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Pipelines, environments and infrastructure your team can actually run.

Cloud and DevOps engineering for companies without a platform team. We set up how your software gets built, tested, deployed, watched and recovered, then hand it over documented, or keep running it for you.

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What this covers

Pipelines, environments and infrastructure your team can actually run, end to end.

Deployment pipelines

One pipeline that builds your software once, runs the tests, and promotes the same artefact through each environment. If a deploy goes wrong, rolling back is a button rather than an evening.

Environments that behave the same

Development, staging and production configured from the same definitions, so a change that works in staging is not a gamble in production. Preview environments per branch where the work benefits from them.

Infrastructure as code

Servers, databases, networking and permissions described in code, reviewed like any other change and kept in your repository. Rebuilding an environment becomes a command rather than an archaeology exercise.

Monitoring, logs and alerts

Uptime, error rates, response times and logs in one place, with alerts that reach a named person rather than an unread inbox. Thresholds set so you hear about the problems that matter and not the rest.

Backups and tested recovery

A backup schedule is only a promise until someone restores from it. We set up backups, then prove them by restoring into a clean environment, and write down how long a full recovery takes.

Access, secrets and patching

Secrets out of the code and into a managed store, access granted by role and reviewed, dependency and operating system updates on a schedule. The questions a security review asks, answered before it asks.

How it runs

Plan. Build. Run.

01

A 30 minute call

You tell us how your software gets from a laptop to a customer today, what breaks, and who gets phoned when it does. We ask about the cloud accounts, the repositories and the deadlines already in the diary.

02

Fixed scope, timeline and price

You get a written plan: what we will build, in what order, by when, and for how much. No hourly meter. If part of your current setup is fine as it stands, that part is not in the plan or the price.

03

Build, alongside what you run

The new pipeline is built next to the current one and proved on real deploys before anything is switched over. Cutover happens in an agreed window with a written rollback, not on a Friday afternoon.

04

Hand over, or we run it

We hand over runbooks, access and a walkthrough with your developers. If you would rather not carry it, our we-run retainer keeps the monitoring, updates and improvements moving, with a monthly report.

Why infoloop

We do not hand over and leave.

  • We run what we buildOur work does not end at handover. The same people who set up your pipeline can keep it patched, monitored and improved on a monthly retainer, so none of it is inherited by a stranger.
  • Sized for the team you actually haveThere is no point in a setup that needs a platform team to keep alive. We choose the dull option your developers can operate on a Tuesday, and leave out the parts you do not need yet.
  • Your accounts, your code, no lock-inCloud accounts, repositories, pipeline definitions and infrastructure code stay yours throughout. Nothing runs on tooling of ours that you could not take over or take elsewhere.
  • Written down, not in one person's headEvery engagement leaves runbooks for deploy, rollback and recovery, plus an architecture diagram that matches reality. If we disappeared tomorrow, your team could still ship.
  • One monthly number to run itIf we keep it running, it is a single monthly fee sized to what we look after, with response targets and a monthly report. You can pause or stop with notice.

What you get

Every engagement includes these, in writing, before work starts.

  • An architecture and environment diagram that matches what actually runs.
  • Pipeline configuration committed to your repository, not held in ours.
  • Infrastructure defined in code, reviewed and version controlled.
  • Monitoring and alerts routed to a named person or channel.
  • A restore proven by doing it, with the recovery time written down.
  • Runbooks for deploy, rollback and the failures most likely to hit you.

Who this is for

Three situations where this is the right call.

Deploys are manual and one person knows how

Releases go out from a laptop, at night, by the one developer who remembers the order of the steps. Nothing is wrong until they are on holiday or hand in their notice. This is the point at which a pipeline stops being a nice-to-have.

The product grew faster than the plumbing

Traffic is up, the cloud bill is up, and an outage now costs real money, but a platform hire is a year away. You need the pipelines, environments and monitoring that hire would build, without the headcount to build them.

A customer's security review is coming

An enterprise buyer or an auditor is asking about access control, backups, patching and recovery times, and the honest answers are not written down anywhere. Most of the work is putting real controls in place and being able to evidence them.

Questions

What buyers ask us first.

Which cloud providers and tools do you work with?
We work with the major clouds, AWS, Google Cloud and Azure, and with smaller managed platforms such as Netlify, Vercel and Render where they suit the size of the team better. For pipelines we use whatever lives next to your code, usually GitHub Actions or GitLab CI. For infrastructure as code, Terraform or the provider's own definitions. We do not push a preferred stack for its own sake. The deciding question is what your developers can operate on a normal day without us in the room.
How much does cloud and DevOps work cost, and how is it priced?
It starts with a 30 minute call, after which you get a fixed scope, timeline and price in writing before anything begins. Build work is quoted as a project rather than billed by the hour, so the number does not move unless you change what you asked for. Running it afterwards is separate: a single monthly retainer sized to what we keep live, with response targets and a monthly report, which you can pause or stop with notice. If part of your current setup is sound, we say so and leave it out of the quote.
What happens after the pipeline goes live?
You choose. We can hand over completely: runbooks for deploy, rollback and recovery, an architecture diagram that matches reality, access held in your own accounts, and a walkthrough with your developers. Or we keep running it on our we-run retainer, which covers monitoring, fixes against agreed response targets, dependency and security updates, improvements each month and a monthly report. Either way it is documented, because a handover that exists only in a conversation is not a handover.
Can you improve what we already have instead of rebuilding it?
Usually yes, and it is normally the cheaper route. We start by reviewing what you run now: how code reaches production, where the environments differ, what is monitored, whether a backup has ever been restored, and who holds access to what. Plenty of setups need three or four specific fixes rather than a rebuild, and we would rather tell you that than sell you a migration. A rebuild only makes sense when the current path cannot be made safe for less effort than replacing it.
Will our own developers be able to run this without us calling you?
That is the test we design against. We choose tooling your team already knows or can pick up quickly, keep the pipeline definition and the infrastructure code in your repository, and avoid anything proprietary to us. Handover includes runbooks written for someone who was not in the room, a walkthrough, and a period where your developers do the deploys while we watch. If your team cannot operate it, we have built the wrong thing and we would rather find that out before we leave.
How do you move us onto a new setup without downtime?
The new path is built alongside the old one and proved on real deploys before anything depends on it. Databases and other stateful pieces are migrated with a rehearsal first, including a restore into a clean environment, so the recovery route is known rather than assumed. Cutover happens in a window you agree, with a written rollback we have already tested, and someone on hand afterwards. Where a short maintenance window is genuinely simpler and cheaper than a zero-downtime cutover, we will say so and let you decide.

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