RWS DevOps Services

The practice of continuous integration (CI) is at the heart of DevOps, along with continuous delivery or deployment (CD) to create a CI/CD pipeline. Continuous integration requires the use of a code repository with version control, to which developers commit code frequently, at least daily. Best practices for CI include:

• Automated build and test of each new commit, in a test environment that clones the production environment
• Immediate availability of the results so that bugs can quickly be identified and fixed
• Thorough documentation and feedback processes to support continual improvement of CI

RWS DevOps Services give you peace of mind that your continuous integration setup will follow best practices. Our DevOps experts are proficient in:

• Version control mechanisms
• Build process definitions
• Setting up build tools and scripts
• Rolling out CI tools
• Automated quality assurance (integration of testing tools)

We also offer DevOps consulting services for those who need advice and recommendations to develop their CI/CD strategy, or help assessing their existing setup for improvement.

Together with continuous integration, continuous delivery is at the heart of DevOps; the two together create a CI/CD pipeline. If the release of software to the production environment is not completely automated it's usually referred to as continuous delivery, whereas fully automated delivery is usually called continuous deployment (both referred to as 'CD').

Our deployment automation services will give you a pipeline that seamlessly integrates deployment with your development, build and test environments and follows continuous deployment best practices such as:

• A security-first approach (DevSecOps)
• Collection of key deployment and operational metrics to support continual improvement of the CD process
• Reliable rollback procedures

RWS DevOps Services give you peace of mind that your continuous deployment setup will deliver the efficiencies you expect. Our DevOps experts are proficient in:

• Setting up automated deployment environments
• Rolling out CD tools
• Creating repeatable deployments scripts
• Setting up appropriate metrics collection mechanisms and reporting
• Defining a rollback strategy

We also offer DevOps consulting services for those who need advice and recommendations to develop their CI/CD strategy, or help assessing their existing setup for improvement.

While a good CI/CD pipeline is critical to achieving the benefits of DevOps, much of the benefit will be wasted if you assume that the job is done once an application is deployed. To build on the operational efficiencies delivered by CI/CD and assure application performance, you want your production environment to be continuously monitored so that any issues with availability, security or performance are immediately detected and addressed. Increasingly, businesses need this to be done 24x7.

RWS DevOps Services can take this on for you, giving you a cost-effective way to extend the speed, quality and efficiency benefits of CI/CD to the ongoing monitoring of IT operations. Typically we'll vastly reduce the number of IT incidents and fix any issues much more rapidly than businesses can manage themselves, as well as lower their total cost of ownership and improve the user experience that they deliver.

We can monitor any IT environment – on-premises, cloud or hybrid – and help with any or all of the following:

• Infrastructure and application-level monitoring (24x7x365 if required), with root cause analysis of any issues found
• Cost optimization through regular reviews of infrastructure use and recommendations for improvement
• Incident management, including effective documentation of approved responses to minimize the need for future escalation
• Proactive monitoring of logs to prevent issues before they occur
• Security management: periodic security audits adhering to relevant security standards
• Automated configuration deployment and management
• Backup and recovery services