SONATIVE DevOps: DevOps consulting and expertise

SONATIVE DevOps: DevOps consulting and expertise

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The SONATIVE™️ DevOps offer

The SONATIVE™️ DevOps offer

Our DevOps consulting brings you advice and hands-on support from our experts on DevOps and DevSecOps practices, CI/CD, Container architectures and Kubernetes, to speed up how you ship applications while improving the stability, quality and security of your systems.

Boost your development teams' capabilities with SoKube's DevOps method

DevOps and DevSecOps practices
  • Optimizing the software development lifecycle (SDLC)
  • Assessing Cloud Native maturity (architecture, development, testing, deployment, ….)
  • Raising team awareness of Automation and Measurement cultures in a highly collaborative context
  • Rolling out a Lean Approach Sharing and learning from technical choices and incidents
CI Pipeline
  • Choosing a Git branching model suited to Continuous Delivery and your context (software vendor, in-house solutions, …)
  • Standardizing application builds and packaging
  • Producing reproducible, immutable builds and releases
  • Improving visibility and predictability Reducing risk (defects, configuration, deployment)
  • Improving traceability and producing Release Notes
  • Automating Release Management (release, hotfix, …) through pipelines
  • Tools – Git, Gitlab, Github, Jira, Artifactory, Cloud registries
CD Pipeline and GitOps
  • Delivering and deploying application artifacts (Docker image, Helm package, …)
  • Push / pull approach, security and reconciliation considerations
  • Zero-downtime or progressive deployment
  • Managing infrastructure and software configuration
  • Tools – ArgoCD, CodeFresh, Helm, Kustomize, Weaveworks
Infrastructure as Code
  • Modeling infrastructure with a “Desired State” approach – the notion of an “infra ticket” disappears
  • Notification and reconciliation against the current state of the environment, with automatic remediation where possible
  • Spinning up environments on demand
  • Tools – Terraform, Ansible
Secret Management
  • Defining and rolling out security governance and strategy (MFA, key or certificate rotation, …)
  • Defining and setting up an infrastructure for encrypting and signing data / flows (PKI)
  • Global, secure management of all authentication credentials across an IT ecosystem, including passwords, API keys, tokens, encryption keys and privileged accounts
  • Reviewing and removing all hard-coded secrets
  • Tools – HashiCorp Vault, Cloud KMS solutions, Cloud Secret Managers
Software Supply Chain / Security
  • Improving application quality with “built-in quality”
  • Improving application and container security with “built-in security” / “shift-left”
  • Static or dynamic analysis of application code (Static / Dynamic Application Security Testing)
  • Analyzing open-source dependencies (Software Composition Analysis) and detecting vulnerabilities
  • Tools – Anchore, AquaSec, Checkmarx, Codacy, Gitlab, Github, OWASP, Snyk, SonarQube, Trivy, …
Containers
  • Standardizing a complete, consistent piece of infrastructure (container) that carries the application through its whole lifecycle (Build once, Run everywhere)
  • Significantly reducing CPU, memory and disk footprint compared to VMs (no Guest OS needed)
  • Building minimal, secure base images
  • Rolling out Docker, Containerd, Podman, gVisor, … depending on context
  • Continuously tracking image quality and security, integrated into pipelines or directly at runtime
Kubernetes – container orchestration platform
  • Orchestrating containers with Kubernetes
  • Migrating to the Kubernetes platform
  • Support deploying and operating applications on Kubernetes, on-premise or in the Cloud
Observability
  • Building a shared measurement culture around the 3 pillars of Monitoring, Logging and Tracing
  • Extracting actionable signals from a complex, distributed, hybrid, multi-layered IT infrastructure
  • Applying the SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) approach popularized by Google, based on service levels or the “4 golden signals” (latency, traffic, errors and saturation)
  • Making a software solution – up to a full Information System – easier to understand
  • Cutting out the vast majority of noise in the signals reported by your software stacks
Day 2 Operations
  • Continuous analysis and improvement of a product, system or platform across its whole lifecycle – maintenance, observability, optimization – rather than a short-term “project” view
  • End-to-end collaboration (Dev and Ops) on patching, particularly for Containers and the Software Supply Chain
  • Setting up and improving update, backup/restore, high-availability, failover and Disaster Recovery procedures
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Benefit from the many advantages our DevOps experts bring to your organization

SONATIVE™️ DevOps by SoKube

At SoKube, our experts have strong knowledge and hands-on experience rolling out DevOps and DevSecOps approaches and methods within organizations and their software development teams.

By adopting a DevOps, DevSecOps approach, your organization will gain many benefits, such as improved flexibility, better adaptation to change and stronger communication within teams, leading to faster application deployment and better risk management.

Quality

By letting development and operations teams work together seamlessly and continuously, identify and fix quality issues in your applications faster.

Faster deployments

Ship new versions of your applications faster and more reliably, thanks to greater automation and better collaboration between your teams.

User satisfaction

By releasing application updates more often and with fewer errors, improve the satisfaction of your end users.

Lower costs

Achieve financial gains by automating tedious, repetitive tasks, cutting deployment times, improving quality and simplifying processes.

Flexibility and agility

Make the most of what a DevOps approach brings to strengthen your ability to respond to customer and market needs quickly, and gain a competitive edge.

Security

With DevSecOps, improve the security of your applications and systems by embedding security practices into every aspect of developing and running your software.
Tips by SoKube

Tips by SoKube : How do you adopt a DevSecOps approach within your organization?

Rolling out a DevSecOps approach can be a complex undertaking that involves many changes for your company and your product teams. It’s important to structure this organizational shift so it improves collaboration between development and production teams, while also bringing in the teams responsible for application and IT infrastructure security:

Understand DevSecOps concepts and principles

To get off to a good start, it’s crucial to understand the concepts and principles of the DevSecOps approach, so you know how to apply them to your teams and raise awareness of the impact on your organization. This can include reading white papers, attending conferences, or taking part in training…

Set a strategy

It’s important to define a DevSecOps strategy that takes into account your organization’s objectives and constraints, as well as the challenges of change. This strategy must be clearly communicated to teams and guide the decisions made when rolling out a DevSecOps approach.

Train your teams

It’s essential to train your teams on the concepts and practices used in a DevSecOps approach, explaining the principles and showing them how to apply them day to day. This lets your teams work efficiently in a way that fits your organization’s needs.

Monitor team results and performance

Setting up key performance indicators (KPIs) to assess your organization’s progress in adopting a DevSecOps approach is also worth considering. This lets you spot the strengths and weaknesses of your approach and make the adjustments you need.