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CI/CD Configuration
Fast Delivery of New Functions to Production
Automation of Application Building and Deployment
Our Services_
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Server Infrastructure Maintenance
After we’re done, your technical support will start having too much free time
- Building a reliable infrastructure from scratch or optimize an already existing one.
- Ensuring the integration of information services into the infrastructure.
- Migrating the infrastructure.
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CI/CD
We make an infrastructure suitable for automation and reuse
- Introducing all necessary technologies to build a CI/CD process.
- Automating building, testing, versioning, publishing, and deployment of applications.
- Codifying the infrastructure (IaC).
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Cloud Solution Optimization
We can help you save money on cloud services
- Auditing your existing infrastructure.
- Optimizing its usage.
- Solving performance issues.
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Logging and Monitoring
We can prevent faults and reduce the risk of downtime
- Deploying and configuring a monitoring system.
- Implementing systems for logs collection and storage.
- Setting up effective monitoring tools.
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Increasing the System Fault Tolerance
We can quickly and safely ensure the required level of fault tolerance
- Analyzing and optimizing the performance of services and web applications.
- Clustering critical components of the system (we work with the Kubernetes cluster).
- Deploying a backup system.
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Setup and Maintenance of Virtual Environments
We can ensure efficient use of resources
- Setting up and organizing support for virtual and container-based environments.
Why choose SoftwareCats?
- We can work on large and complex projects and implement DevOps methods in a technically correct way.1
- We have extensive experience and strong engineering expertise.2
- Rather than focusing on a single technology, we can work with any stack.3
- We can provide the best custom solution to achieve your goals within your budget.4
Technologies
Gitlab
Teamcity
Jenkins
The DevOps methodology (approach) is aimed at automation of software building, configuration, and deployment processes. It optimizes creation and updates of software products and services. The principal idea of DevOps, which every team employs as a culture of product creation, is based on deep correlation of product creation and software operation.
Currently, a DevOps engineer is usually a person who is responsible for stable and correct operation of a product's IT infrastructure and helps the development team seamlessly deliver the program code to the production server.
What are the actual tasks of DevOps? Nowadays, the main DevOps tasks faced by the engineers are to help development teams with issues related to fast delivery of IT product functionality to end users, to resolve infrastructure issues, as well as to configure and maintain service tools, such as monitoring services. Following the correct and optimized DevOps processes helps the development avoid wasting extra time for unnecessary interactions with the infrastructure.
If you don't have a DevOps team, you can outsource DevOps tasks or oustaff a DevOps specialist or an entire DevOps team. Software Cats' skilled DevOps specialists will be happy to offer the most suitable solution to your DevOps needs based on their extensive experience.
Currently, a DevOps engineer is usually a person who is responsible for stable and correct operation of a product's IT infrastructure and helps the development team seamlessly deliver the program code to the production server.
What are the actual tasks of DevOps? Nowadays, the main DevOps tasks faced by the engineers are to help development teams with issues related to fast delivery of IT product functionality to end users, to resolve infrastructure issues, as well as to configure and maintain service tools, such as monitoring services. Following the correct and optimized DevOps processes helps the development avoid wasting extra time for unnecessary interactions with the infrastructure.
If you don't have a DevOps team, you can outsource DevOps tasks or oustaff a DevOps specialist or an entire DevOps team. Software Cats' skilled DevOps specialists will be happy to offer the most suitable solution to your DevOps needs based on their extensive experience.
Q&A
CI/CD is one of the core DevOps techniques. CI stands for Continuous Integration, and CD stands for Continuous Delivery.
It is a set of principles, techniques, and tools that allow IT teams to quickly and reliably deliver new functions and product changes to end users. The main goal of CI is to consistently and automatically build, package, and test applications with a 100% chance of reproduction. When CI is completed, it’s time for CD. It ensures automated deployment of applications and their changes to the appropriate environments (Production, Staging, Testing, etc.). Having configured CI/CD pipelines is a necessary and convenient tool for virtually any development project now, regardless of its stack and programming language.
