Do you want to have a high-performance vehicle, continuously improving your application? Surely, yes! That's why it's time to outsource DevOps functions to a dedicated team and let your developers focus on product release rather than on its maintenance.
Alpacked outsourced DevOps services let you offload your development team, while we work on creating the work systems that enable dev teams to be more productive and deliver better results.
10
Years of experience in IT
30%
Shorter time-to-market delivery
100+
Successfully completed projects
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Benefits of DevOps outsourcing
As compared to traditional in-house team
Precise KPIs defined
The KPIs is the best indicator of performance. When you sign a SLA agreement, you arrange all KPIs, that directly reflect your business needs. It's achievement = success of the project.
Comprehensive skill set
DevOps outsourcing companies usually practice such approach as inter-project staff switch. Such step outside the comfort zone allows them to train and educate staff to work with different technologies and handle more unexpected cases.
Cost-efficiency
Usually there is no fixed payments as it comes with an in-house staff. DevOps outsourcing companies allow flexible tariffs according to your needs here and now.
Knowledge share
DevOps engineers as any other IT gurus love to share knowledge and brainstorm the ideas to solve the challenges. It's always a good idea to look at the issue from the different angle and find the best solution for it!
Independency of IT staff turnover
It's not a constraint anymore if a specialist leaves. The substitution will be found immediately, not interrupting the work processes.
Flexible human resources
You can involve more engineers or request more hours, when there is any urgent task and decrease the resources, when you need only maintenance or support.
Our DevOps services
We provide end-to-end solutions of any complexity. With our DevOps outsourcing offering you get tangible results and quick turnaround.
DevOps in cloud
- Cloud architecture design
- Cloud readiness assessment
- Cloud migration services
- Managed cloud services
- Cloud consulting services
Serverless
- Serverless architecture
- Serverless maintanance
- Serverless consulting
Microservices
- Microservices architecture
design - Microservices consulting
DevOps outsourcing
- DevOps assessment & audit
- DevOps implementation from scratch - roadmapping and strategy design
- DevOps consulting
- Release management
Infrastructure as code
- Infrastructure automation
- Infrastructure as code implementation in a cloud
- Infrastructure as code implementation on-prem
CI/CD
- Continuous integration (CI) implementation
- Continuous delivery (CD) implementation
- CI/CD consulting
Container orchestration
- Container orchestration
- Container management services
- Security evaluation and hardening
- Kubernetes managed services
Log management and monitoring
- Log management
- Monitoring
- Reporting
- Alerting
Сloud solutions
We offer advanced DevOps in cloud services to the following public cloud providers besides hybrid, multi-cloud, and private solutions.
Why choose us as your DevOps outsourcing company?
Quality
Any task completed by our DevOps engineer will pass internal quality control before delivery. That's the rule we never break!
Support 24/7
Our DevOps managers are always ready to answer your questions. You can call us on the weekends and at night. Because we are time zone and culturally aligned.
Experience
ALPACKED - DevOps as a Service company that has more than 10 years of IT experience. Certified in many technologies & methodologies.
Great rates
We have special prices for our loyal customers and startups.
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DevOps FAQ
Have other questions? Email us!
sales@alpacked.io
Which stack of technologies do you use?
We work with all trending technologies, allowing easy DevOps implementation
What are the best practices for DevOps implementation inside the company?
Huh, it's a kind of a very abstract question. Each business case is unique and has its own needs / requirements, whatever. There are no well-trodden paths suitable for everyone. Anyway, we have 6 principles we advise our clients and partners to follow:
- Think as if you were your customer. Any action taken and decision made should be customer-centric. This would help scale business and add more value.
- Each team member is responsible for his / her tasks. End-to-end responsibility allows deliver quality results and perk up a team.
- Continuous enhancement and feedback as a background for further improvements. DevOps philosophy believes in CI/CD, which stands for continuous implementation and development, allowing the product / application / software become more user-friendly from all sides - both technical and personal sides.
- Automate unautomatable. Automation allows increasing productivity of development and eliminating of the repeatable manual tasks, causing errors and downtimes.
- Well-tuned collaboration among ALL teams (yes, it concerns everyone in the organization). Gaps in communication cause further fails in successful operations.
- To provide the best quality of a deliverable - test and monitor continuously. Without proper testing and monitoring, even the best engineer in the world won't be able to deliver an absolutely stable operation.
Discover our article on DevOps anti-patterns that need urgent destruction!
What will I get within DevOps as a service?
Offering DevOps as a service to our clients, we offer the following:
- Delivering managed services across all directions: DevOps, cloud solutions, serverless architecture, CI/CD, container orchestration, log management & monitoring, infrastructure automation, and others, on-demand.
- Professional advisory services, if you are just getting started to run your business and want to know all IT pitfalls.
