DevOps Consulting – Transform Your IT Operations with DevOps
DevOps is a methodology designed to align development and operation teams to deliver high-quality software faster. In DevOps since 2013, ScienceSoft offers end-to-end DevOps consulting services to help you achieve the increased frequency and reliability of software releases.
IS IT TIME TO TURN TO DEVOPS CONSULTING?
DevOps consulting may be the answer if you feel concerned about:
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Differences in the configurations of development, testing and production environments. |
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The lack of collaboration between the teams (development, testing, system administration, and security) resulting in a slow software delivery and low software quality. |
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The slow manual process of providing new IT infrastructure. |
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Post-release errors affecting user or customer experience or business operations. |
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Time-consuming infrastructure modifications, software updates and bug fixing. |
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A slow and inefficient testing process due to insufficient test automation. |
Our recognitions
TOOLS OUR DEVOPS CONSULTANTS ARE WELL-VERSED IN
Containerization tools
Infrastructure automation tools
CI/CD tools
Test automation tools
Monitoring tools
Coding & scripting
Databases / data storages
SQL
NoSQL
Clouds
Click on the technology to learn about our capabilities in it.
End-to-end DevOps implementation consulting
We can help you leverage connected and automate development, testing and deployment of your applications at any stage of your apps’ life cycle by:
- Applying the Infrastructure as a Code (IaaC) approach.
- Applying app module containerization.
- Setting up continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
- Introducing test automation.
- Introducing automated application monitoring.
DevOps launch consulting
- Carrying out strategic planning.
- Developing a detailed DevOps implementation roadmap.
- Upskilling your team in DevOps tools and ways of working.
- Assisting in the DevOps solution setup.
DevOps project recovery consulting
Our experienced recovery team helps:
- Find and fix collaboration problems between development, testing and operations teams.
- Identify and fill in knowledge gaps in DevOps tools and methodologies.
- Cope with technical problems (e.g., CI/CD configuration errors).
- Optimize the automated testing coverage, and more.
DevOps tech consulting
- Choosing, installing and configuring the right tools for an efficient DevOps environment.
- Upskilling your team in the DevOps techs used.
STEP 1
Plan
What we do:
- Analyze the current software development cycle, available IT resources, and your IT infrastructure.
- Map business expectations, identify IT capabilities and constraints.
- Devise DevOps implementation strategy.
STEP 2
Create roadmap
What we do:
- Design the containerization approach (based on Kubernetes or Apache Mesos).
- Design the CI/CD approach, define and configure CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GoCD).
- Advise on the test automation approach (usually based on Selenium and Appium) and integration of continuous testing into the CI/CD pipeline.
- Design integration of IaaC and configuration management tools (Ansible, Chef, and Puppet) with CI/CD tools (GoCD, Jenkins, Bamboo).
- Design an automated monitoring solution (based on Zabbix or Nagios).
- Locate DevOps-specific challenges (e.g., the lack of necessary competencies, legacy applications difficult to containerize) and elaborate on their solutions.
STEP 3
Execute
What we do:
- Upskill your IT system administrators, project managers, program managers, delivery managers, developers, software test engineers, and other DevOps practitioners in the required DevOps tools and processes.
- Introduce the IaaC approach.
- Assist in the deployment and configuration of CI/CD and test automation tools.
STEP 4
Support
What we do:
- Mentor your DevOps practitioners to achieve the set DevOps implementation objectives.
- Maintain the operability of the software infrastructure, implement changes in it, ensure a proper load distribution within your IT environment.
DevOps Implementation for a Retail and Hospitality Company
ScienceSoft significantly accelerated the delivery of new software features, fixes, and updates by aligning the Customer’s dev, test and stage environments with the production environment, automating performance testing, load balancing, IT infrastructure monitoring, and log management.
CI Pipeline Implementation for Viber Application
ScienceSoft’s team established the Continuous Integration (CI) pipeline in Jenkins to streamline the development of a 900-million-user communication app.
CI/CD Implementation for a Smart Retail Digital Signage Solution
ScienceSoft’s team set up CI/CD pipelines compatible with multiple cloud platforms to ensure a seamless introduction of frequent code changes (up to 100 commits a day). Every pipeline step launched in a separate AWS-hosted Docker image to maximize fault isolation.
Image Processing Software Continuous Integration
ScienceSoft’s team built a continuous integration pipeline to automatically run unit tests (570 tests to check units’ logic) and acceptance tests (470 user scenarios operating at a higher level than unit tests). Running tests in parallel helped reduce the test time from 4-5 to 1.5-2 hours.
ADDITIONAL SERVICES TO ENHANCE DEVOPS IMPLEMENTATION
To improve the overall software quality and introduce test automation on a high scale.
Challenge 1
Resistance of employees to the DevOps implementation
Challenge 2
Uncertainty about technologies to implement the DevOps initiative
Challenge 3
Difficulty in adapting legacy applications to DevOps