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DevOps Consulting

The end-to-end DevOps consulting services from ICT CORP will help your development and IT management team achieve excellence and empower your IT processes right from design to delivery.

We help you streamline day-to-day activities pertaining to Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and the CI/CD pipeline. Our experts will help you align development and operations to achieve the highest quality of software with increased reliability and frequency of releases.

We also help you engage the security model in your DevOps process to help you achieve the following:

  • Empowering the Development Team to build security into the product
  • Blocking bad components from entering the pipeline
  • Enforce Vulnerability Preventions policies during the CI build phase
  • Maintaining a Trusted Repository that is free of vulnerabilities
  • Predict and Prevent Vulnerabilities in the development process based on incident history from Info Sec
  • Info Sec team transitions to being an integrated associate in the Go Live process
  • Verifying Functional Stability, Security & Compliance prior to GO Live faster and safer
  • Continuously monitor the Production environment for the newly discovered vulnerabilities and have an automated remediation process to respond/react

The intent of DevSecOps is to establish performance over-communication channels iteratively and enforce a joint direction in decision making towards prioritization and remediation of vulnerabilities.

Why ICT CORP?

We have an expert DevOps team consisting of SysOps Administrators, System Administrators, and operations experts that can improve your CI/CD pipeline significantly.

Turning your initiatives into practice with our end-to-end guidance on DevOps Implementation includes:

Step 1: Strategic Planning

We understand the team’s concerns and expectations and collate information from different verticals.

Our core DevOps team will then analyze the level to which your team is equipped to meet DevOps demands, security challenges, application portfolio requisites, IT Resource requirements, and infrastructural needs.

We evaluate the immediate strategic advantages that DevOps implementation may bring to your software delivery process based on the evaluation of your business priorities, current situation, and industry specifics.

We devise practical business plans for improved application reliability, increased frequency of software releases, and the improved user experience.

We help you estimate the organizational efforts needed to implement DevOps taking into account the influence interdepartmental dynamics will have on it.

Step 2: Devising an Implementation Roadmap

  • We help you achieve software portability across cloud infrastructures whether on-premise or off-premise for development, testing, and production environments
  • Our team helps you configure an optimized CI/CD tool like Jenkins to enhance visibility over the CI/CD pipeline, automate and expedite software delivery, and discover and fix application bugs just-in-time to improve software quality
  • We help you accelerate and automate a bug-free software product by guiding you in the usage of tools like Appium and Selenium for functional, integration, performance, load testing, etc.
  • We help you devise an application monitoring solution to assess performance, detect errors faster, and nab post-release bugs with the most competitive tools in the market
  • Our team helps you engage your IT environment in the most promising ways, align development and testing environments with production, arrange code repository with version control, automate development and operational processes
  • We also help you migrate from legacy systems to modern applications seamlessly by addressing DevOps-specific challenges

Step 3: Setting up a Secure Solution

We help your IT system administrators, project managers, program managers, delivery managers, developers, software test engineers, and other DevOps practitioners, understand the importance of the Software Assurance Maturity Model for App Security Compliance.

We help you develop a Process Framework with the following processes.

Testing Sprint

  • Automated Scans and Analysis/Remediation Recommendation by Security Test Architect for Baseline Deviations
  • Regulatory Compliance Measures
  • Meet compliance measures in every stage
  • Security Test Architect runs Audits with Operations and Product Owner

Stage Deployment

  • We help you integrate Security Scans with Third-Party Services or Common Services across Enterprise ecosystems
  • Assistance to Security Test Architect in submitting report to IT Info Sec. Any flags shall be justified and waiver requested based on the impact and implication of the flag towards target audience

Pre-Production Deployment

  • We assist the IT Info Sec in running an independent scan to assess the waivers and Enterprise Security Compliance

Production Deployment

  • Assistance with Warranty Window – Monitoring is Active for suspected traffic and IP Blacklisting to measure the effectiveness of the deployment
  • We advise the Security Test Architect ingest the Prod Operation reports on the incidents towards the retrospective with the teams

Step 4: Supporting DevOps at the production stage

ICT CORP help with maintaining the consistent operability of your software infrastructure, implementing changes in it, ensuring a proper load distribution within the customer’s IT environment, and enhancing the security schedule of your software development process.

DevOps Technical Consulting Services

We back you up with all the technical know-how to enhance your DevOps CI/CD pipeline.

We help you install and configure the appropriate set of DevOps specific tools including:

  • Containerization tools
  • IT infrastructure automation tools
  • CI/CD tools
  • Test automation tools
  • Monitoring tools
  • Once your DevOps toolset is properly configured, ICT CORP’s DevOps consultants can help with knowledge transfer to maintain your agile IT infrastructure

When to turn to DevOps Consulting?

If you have concerns about the following, DevOps is the answer:

  • Collaboration glitches between the teams (development, testing, system administration, and security) resulting in slow software delivery and low software quality
  • A slowed down manual process of providing new IT infrastructure
  • Disparities in the configurations of development, testing and production environments\
  • Uncertain infrastructure modifications, software updates and bug fixing
  • Post-release bugs affecting user or customer experience or business operations
  • A slow and inefficient testing process due to insufficient test automation

Challenges Addressed by ICT CORP

Lack of enthusiasm of Employees in DevOps Adoption

We offer interesting and practical training to your development, QA and testing, operations specialists to fully adopt the beneficial aspects of DevOps into your CI/CD pipeline.

Uncertainty about Picking the Right Technology Stack and Inhibitions about Modernization?

Based on your CI/CD goals and DevOps plan, our SMEs will help you choose an appropriate set of containerization, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, and other tools aligned with your team’s needs, and configure them efficiently.

We also help with application re-hosting, reengineering, recoding, to overcome difficulties with adapting your legacy applications.

Want to accelerate your development and operations software delivery cycle within a minimum release time at optimum costs? Contact our DevOps Consultants today!