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Cloud and DevOps

Cloud platforms should make change safer and costs clearer. We help you get those benefits without the sprawl.

Overview

Repeatable, observable, and worth what it costs.

A cloud environment built by hand is hard to reproduce, hard to secure and hard to understand after a year. Bills grow, permissions accumulate and everyone becomes reluctant to change anything.

We design architectures around your real availability and recovery requirements, and define them as code, so that every change is reviewed, repeatable and auditable. Monitoring, access and cost visibility are built in as a matter of course.

We remain vendor neutral across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. Sometimes the honest answer is a simpler platform, a smaller footprint, or leaving a particular workload where it already is.

What we do

Architecture to everyday operations.

  • Cloud architecture design

    High-availability, multi-zone and, where justified, multi-region designs matched to agreed recovery targets.

  • Cloud migration

    Rehosting, replatforming or refactoring, chosen workload by workload, with minimal downtime and rehearsed cut-overs.

  • Infrastructure as code

    Terraform and Ansible modules with review and automated testing, so that environments can be rebuilt and audited.

  • Kubernetes and containers

    Well-operated clusters, using Helm, Argo CD and GitOps workflows, and honest advice on when Kubernetes is unnecessary.

  • CI/CD and DevOps enablement

    Pipeline templates, deployment strategies and coaching, so that releases become routine for your team.

  • Observability

    Metrics, logs and traces using tools such as Prometheus and Grafana, with alerts tied to what users experience.

  • FinOps and cost optimisation

    Tagging, right-sizing, autoscaling, commitment planning and cost dashboards, so that spend aligns with value.

  • Backup and disaster recovery

    Immutable backups, recovery runbooks and restore drills that prove your recovery targets can really be met.

How it runs

How a cloud engagement runs.

  • 01

    Review

    We assess your architecture, security, reliability and spending against your actual requirements.

  • 02

    Foundation

    We set up accounts, identity, networking, logging and guardrails as code.

  • 03

    Migrate or build

    We move or build workloads in small groups, learning from each wave.

  • 04

    Optimise

    We tune performance and cost using real usage data once systems are running.

  • 05

    Enable

    We coach your team and leave templates, documentation and runbooks behind.

What you receive

A platform your team can operate.

  • Architecture review and pragmatic roadmap
  • Reusable infrastructure-as-code modules in your repository
  • Deployment pipelines and environment promotion rules
  • Dashboards for service health and for cost
  • Backup, disaster recovery and restore test records
  • Operational runbooks and training sessions

A good fit when

When this service tends to help.

  • You are planning a migration and want an independent plan
  • Your cloud bill keeps growing and nobody can explain why
  • Releases are stressful, manual and infrequent
  • Your environments were built by hand and are hard to reproduce
  • You need to demonstrate recoverability to customers or auditors

Questions

Things people usually ask

Which cloud should we choose?
It depends on your existing skills, licensing, data residency needs and the services you value. We will compare them for your case. Often the differences matter less than how well the platform is run.
Do we need Kubernetes?
Not always. For a small number of services, a managed container or platform service may be cheaper and easier to run. We recommend it when its benefits exceed its operational cost.
Can you reduce our bill?
Often, particularly where nobody has reviewed the spending recently, but we would not promise a number before seeing your data. Our article on cloud costs explains where we would begin.
Do you offer ongoing operations?
We can provide ongoing operational support by agreement, with scope and response expectations written down. We also like to leave your own team able to run things.

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Start a conversation

Tell us what you are trying to do.

A few plain sentences are enough. Send us the problem, the deadline if there is one, and what has already been tried. We will tell you honestly whether we are the right people to help.

Get in touch support@vnet.nz