Cloud automation and infrastructure
Infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, environment parity, secrets management, and monitoring for teams that deploy by hand today.
Cloud automation means the deploy pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and environment setup that let a small team ship changes safely without a release ritual. It covers CI/CD, reproducible environments, secrets handling, and the monitoring that tells you a deploy went wrong before a customer does. It is for teams where deploying is currently a manual sequence that only one person is confident running.
The problem
Infrastructure problems stay invisible until they are urgent. The server nobody has patched, the deploy only one person can do, the environment variable that exists in production and nowhere else.
- Deploying means SSHing somewhere and running commands in the right order from memory.
- Staging and production have drifted, so testing in staging proves very little.
- Nobody can recreate the environment, because it was configured by hand two years ago.
- Secrets live in a shared document, or in a file on one laptop.
- The first sign of a failed deploy is a customer email.
What we build
Infrastructure as code
The environment defined in Terraform or the equivalent, so it can be reviewed, versioned, and rebuilt rather than remembered.
A deploy pipeline
Push to a branch, tests run, the change deploys. Same path every time, runnable by anyone on the team, with a rollback that has actually been tested.
Environment parity
Staging that resembles production closely enough that testing there means something, with the differences documented where parity is not worth the cost.
Secrets management
Credentials in a secrets manager with scoped access, out of shared documents and out of the repository.
Monitoring and alerting
Uptime checks, error tracking, and deploy notifications routed to where your team already looks, so problems surface before customers report them.
Cost visibility
Tagging and budget alerts so the monthly bill is explainable and a runaway resource gets noticed in days rather than at the end of the quarter.
What you get at handoff
- Infrastructure definitions and pipeline config in your repository.
- Access and permissions held by your accounts, never by us.
- A runbook covering deploy, rollback, and the common failure modes.
- A documented recovery path: what it takes to rebuild from scratch.
- A walkthrough with the people who will run deploys.
Stack
Clouds
AWS, GCP, Vercel
Infrastructure as code
Terraform, CloudFormation, Cloud-native config
CI/CD
GitHub Actions, Cloud Build, Automated tests on every push
Compute
Lambda, Cloud Run, ECS, Containers, Managed platforms
Operations
Secrets managers, Uptime checks, Error tracking, Budget alerts
Related services
FAQ
We are a small team. Is this overkill?
The small-team version is genuinely small: a pipeline, infrastructure in code, and secrets somewhere sensible. What is overkill is Kubernetes for three services, or a monitoring stack that needs its own owner. We size the setup to the team that has to run it after we leave.
Do we have to move clouds?
No, and we will usually argue against it. Migration is expensive and rarely solves the problem people think it will. We work in the cloud you are already in unless there is a concrete reason to change.
Can you help with our cloud bill?
Yes. Most surprising bills come from a handful of causes: oversized instances left running, storage nobody deleted, data transfer between regions, or a dev environment that never got shut down. Tagging and budget alerts are how you keep it from happening again.
What about Terraform state and who owns it?
State lives in your account, in remote storage with locking, from the first day. Nothing about the setup should require calling us to make a change, and that includes the state file.
How do you handle downtime during the change?
We bring the new path up alongside the existing one and cut over when it is verified, rather than rebuilding in place. Where a maintenance window is genuinely unavoidable, we say so up front and plan it with you.
Ready to scope Cloud Automation?
Send the workflow, tool stack, or reporting problem. We will tell you what should be automated, what should stay manual, and what is worth building first.