DevOps

OVERVIEW

A DevOps platform team increases delivery velocity, quality, and maintainability

Organizations need a modern DevOps platform and a platform team to deliver customer value, security, and automation. We partner with your teams and design, implement, and maintain modern application environments. We focus on advancing DevOps best practices, processes, and technologies and provide your team with 24x7x365 support.

DevOps transformation challenges:

Recruiting, training, and retaining a top platform team is expensive and time-consuming
Overcoming resistance to adopting DevOps best practices for processes and technologies
Struggling to quickly address security and compliance to reduce risk
Knowing when and why to prioritize governance or speed

Improved user experiences and business value

An effective platform team offloads development and allows them to focus on users and value.

Higher quality and maintainability with lower technical debt

Tailored services, a strategy, and an expert platform team increases quality, improves maintainability, and decreases technical debt.

Faster technical change and time to deployment

Better working software achieved by removing bottlenecks in deployment processes and leveraging CI/CD techniques.

Reduced operating costs

A right-sized platform team delivers technical expertise while avoiding the costs of a full-time in-house staff.

Proven best practices and our reference architecture

DevOps methodologies based on Lean-Agile behaviors, industry standards, and time-test reference architecture.

Peace of mind from 24x7x365 support

Our 24x7x365 support avoids the need to retain your own specialized support team.

Learn about our DevOps reference architecture build on industry standard tools that will run on any cloud

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“Flexential is an extension of our team and we can’t say that about our other business partners."

Tracey Campbell

CEO, BRIDGE Healthcare Partners

Flexential Professional Services - DevOps

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DevOps platform team

“To scale DevOps, we recommend a product and platform team structure.” - Gartner

We work with customers in a partnership for working software.

Flexential’s professional services for DevOps build on industry best practices with platform teams that off-load stream-aligned development and operations. Our platform teams are responsible for the architecture, modernization, maintenance, and optimization of a standardized and modern application environment.

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Each engagement delivers a lead engineer, assisting engineer, certified scrum master, and more as needed
Offload platform work from stream-aligned teams and enable focus on business value and user experience
Establish Lean-Agile team culture and behaviors modeled by a team that lives DevOps all day, every day
Gain an experienced platform team at a fraction of the cost of internal staffing
Solve development and deployment challenges and bottlenecks with our expertise
Enable continuous integration and deployment, with maximum automation and scalability

Platform modernization

A blueprint for Lean-Agile application platform modernization

We create a transformation strategy blueprint for building modern, containerized, API-driven or micro-services platform architectures. Includes end-to-end discovery that analyzes development through deployment practices. Designed to facilitate monolithic application deconstruction for Lean-Agile transformation.

A proven enterprise reference architecture
A strategy tailored to application-specific requirements
Industry-standard DevOps tools: no vendor lock-in
Best practice methodologies based on Lean-Agile principles
Hybrid IT orientation: services for on-premises, colocation, private, and public cloud

Reference architecture

Modern application environments that fit your business

We architect, deploy, and transform DevOps environments, including tooling and processes. An experienced team partners to add expertise and implement our proven reference architecture based on industry-standard tools and best practice processes. We work in tandem with your team to modernize and optimize the platform to achieve your priorities and goals.

Scalability to accommodate increased demands without compromising performance or reliability
Infrastructure as code enables automation, consistency, and repeatability for delivering quality
Defense-in-depth for security that protects against threats and vulnerabilities
Highly availability to keep the system accessible to users and avoid unplanned downtime
Services instead of servers to support scalability, reliability, security, and cost-effectiveness
Tailored and flexible to meet your needs and priorities

Container orchestration

Implementation of the platform modernization strategy

We deliver a containerized solution for application deconstruction and transformation to modern architectures and environments. Consider using containers for software delivery that is faster, cheaper, and more reliable than using servers.

An environment that enables modern processes such as continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD)
Supports modern application architectures: microservices, highly decoupled environments, message- and event-based, etc.
Highly scalable and resilient environments that reliably respond to failures and increases in demands
Fully automated leveraging infrastructure-as-code to build, deploy, and maintain the environment
Proven operations stack with an experienced team to work through the challenges that come with containerization
Operational monitoring expertise and 24x7x365 support

24x7x365 Support

A partnership for working software

Setting up the environment for 24x7 support and best practices for monitoring and operations happens on day one. Then we continuously maintain and improve your environment based on your priorities and needs.

When issues arise, our experienced DevOps platform teams are always available to assist and troubleshoot your environments. We provide on-call platform and technical support 365 days a year.

Team with DevOps experts at a fraction of the cost of establishing an internal team
Platform team members live DevOps and Lean-Agile processes and behaviors every day and guide critical best practices for smoother operations
Your teams are not the first or only line of defense when things go bump in the middle of the night

FlexAnywhere®: Hybrid IT flexibility without compromise

Flexential's highly connected FlexAnywhere® Platform delivers tailored infrastructure with automation, a pay-as-you-go-and-grow model, and scalability for your business needs.

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