What problems does DevOps solve?
Almost all organizations face these problems:
- long time-to-market delivery because of poor understanding of what's going on within a team;
- error-prone infrastructure with millions of manual changes;
- no time to focus on business.
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When can I adopt DevOps?
It's never too late or too early to start. The sooner you start, the quicker you establish proper processes within a team and tune the tools needed for proper functioning.
How does DevOps help an organization?
An organization benefits, first of all, from properly established business processes and smooth workflow, each gear in a team works properly. As a bonus, almost all boring manual tasks are automated. Thus, your dev team is fully focused on improvements and adding new features.
Are there any disadvantages?
There are two sides of the same coin. Sometimes even giant companies experience difficulties during the DevOps implementation. Some teams are not ready for big changes and do really believe in "it's easier to make by hands quickly, rather than automate and handle with a new tool".
Are there any KPIs?
Sure! You have to track dozens of metrics to comply with the best practices, for instance:
- Release plan, %;
- Planning complete, %;
- Development complete, %;
- Build success rate, %;
- Test success rate, %;
- Success rate, %;
- Total incidents, total;
- Successful builds, total;
- Successful deployments, total;
- Incidents, total;
- Resolved incidents, total;
- Time to build, hh:mm:ss;
- Time to test, hh:mm:ss;
- Average time to deploy, hh:mm:ss;
- Average time to resolve incidents, hh:mm:ss;
More about DevOps outsourcing services
DevOps outsourcing means a swift access to the brilliant minds for successful software engineering
DevOps best practices and methodologies demonstrate independent, quick and safe development, integration, test performance and deployment while the company have a well-designed architecture, a right tool set, automation, and, of, course, right cultural norms.
What will you get with an outsourced DevOps team
- DevOps expert(s) working on your project
- Support 24/7
- Personal manager coordinating proper communication and task management
- Continuous consultations and knowledge sharing about DevOps principles and best practices
Types of DevOps outsourcing
- Hourly
- Part-time
- Full-time
Yes, someone loves it, someone doesn't recognize it, but DevOps outsourcing services became almost a standard for business of any sphere. And if you are here on this page, you probably consider outsourcing of your DevOps to a dedicated team, right? Let's uncover all best practices you can leverage and all challenges you can face on your road!
As experience showed, companies usually turn to DevOps outsourcing companies because they want to reduce cost and number of human resources. Reduced labor / project cost is still the reason #1, because outsourcing is less expensive than in-house delivery and the has better quality compared to freelancer resources.
Nevertheless, there are other reasons, including:
- Flexibility. Agree terms and conditions, hours and a number of employees working on your project. Request more hours and team members, when you have more work to be done within a tight deadline and reduce it all when everything is done and you need only the support. It's all like autoscaling in Clouds.
- Scaling and previous best practices. When you turn to DevOps service providers, you get a ready out-of-box solution how to build / grow your company. They, probably, have already worked with similar projects and can help you avoid the mistakes made by someone. No need to develop your in-house capability from scratch.
- Time management. Offload your planner, all tasks are scoped, managed and checked on the side of your service provider.
- Specialist skills. in DevOps companies, staff usually shares knowledge and skills, thus, a team working on your project has access to more technologies and approaches.
Thus, DevOps outsourcing appears as a multi-level solution for many companies of any size - from startup to enterprise and, usually, these companies pursue more goals, besides only financial benefit.
Outsourcing best practices
Before getting started with delegating your DevOps, learn our insights to hit the target on the first try.
1. Establish smart goals and understand what you want to have as a result. Try to eliminate abstract expressions and set the clearest objectives with figures / percentages, timelines. For example:
| Badly established goal | Smart goal |
|---|---|
| I want to deliver updates on my application fast. | I want to deliver updates of my application as fast as 15 minutes. |
| I want to pay less for my cloud maintenance. | I expect my cloud expenses to be a maximum $700 in 2 months. |
| I need my application to process data swiftly. | I need my application to process data 30% faster. |
Establishing proper smart goals, you help your potential vendors access the scopes of the project and deliver the result you expected to get.
2. Assess your budget and timelines of the project. Focus on getting quality delivery rather than low cost of services and implementation speed.
3. Check the portfolio and ask for references. It's very important to examine the DevOps agency's previous experience and projects and make sure it meets your requirements for quality and style.
4. Designate the zone of responsibility, i.e. what part of the process you want to outsource. If you are sure about your outsourcing agency/company you can offload management of the resources to their own side, so you can just focus on setting the goals you want, and let them describe you the recommended approaches and start implementing.
5. Prepare and agree SLA metrics with the C-level management of your potential vendor. SLAs include the scope of services to be provided, service level, processes (communication, participants, meetings etc), reporting, availability and performance metrics.
Following these five simple principles you will have successful experience with a DevOps service provider.
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