- Cloud/DevOps
- Consulting
Legacy monolith to cloud-native on Azure
A mid-size professional services firm
Containerising a decade-old .NET monolith, introducing CI/CD and moving it to Azure with a zero-downtime cutover.
DevOps & containerisation
Turn every release into a routine, low-risk event.
We containerise applications, automate build, test and deploy pipelines, put infrastructure into code and add the monitoring your team needs, so shipping software stops being a weekend event.
- Pipelines your team owns
- Infrastructure as code from day one
- Observability that shortens incidents
What we build
Specific deliverables, not vague promises.
Typical pieces of work in this area. Most engagements combine several of them.
- 01
Docker images done properly
Small multi-stage images that run as non-root users, are scanned for vulnerabilities and rebuild reproducibly.
- 02
CI/CD pipelines
GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps pipelines with linting, tests, preview environments and gated production releases.
- 03
Infrastructure as code
Terraform or Bicep modules with remote state, plan output reviewed on every pull request and scheduled drift detection.
- 04
Kubernetes foundations
Deployments, ingress, autoscaling and Helm charts on EKS or AKS, kept no more complicated than your team can run.
- 05
Observability
Structured logs, metrics and traces with OpenTelemetry, dashboards in Grafana or Azure Monitor and alerts that link to a runbook.
- 06
Safer release strategies
Blue/green and canary deployments, feature flags and automatic rollback when health checks fail.
- 07
Supply-chain and secrets hygiene
Dependency scanning, signed images, short-lived cloud credentials through OIDC and secrets kept in a vault, never in the repository.
How we work
A clear path from first conversation to production.
Week 1
Baseline
Map how code gets from a laptop to production today, and where it hurts most.
Weeks 1–3
Quick wins
Automate the most painful manual step first, usually builds and tests.
Iterative
Pipeline & IaC
Build the full pipeline and move infrastructure into code, one environment at a time.
Go-live
Observe
Add logs, metrics, traces and alerts, then run a game day to test them.
Handover
Coach
Pair with your engineers so the team runs and improves the setup without us.
Technologies we use
Proven, well-supported tools, chosen for your context rather than for novelty.
- Docker
- GitHub Actions
- Azure DevOps
- Terraform
- Kubernetes
- Helm
- OpenTelemetry
- Grafana
- Prometheus
Typical outcomes
- Deployments that take minutes and can happen any day of the week
- Environments that match from laptop to production
- Faster detection and recovery when something does go wrong
- A team that trusts its pipeline instead of working around it
Outcomes depend on your starting point; we agree success measures with you up front.
Representative projects
The kind of work we deliver.
- Full-Stack
- Cloud/DevOps
Multi-tenant SaaS analytics platform
A B2B software start-up in the logistics sector
A secure, multi-tenant analytics product built on Next.js and Node.js and deployed on AWS, taking the client from prototype to paying customers.
Representative engagements. Client names and some details are withheld or illustrative.
FAQ
Questions, answered.
Can’t find what you’re looking for? Ask us directly. We’re happy to talk it through.
Often not. Many teams are better served by managed platforms such as ECS Fargate, Azure Container Apps or App Service. We recommend Kubernetes when you run many services, have specific scheduling needs or have a team ready to operate it.
Both are capable. GitHub Actions suits teams already on GitHub; Azure DevOps suits organisations with existing boards, test plans and Microsoft governance. We can also migrate pipelines from Jenkins or other tools.
That is the way we prefer to work. We pair with your engineers, review changes together and leave documentation, so the knowledge stays in your team.
Secrets live in AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault or a similar vault, are injected at runtime and never committed to a repository. Pipelines sign in to the cloud with OIDC federation instead of long-lived keys wherever the platform supports it.
A short, fixed-scope engagement works well: we baseline your current process, build the pipeline for one representative service, document it and show your team how to apply it to the rest.
Keep exploring
Related services and pages
- Service
Cloud Solutions on AWS
Secure, cost-aware AWS architecture, from serverless APIs to container platforms, plus migrations that don’t keep you up at night.
- Service
Cloud Solutions on Microsoft Azure
Azure platforms that fit the Microsoft ecosystem you already run: App Service, Functions, AKS, Entra ID and hybrid setups.
- Service
Full-Stack Web Development
Fast, accessible web apps and APIs built with React, Next.js, Node.js and TypeScript, engineered to scale with your product.
- Industry
Manufacturing
Modern ERP, shop-floor apps and reporting for one connected view of operations.
Start a conversation
Let’s make releases boring.
Tell us how you ship today and what goes wrong. We’ll suggest where to start and what a realistic improvement plan looks like.
- A call with a DevOps engineer
- A quick read on your biggest delivery bottleneck
- A setup your team can keep running after we leave
Prefer email? contact@blackpantherdigital.net