Infrastructure that runs itself.
Infrastructure as code, container orchestration, and configuration management — so your infrastructure is reproducible, scalable, and not dependent on any one person's muscle memory.
IaC
All infra in git
Reviewed like code
0
Manual deployments
Every change is automated
Drift
Detection built-in
Auto-reconciled always
6+
Tools we deploy
Terraform, K8s, Vault…
What We Automate
Every layer of your infrastructure stack
From cloud resource provisioning to secrets rotation — all defined as code.
Git-managed infra
Infrastructure as Code
Terraform or Pulumi for every cloud resource — VPCs, databases, compute, DNS, certificates. Infrastructure defined in git, reviewed like code, deployed reproducibly.
Idempotent state
Configuration Management
Ansible playbooks for server configuration, package installation, and system state management. Run it 10 times — same result every time.
EKS / GKE / AKS
Container Orchestration
Kubernetes or AWS ECS for containerized workloads. Deployments, services, ingress, HPA, and resource limits defined as manifests — not clicked through a console.
Load-reactive infra
Auto-Scaling
HPA, cluster autoscaler, and scheduled scaling rules. Infrastructure expands under load and shrinks during quiet periods — no manual intervention required.
Zero plaintext secrets
Secrets Management
AWS Secrets Manager, HashiCorp Vault, or Kubernetes Secrets with external-secrets-operator. No credentials in environment variables or source code ever.
Code-deployed dashboards
Observability Automation
Prometheus, Grafana, and alerting rules deployed as code. Dashboards provisioned automatically. On-call runbooks linked to alert annotations.
Tool Stack
Best-in-class tools, not personal favorites
Tool chosen per workload. We're opinionated about outcomes, not tool loyalty.
IaC
- Terraform
- Pulumi
- AWS CDK
- Helm
Containers
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- EKS / GKE / AKS
- AWS ECS
Config Mgmt
- Ansible
- Chef Infra
- Puppet
- SaltStack
Observability
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Datadog
- PagerDuty
Manual infra problems that don't scale
The most common infrastructure failures are predictable — and preventable. Here's how we handle each one.
Manual Infra Is One Resignation Away
When infrastructure is click-ops or lives in one engineer's head, a single team departure turns a routine deploy into a crisis. Nobody can reproduce the environment, nobody knows why things are configured the way they are, and disaster recovery becomes a multi-week archaeology project.
Our approach
Every resource defined in Terraform/Pulumi, committed to git, peer-reviewed like code. Any engineer on the team can provision an identical environment from scratch in under an hour.
Audit → IaC → Pipelines → Autonomy
Each phase has a defined output. We don't move on until the previous phase is stable and documented.
Current State Audit
Map what's manually configured, what's already automated, and where the biggest reliability risks are. Output: risk-ranked infrastructure inventory.
IaC Foundation
Convert existing infrastructure to Terraform/Pulumi. Remote state, state locking, and module structure established. Existing resources imported — no destroy/recreate.
Pipeline & Automation
CI/CD for infrastructure changes — plan on PR, apply on merge. No manual terraform apply on production. Auto-scaling and secrets management configured.
Observability & Handoff
Monitoring, alerting, and on-call runbooks deployed as code. Team trained on IaC workflow and emergency procedures. Documentation in the same repo as the code.
Questions we get all the time
If yours is not here, reach out. We respond within 24 hours with a real answer from an engineer — not a sales pitch.
IaC means your infrastructure is defined in code files (Terraform HCL, Pulumi TypeScript) rather than configured manually through a console. Benefits: every change is reviewed in git, environments are reproducible, disaster recovery takes minutes not days, and drift between environments is eliminated.
No. We import existing resources into Terraform state — your running infrastructure becomes code-managed without destroying and recreating it. We prioritize the highest-risk resources first (databases, networking) and work through the rest systematically.
ECS if you're on AWS and want less operational complexity — it's well-managed and sufficient for most workloads. Kubernetes if you need multi-cloud portability, advanced scheduling, or a large ecosystem of operators (service mesh, secret management). We'll recommend based on your team size and operational capacity.
We implement AWS Secrets Manager or HashiCorp Vault with the external-secrets-operator for Kubernetes, or environment-specific secret injection via CI/CD. Credentials are never in code, never in environment variables of long-lived processes, and rotated automatically on schedule.
Both, depending on your team. Terraform (HCL) is our default — the largest ecosystem, the most provider modules, and the easiest for ops teams to read. Pulumi is the better fit when your engineers prefer defining infrastructure in TypeScript, Python, or Go and want real loops and abstractions. We set up remote state, state locking, and a modular structure either way.
A typical engagement runs 6-8 weeks: a current-state audit in week 1, IaC foundation and resource import in weeks 2-4, CI/CD pipelines and secrets management in weeks 4-6, then observability and team handoff in weeks 6-8. Larger or multi-account environments take longer, but each phase ships a working deliverable so you see value before the next phase starts.
We quote a fixed fee after scoping, based on the number of cloud accounts, services, and the current level of manual configuration. A focused IaC and CI/CD engagement for a single-account setup typically lands in the mid five figures over 6-8 weeks. The payback is concrete: deploys go from a one-person bottleneck to any-engineer-can-ship, and config drift incidents stop happening.
“They built our SaaS from scratch — auth, billing, dashboards, the works. Running 14 months with 99.97% uptime. When we needed features, the code was so clean changes were fast.”
James Morton
CEO · Docket Analytics · Vancouver, Canada
Stop managing infrastructure
with your hands.
Tell us what you're running manually today. We'll make it reproducible, scalable, and manageable by any engineer on your team.
