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Deploy frequency
How often you can ship to production, safely.
Per hour
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Advanced DevOps services
Deploy on Friday afternoon, sleep on Friday night.
If your team treats a release like a fire drill, the problem isn't the release — it's the platform underneath. We build CI/CD, Kubernetes, Terraform, observability and on-call practice that turn deploys into a non-event. From deploy-per-quarter to deploy-per-hour, without the drama.
Docker · Kubernetes
ArgoCD · GitHub Actions
Terraform · Helm
Prometheus · Grafana
deploy@softfix-prod: ~/gitops/app
pipeline live
$ git push origin main
→ pipeline #2481 triggered (softfix/app @ a7f3d2c)
✓ lint 12.4s
✓ unit tests 2m 18s · 428 passed
✓ build image 1m 04s · app:a7f3d2c
✓ security scan 38s · 0 critical
✓ push to registry 22s
→ argo sync staging rolling 3 replicas
✓ staging healthy 6/6 pods ready
→ awaiting approval · prod
approved by @priya.sre (2 min ago)
→ argo sync prod canary 10% → 100%
✓ prod healthy 24/24 pods · 0 errors
deploy complete in 7m 42s · rollback availablePipeline stages
lint
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test
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build
→
scan
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deploy
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verify
Free
DevOps maturity audit
A short report on what's holding deploys back
DORA-aligned
Measured, not guessed
Four metrics, tracked before and after
Zero-downtime
Canary + blue/green
Deploy in business hours, not midnight
Yours, fully
Pipelines stay in your accounts
No lock-in, no hosted-only platforms
DORA metrics — the four that actually matter
We measure DevOps the way Google's research says to.
Four numbers tell you whether your engineering team can move fast without breaking things. We baseline them on week one, then track them month over month.
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Lead time for change
From first commit to running in production.
< 1 day
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Change failure rate
How often a deploy causes an incident.
0–15%
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Mean time to restore
How fast you recover when something does break.
< 1 hour
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Reference pipeline
Eight stages, every commit.
The pipeline below is what we set up by default. Each stage has a purpose, a time budget, and a failure policy — nothing runs longer than it has to.
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Commit & trigger
Push, PR, tag or schedule fires the pipeline. Path filters keep it fast.
≤ 2s
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Lint & static analysis
Style, types, dead code, secrets. Fails fast, blocks the rest.
≤ 30s
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Unit & integration tests
Parallel shards, cached dependencies, coverage gates on changed files.
≤ 5 min
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Build & push image
Multi-stage Docker, SBOM, signed artifacts, tagged by commit SHA.
≤ 3 min
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Security & policy scan
SCA, SAST, image scan, IaC policy. Fails on critical, warns on the rest.
≤ 2 min
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Deploy to staging
Argo CD sync, rollout status, smoke tests, auto-rollback on failure.
≤ 5 min
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Approval & canary
Manual gate for prod, then canary 10% with auto-rollback on SLO burn.
you decide
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Verify & notify
Post-deploy checks, dashboards updated, Slack informed, changelog written.
≤ 3 min
DevOps & platform engineering services
Everything between "git push" and "it's live".
We're not a dashboard vendor. We design, build and hand over the platform your team runs on — then keep it healthy.
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CI/CD pipeline development
GitHub Actions, GitLab CI or Jenkins — with caching, sharding and fast feedback.
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Kubernetes & container orchestration
EKS, GKE, AKS or self-managed. Networking, autoscaling, GPU workloads, upgrades.
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Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
Modules, remote state, drift detection and policy-as-code — no more clicking through consoles.
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Observability (metrics, logs, traces)
Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, Grafana. OpenTelemetry end-to-end, SLOs and burn alerts.
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DevSecOps & supply-chain security
SAST, SCA, image scanning, SBOMs, sigstore signing, admission policies.
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Cloud infrastructure automation
AWS, Azure, GCP accounts set up as code with guardrails, budgets and tagging policies.
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GitOps & progressive delivery
Argo CD, Flux, Argo Rollouts. Canary, blue/green, feature flags, auto-rollback.
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SRE, SLOs & on-call practice
Error budgets, runbooks, alert hygiene, incident review templates that lead to real fixes.
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Cloud cost engineering (FinOps)
Rightsizing, spot, savings plans, autoscaling policies. Cost per team, per service, per customer.
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Internal developer platform
Backstage or custom portal so developers self-serve environments, deploys and secrets.
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Migration to containers & K8s
VM-based apps lifted into images, then modernised in stages — no big-bang rewrite.
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Managed platform & on-call support
Monthly retainer: upgrades, security patches, incident response and continuous improvements.
Before vs after
What changes when the platform stops fighting your team.
Before
The painful version
- Deploys happen on Fridays, at night, with a phone bridge
- Rollbacks mean "revert the commit and hope"
- One person knows how the infra is wired up
- Incidents take hours because no one has the full picture
- Every AWS bill is a surprise
- "We'll write tests after we fix this one"
After
The calm version
- Merges go live automatically, in business hours
- Rollbacks are one command, tested monthly
- Infra is code, reviewed in PRs, reproducible
- Incidents come with dashboards, traces and runbooks
- Cloud spend visible per team, per service
- Tests and scans block the merge, not the release
The stack we work in
Not religious about tools. Opinionated about outcomes.
