DevOps & Cloud

This is a summary of the services we provide within the DevOps and Cloud branch.

DevOps

  • Best Practices for stability, safety, maintenance and high availability
  • Sustainable development with Infrastructure-as-Code, immutable Infrastructure, GitOps
  • Formation of mixed teams for operations and development
  • Site Reliability Engineering

Cloud

  • Service provision with Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud
  • Container orchestration with Kubernetes, OpenShift, Cloud Foundry, Amazon ECS, Service Mesh
  • Provisioning with Terraform, Cloud Formation, AWS CDK, Helm, Skaffold
  • Serverless architecture with AWS Lambda, AWS Fargate, Google Cloud Functions, Azure Functions
  • AWS cost optimisation
  • Microservices architecture

Installation and Management

  • Automated deployment and monitoring of applications
  • Containerization of applications with Docker
  • Configuration of web server farms and proxies with Apache, nginx, lighttpd, varnish, squid and haproxy
  • Installation of Java Application Servers such as Tomcat, WebLogic, Websphere and WildFly
  • Virtualization with VMware vSphere, libvirt, KVM, oVirt and VirtualBox
  • OpenStack Clustering with virtualized networks based on Open VSwitch
  • System management with Ansible, Salt, Puppet, Chef and CFEngine

Monitoring

  • Network and service monitoring with Grafana and Prometheus, Nagios, OMD, Munin and Zabbix
  • Central logging servers and log analysis with Splunk, Graylog2 and logcheck, Elasticsearch and Kibana
  • Alerting with PagerDuty, Opsgenie, Alertmanager
  • Chat Integration/ChatOps with Slack or MS Teams
  • Monitoring Services like DataDog, AWS CloudWatch, StackDriver

Databases

  • Design, operation and tuning for Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL and MySQL, Aurora, RDS
  • NoSQL with Elasticsearch, MongoDB, AWS DynamoDB, Azure Cosmos DB
  • Event and stream processing with Kafka and Amazon Kinesis

Security

  • Setup and operation of Public key infrastructures (PKI)
  • Best practices in cryptology and VPN with IPSec, SSL VPN or OpenVPN
  • Enterprise Identity Management with Kerberos and LDAP, IAM, SSO, SAML
  • User Management with Keycloak, Amazon Cognito, Okta
  • Secret and key management with HashiCorp Vault, AWS KMS
  • Implementation of network security, firewalls, intrusion detection & prevention, penetration tests