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CybexsoftConsultancy Services
Services · DevOps & automation

Releases that stop being events

We build the pipelines, environments and monitoring that let your team ship on any weekday afternoon — automated tests, one-command deploys and a rollback path that has been used at least once before you need it.

Runs in your cloud accountsEverything as codeDocumented handover
Pipeline · main → productionDeployed
Build
commit a3f9c1 · image tagged
42s
Test
128 passed, 0 failed
1m 58s
Scan
dependency & image scan · 0 critical
34s
Approve
reviewed by J. Mehta
Deploy
rolling deploy · production
51s
Build, test, scan, deploy — with an approval gate where you want one
18 servers under management · 0 rollbacks last quarter
61
Releases deployed last quarter
99.98%
Infrastructure availability
1h 42m
Median first response
100%
Backups verified & restorable
Why teams call us

Deploys nobody wants to be on the hook for

Most of the systems we inherit were never designed to be released often. The symptoms are consistent.

Friday-night deploys

Manual steps in a document, one person who knows the order, and no way back if step six fails.

Environments that differ

Staging was configured by hand two years ago, so passing there proves very little.

Customers report outages

No alerting on the things that actually break, and no dashboard to check first.

Capabilities

What we set up and hand over

Every piece lives in your repository and your cloud account, with a runbook your team can follow without us.

CI/CD pipelines

Build, test, security scan and deploy on every merge, with environment promotion and manual gates where you want them.

Containerisation

Docker images for each service, local development that matches production, and Kubernetes or ECS orchestration when the load justifies it.

Infrastructure as code

Terraform or CloudFormation for every environment, so staging can be rebuilt from scratch and drift is visible in a pull request.

Monitoring & alerting

Metrics, logs and uptime checks with alerts routed to a human, tuned so the pager only fires for things worth waking up for.

Secrets & access control

Credentials out of the repository and into a managed vault, with least-privilege roles and an audit trail of who deployed what.

Backups & disaster recovery

Automated backups with a restore actually tested on a schedule, and a written recovery procedure with target times.

The pipeline

From merge to production in one path

STAGE 01

Commit & build

Lint, unit tests and a reproducible container image tagged with the commit.

STAGE 02

Verify

Integration tests against a throwaway environment, plus dependency and image scanning.

STAGE 03

Deploy to staging

Automatic, with migrations applied the same way they will run in production.

STAGE 04

Approve

One click from a named approver, recorded against the release.

STAGE 05

Release

Rolling or blue-green deploy with health checks, and an automatic halt on failure.

STAGE 06

Observe & roll back

Post-deploy metrics watched against a baseline, with a one-command return to the last good version.

Commit & build
Verify
Deploy to staging
Approve
Release
Observe & roll back
main → build → verify → staging → approve → production, on every merge
Toolchain

Tools we run every day

We work with what you already pay for wherever possible. If a tool has to change, we say why and what it costs.

Cloud & hosting
AWSDigitalOceanAzureCloudflareBare metal
Pipelines & provisioning
GitHub ActionsGitLab CIJenkinsTerraformAnsible
Runtime & orchestration
DockerKubernetesECSNginxRedis
Observability
PrometheusGrafanaLokiUptime checksSentry
Start here

A two-week DevOps assessment

Fixed price, fixed scope. We review your repositories, environments and release process, then hand you a prioritised plan with effort estimates — yours to act on with us or without us.

Current-state map of build, deploy and infrastructureRisk register: single points of failure, missing backups, exposed secretsNinety-day roadmap with cost and effort per itemOne pipeline built and running as a working example
Book an assessment
Risk register
Ranked by severity · from the assessment report
CriticalNo tested database restore3 days
CriticalSecrets committed to repo history2 days
HighStaging drifted from production1 week
HighNo alerting on error-rate spikes4 days
MediumManual deploy runbook, single owner1.5 weeks
Sample findings — your report reflects your own systems.
Engagement models

Three ways to bring us in

All three come with named engineers, written scope and monthly reporting.

Assessment

Two weeks, fixed price. A plan you own, whether or not we build it.

Fixed two-week windowWritten report & roadmapOne example pipeline
Most chosen

Implementation project

Four to ten weeks to build the pipelines, environments and monitoring, then hand them over documented.

Milestone-based invoicingWeekly working demosRunbooks & team training

Ongoing operations

A monthly retainer covering monitoring, patching, incident response and pipeline changes.

Under 2-hour response24×7 monitoring & backupsMonthly service report
Selected work

From monthly manual releases to daily deploys

Case studySaaS platform · 7 weeks
Problem

Releases happened once a month, by hand, late at night, and two of the last five needed a database restore.

What we did

Containerised the application, rebuilt staging from Terraform, added a test-and-deploy pipeline with an approval gate, and put metrics and alerting in front of the team.

Result

Deploys now happen on demand during working hours, and a bad release is reverted in minutes instead of hours.

Placeholder case study — send us the real project details and metrics to swap in.
7 weeks
To first automated production deploy
4 min
Median rollback time
11
Manual release steps removed
FAQ

Questions we're asked before starting

Anything else, write to us and an engineer will answer.

admin@cybexsoft.com
Do we need to move to Kubernetes?+

Usually not. Most teams get everything they wanted from containers on a managed service or a pair of well-configured servers. We recommend Kubernetes only when the scale or the team size actually calls for it.

Can you work inside our cloud accounts?+

That is how we prefer to work. Repositories, cloud accounts and credentials stay in your name; we get scoped access and you can revoke it at any point.

Will this need downtime?+

Pipeline and monitoring work needs none. Migrations that move hosting or change the database usually need one short scheduled window, agreed in writing beforehand with a rehearsed rollback.

What does it cost to run?+

We estimate monthly cloud spend before building anything, and right-sizing during the assessment often pays for a good part of the project.

Can our team maintain it after handover?+

Yes — that is the point. Everything is code in your repository, with runbooks and a walkthrough session per area. A retainer is available if you would rather we stayed on the pager.

Do you take over infrastructure someone else built?+

Often. We start with the assessment, then give an honest recommendation — keep, improve in place, or rebuild — with the cost of each.

Tell us how you deploy today

Forty-five minutes with an engineer, and you will leave the call with two or three things worth fixing first — whether or not you hire us.