technical thresholds.
See the eleven documented projects
Frequently asked questions
My application is already live. Can you step in?
Yes, and that is often the most useful case. We start with a review of the existing deployment, then automate and instrument in stages, with no service interruption.
Is Kubernetes always necessary?
No. Plenty of applications run perfectly well on managed containers, which are simpler to operate. Kubernetes earns its place through scale, required availability, or an estate that is already orchestrated.
Who operates the infrastructure after your engagement?
Your teams, with documentation and a handover. Infrastructure nobody on your side understands is a risk, not a deliverable.