It is a set of principles, techniques, and tools that allow IT teams to quickly and reliably deliver new functions and product changes to end users. The main goal of CI is to consistently and automatically build, package, and test applications with a 100% chance of reproduction. When CI is completed, it’s time for CD. It ensures automated deployment of applications and their changes to the appropriate environments (Production, Staging, Testing, etc.). Having configured CI/CD pipelines is a necessary and convenient tool for virtually any development project now, regardless of its stack and programming language.
Having CI/CD in place allows the development team to quickly and smoothly release and deploy changes of the product at any time without human intervention. It means the following:
- New functions can be quickly built and delivered to the desired environment, including production servers accessible to end customers literally at one click.
- All build stages are automated, i.e. they do not require manual work by expensive IT specialists and exclude the human factor.
- Running automated tests significantly reduces the risk of business logic being broken by incorrect changes to the production environment.
- The tools used also allow you to see the actual building stage, as well as to understand why a particular build failed.
- By implementing CI/CD methods, teams release functions faster, more often, and with fewer issues.
There are currently many tools available for CI/CD, most of which are open source.
The choice of a tool depends on your specific requirements, current infrastructure, and preferred ecosystem.
We regularly assist with the deployment and configuration of tools, such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, TeamCity, and others.
The choice of a tool depends on your specific requirements, current infrastructure, and preferred ecosystem.
We regularly assist with the deployment and configuration of tools, such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, TeamCity, and others.
We can help you set up CI/CD from scratch, make changes to pipelines based on the changes in the build and delivery processes, and assist in migrating to other build tools.
We start by discussing your current development processes and infrastructure and getting your expectations and tools requirements. Then we quickly implement the build pipelines using the chosen technologies. In the final step, we document the new process and, if necessary, organize a meeting and demonstrate new tools to your development team.
We start by discussing your current development processes and infrastructure and getting your expectations and tools requirements. Then we quickly implement the build pipelines using the chosen technologies. In the final step, we document the new process and, if necessary, organize a meeting and demonstrate new tools to your development team.
One of the main security risks in the building and deployment process is how passwords and other credentials are used and stored throughout the pipeline. To store sensitive data and work with it, we use special repositories where all data is stored in the encrypted form, such as HashiCorp Vault.
Before the work is started, all engineers are registered in all CI/CD tools—no shared accounts are used. In addition, we strongly recommend organizing pipelines in such a way that they are only accessible from the internal network, without external access.
Before the work is started, all engineers are registered in all CI/CD tools—no shared accounts are used. In addition, we strongly recommend organizing pipelines in such a way that they are only accessible from the internal network, without external access.
We analyze current processes and tools, identify integration points, set up CI/CD pipelines to automate existing tasks, provide documentation, and organize demonstration of functions and capabilities if needed for your team to ensure a smooth transition from manual to automated tools.
CI/CD configuration involves several stages: analysis of current processes, selection and approval of suitable tools, development and configuration of pipelines, integration with version control systems and continuous integration servers, connection of automated testing (if available), deployment, and monitoring in existing environments. In the final stage, we document the result and offer a demonstration for the team if necessary.
CI/CD automates the building, testing, and deployment processes that allows teams to release updates faster and more often. This reduces the risk of errors caused by manual deployment and provides a more predictable and manageable release process. In addition, if a project has a good coverage of key business scenarios with automated tests, CI/CD prevents changes which could break these business scenarios from reaching production environments.
We integrate automated testing at all stages of CI/CD—from unit tests to integration and load tests. This allows us to identify and fix bugs in a timely manner, ensuring high code quality and system stability.
You can expect shorter release times for updates, fewer human errors, increased development team efficiency, and improved system reliability.
We provide a full range of DevOps services in the Linux stack for our clients.
We can:
In addition, we can migrate your infrastructure to a cloud provider of your choice and optimize the cost of the cloud infrastructure.
We can:
- audit your infrastructure;
- organize load testing;
- improve performance;
- help with transition to the Infrastructure as Code (IaC) approach;
- set up monitoring and notifications;
- virtualize and containerize your infrastructure (Docker, Kubernetes, or k8s), as well as find and fix any issues in your infrastructure in general.
In addition, we can migrate your infrastructure to a cloud provider of your choice and optimize the cost of the cloud infrastructure.
