Our Experience in DevOps/DevSecOps

In today’s world of information technology, the standards for reliability, speed of software development, and release are constantly increasing. Intense competition and growing customer demands make it necessary to adopt advanced approaches for efficient software delivery. In this context, we implement projects leveraging the latest capabilities in load distribution through virtualization and containerization of applications:

• Virtualization – Transition from the paradigm of “one server – one application” to “one server – many virtual machines”;
• Containerization – Further isolation of application processes at the container level, providing an isolated environment;
• Container Orchestration – Automatic placement, coordination, and management of containers using an orchestrator allows for a flexible, fault-tolerant system capable of handling high loads.

 

Advanced DevOps Practices

The use of advanced DevOps practices helps achieve maximum efficiency and reduces the time-to-market of products. We have extensive experience in utilizing and implementing DevOps, DevSecOps, and SRE practices, which provide:

• Predictability. DevOps significantly reduces the failure rate when releasing new versions.
• Speed. Teams that work according to DevOps principles release high-quality and stable versions more frequently and faster.
• Maintainability. In the event of a failure in a new release or an application shutdown, it is easier to restore its functionality and identify the cause of the incident.
• Quality. Interaction between development and testing teams ensures greater product stability and improves software development quality.
• Competitiveness. Optimizing software delivery halves the time to market, potentially providing a competitive edge.
• Efficiency. Collaboration between different teams increases their efficiency as it accelerates the process of creating code and adapting it to the environment in which it will be executed.
• Reliability. CI/CD practices improve product quality by making changes safe and efficient.
• Security. Thanks to monitoring systems, active checks, and other DevSecOps methods, product stability and fault tolerance increase, reducing the number of bugs that could become vulnerabilities.

 

Our Technology Stack, Cloud Native Technologies, and Infrastructure:

• CI/CD:
  • Git, GitLab
  • GitLab CI, TeamCity, BitBucket Pipelines, Jenkins
• Message Queues: NATS, RabbitMQ, Redis, ActiveMQ Artemis, Apache Kafka
• Continuous Integration and Delivery: GitLab CI, Jenkins, Argo, Travis CI
• Monitoring, Observability, Analytics: Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, Sentry, Zabbix
• Logging and Tracing: FluentD, Elasticsearch, Grafana Loki, OpenSearch, LogStash, Jaeger
• Configuration Management and Deployment: Ansible, Chef, Terraform
• Orchestration: Kubernetes, Nomad, Docker Swarm
• Proxying: Traefik, Nginx, Envoy, HAProxy, MetalLB
• Service Mesh Services: LinkerD, Istio
• Cloud Storage: CEPH, Rook, GlusterFS, Longhorn

 

Monitoring

We focus on using modern methods of debugging information, tracing, and logging when designing systems. In our projects, we implement ubiquitous monitoring:

• Centralized log collection;
• Collection and control of metrics, including auto-response and notifications;
• Distributed tracing within the project;
• Collection, processing, and analysis of security events coming into the system from various sources, detection and recording of information security incidents, and effective decision-making on information protection using SIEM systems;
• Proactive analysis – forecasting system behavior and predicting incidents based on analysis of previous system behavior, using various prediction and forecasting models.

 

Our experience in DevOps and DevSecOps enables us to achieve high speed and reliability in software development and deployment while ensuring a high level of security. We believe that only a comprehensive approach, including automation, containerization, and ensuring security at all stages, can provide our clients with solutions that meet the highest quality and security standards.