We'll use whatever fits your team — but here's what we reach for most often, and why.
Docker
Containers
Kubernetes
Orchestration
Terraform
IaC
Argo CD
GitOps
GitHub Actions
CI/CD
GitLab CI
Pipelines
Prometheus
Metrics
Grafana
Dashboards
OpenTelemetry
Traces
Vault
Secrets
AWS
EKS · RDS · S3
Azure
AKS · DevOps
Google Cloud
GKE · Cloud Run
Helm · Kustomize
Packaging
PagerDuty
On-call
Infrastructure as Code
Every resource, written down and reviewed.
If a new engineer can't spin up a copy of production from your repo, your infrastructure isn't really code. Terraform modules, Helm charts, environment overlays — all reviewed in PRs like any other change.
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Modules versioned and shared across teams
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Remote state with locking, drift detection nightly
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Policy-as-code blocks non-compliant plans (OPA / Sentinel)
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Cost estimate shown on every plan, before apply
terraform/modules/eks/main.tf
terraform
module "eks" {
source = "git::ssh://git@github.com/softfix/tf-modules//eks?ref=v4.2.0"
cluster_name = "prod-ap-south-1"
kubernetes_version = "1.29"
node_groups = {
system = {
instance_types = ["m6i.large"]
min_size = 2
max_size = 6
}
gpu = {
instance_types = ["g5.xlarge"]
taints = [{ key = "workload", value = "gpu", effect = "NO_SCHEDULE" }]
}
}
tags = local.standard_tags
}
resource "aws_budgets_budget" "monthly" {
budget_type = "COST"
limit_amount = 5000
limit_unit = "USD"
time_unit = "MONTHLY"
}$ terraform plan · 14 to add, 2 to change, 0 to destroy est. cost +$412/mo
DevOps maturity model
Where is your team today? Where should it be?
Most teams we meet are at level 2 or 3. Getting to 4 is usually a matter of months, not years — if the platform work is done properly.
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1 Level 1
Manual
Deploys by hand, SSH into servers, no tests in CI.
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2 Level 2
Scripted
Scripts, some CI, but envs differ and rollback is painful.
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Most teams
3 Level 3
Automated
CI/CD, IaC, tests run. Deploys are still scary.
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4 Level 4
Measured
DORA metrics tracked, canary deploys, SLOs, on-call runbooks.
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5 Level 5
Optimised
Self-service platform, error budgets, cost-aware engineering.
Engagement models
Three ways to work with us on DevOps.
Some teams want a one-off platform build. Others want an embedded SRE team. We do both, plus the audit that tells you which you actually need.
DevOps & platform audit
A written report on what's slow, risky or over-engineered — with a prioritised plan.
- DORA baseline & gap analysis
- IaC, security & cost review
- Roadmap with effort/impact ranking
Fixed fee · free if you engage us after
Design & build the platform
CI/CD, IaC, Kubernetes, observability, security guardrails — delivered in phases, handed over.
- Reference pipeline in 4–6 weeks
- Runbooks + on-call setup
- Team training and handover
Quoted after audit
Managed platform & SRE
Embedded SRE capacity: upgrades, security patches, incident response, continuous improvement.
- Shared on-call escalation
- Monthly platform review
- Cost & reliability KPIs reported
Monthly, based on team size
FAQ
Advanced DevOps questions, answered straight
What does "advanced DevOps" actually mean?
Beyond a basic CI/CD pipeline: Kubernetes at scale, GitOps, IaC with policy, observability with SLOs, cost engineering and on-call practice. It's the difference between "we have a pipeline" and "we deploy confidently, in business hours, several times a day."
Do we need Kubernetes, or is that overkill?
Often it is. A small team shipping one or two services can go a long way with ECS, Cloud Run, App Runner or even plain VMs. We'll tell you honestly whether K8s is worth the operational tax for your shape of workload.
How long until we see a difference?
A reference pipeline usually runs in week 4–6. Full platform (K8s, IaC, observability) is 3–4 months. But you'll see deploys getting faster and calmer from the first phase — we build in the order that removes the most pain first.
Will you replace our existing tools or work with them?
We work with what you have unless there's a clear reason to change. Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Azure DevOps — we've run all of them at scale. The goal is a better pipeline, not a new tool for the sake of it.
Can you help when an incident is happening right now?
Under a managed retainer, yes — you get an escalation path and our on-call engineers jump in. If you're not on retainer yet, we can still help with a scoped incident-response engagement; email us and we'll respond within an hour during business hours.
What about cost — will the cloud bill go down?
Usually yes, by 20–40% within the first quarter — through rightsizing, spot for suitable workloads, autoscaling and killing zombie resources. The bigger win is often that spend becomes predictable and visible per team, so budgeting stops being a guessing game.
Who owns the pipelines, IaC and dashboards?
You do. Repos, cloud accounts, container registries, secrets managers, dashboards, alerts — all in your accounts, all yours. No hosted control plane that we own and you rent from us.
Free DevOps audit
Tell us how deploys feel today.
A few lines is enough — stack, cloud, team size, and what's currently painful. We'll reply within a working day with a short plan and a fixed-fee audit proposal.
sales@softfix.in
Phone
+91 81890 10044
Address
1st Floor, CP/140, Viraj Khand-4, Gomti Nagar, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh 226010