# DevOps: CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, observability, and security.

URL: https://extra.dev/services/devops

**Infrastructure that keeps delivery moving**

DevOps infrastructure designed for repeatable releases, resilient platforms and uninterrupted service.

## A clear path from change to production

DevOps brings together the infrastructure and operating practices that carry software from development into live service. We create the deployment pipelines, environments, access controls and monitoring that make releases repeatable and show teams how services are performing.
Security, resilience, cost and recovery are planned as part of the platform from the start. Teams have a reliable release process, the information to manage live services and established procedures for responding to issues.

What this includes:
- **Cloud & infrastructure engineering**: Designing, provisioning and migrating cloud, hybrid and privately hosted infrastructure, managed consistently as code.
- **Build & release automation**: Automating software builds, checks and deployments across consistent environments, with controlled releases and reliable rollback.
- **Monitoring & observability**: Providing metrics, logs, traces, dashboards and alerts that make service health visible and support effective diagnosis.
- **Security & access management**: Managing access, credentials, infrastructure protections and delivery controls, with the technical evidence required for compliance where relevant.
- **Reliability & recovery**: Engineering availability, backups and disaster recovery, with tested procedures for incident response and service restoration.
- **Performance & cost optimisation**: Optimising capacity, scaling and resource use to keep services responsive as demand changes while controlling infrastructure costs.

How we work:
- **Priorities based on service requirements**: Availability, performance, delivery speed and operating cost are considered in terms of what the service needs. Metrics, incident history and delivery bottlenecks guide which improvements are made first.
- **Infrastructure and releases kept repeatable**: Infrastructure, configuration and deployment changes are kept in version control and reviewed before use. Automated pipelines apply them consistently across environments, with controlled rollout, security checks and a clear rollback path.
- **Service health visible and actionable**: Metrics, logs and traces are selected around the questions operators need to answer. Dashboards and alerts show service health, highlight meaningful changes and connect each alert to a defined action.
- **Recovery tested and improved**: Backups, rollback and service restoration are tested against realistic scenarios. Incident findings are reviewed, actions are assigned and operating procedures are updated as the platform changes.

Stack: Cloud: AWS, GCP, Azure, Cloudflare, Hetzner, DigitalOcean, Heroku, Coolify · Runtime: Docker, Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, AWS Lambda, AWS ECS, Ansible, Helm, Traefik · Delivery: Terraform, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Bitbucket, CircleCI, Dependabot, Pulumi, AWS KMS · Observability: Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Sentry, Loki.

Questions we get about this discipline:
- **Can you improve our existing infrastructure without moving platforms?** Yes. We start with the service requirements and the current setup, then prioritise improvements to releases, visibility, security, reliability and cost. A migration is recommended only when it addresses a clear limitation.
- **Will changes to our infrastructure interrupt the service?** The approach depends on the systems involved, but continuity is planned into the work. Changes are reviewed, tested and introduced with monitoring and a rollback path appropriate to their risk.
- **Can you help with security and audit requirements?** Yes, on the engineering side. We can implement and document controls such as access management, logging, backups and change records. Where formal certification or an audit is required, we work alongside the people responsible for that process.
- **Who monitors and operates the platform after the work is complete?** We agree that responsibility as part of the engagement. We can continue operating the platform, work alongside your team or hand over the dashboards, alerts and procedures needed for your team to run it.
- **How do you control cloud costs while improving reliability?** We examine usage, capacity, service requirements and the cost of the current architecture. Improvements are assessed against both operating cost and the availability and performance the service needs.

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