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Alphacroft

Services / Operate · CAP.010

Infrastructure that's boring in the best possible way.

Pipelines, monitoring, and cloud architecture that make releases uneventful and outages rare, with a bill that finally makes sense.

1-6 weeks1-2 engineersFixed scope or monthly

01 · When you need this

If any of these sound familiar, you’re in the right place.

  • Deploying is a Friday-afternoon ritual of fear performed by the one person who knows how.
  • Your cloud bill doubled and nobody can explain which line items matter.
  • Customers report outages before your team notices them.
  • The auditor / enterprise customer just asked for your security posture and backup story.
  • Everything runs on one server someone set up in 2021. It has secrets.

02 · What we deliver

Exactly what you walk away with.

No vague 'solutions'. These are the concrete deliverables: each one is a line in the proposal and a checkbox at handover.

DEL.01

CI/CD pipeline

Push to deploy, with tests as the gate: releases become unremarkable.

DEL.02

Monitoring & alerting

The system tells you it's sick before customers do, and only pages a human when a human is needed.

DEL.03

Infrastructure as code

The environment is a reviewed file, not a memory. Rebuildable from scratch, documented by definition.

DEL.04

Cost report & controls

The bill explained line by line, the waste removed, budgets alarmed.

DEL.05

Backup & recovery, tested

A restore actually performed, timed, and documented: an untested backup is a hope.

DEL.06

Security baseline

Access controls, secret management, patching cadence, the answers enterprise customers ask for.

03 · How it runs

Phase by phase, with nothing hidden.

Every phase states what happens and what you see in your project portal while it does.

01

Assessment

3-5 days

Map what exists, find the single points of failure, read the bill.

In your portal: The assessment with a ranked risk list.

02

Stabilize

1-2 weeks

Backups verified, monitoring live, the scariest risks retired first.

In your portal: Risk list burning down in the open.

03

Automate

1-3 weeks

Pipeline, infrastructure as code, deploy on green.

In your portal: First automated deploys, documented.

04

Optimize & hand over

3-5 days

Cost controls, runbook, and training for your team.

In your portal: Runbook and cost dashboard.

04 · Standards

Non-negotiables, in writing.

Restore-tested backups

We don't report 'backups configured.' We report 'restore performed in N minutes.'

No hero dependencies

If a deploy needs a specific person awake, the work isn't done.

Alert hygiene

Every alert is actionable or it's deleted. Alarm fatigue causes outages too.

Least privilege

Access is granted by role, logged, and revocable in one step when someone leaves.

05 · Stack

Tools chosen for your handover, not our comfort.

AWS / GCP / HetznerDockerTerraformGitHub ActionsGrafana

Cloud choice follows your workload and budget, not fashion; sometimes the honest answer is a €40/month VPS with excellent backups, and we'll say so.

06 · Questions

Asked often, answered straight.

We're small. Is DevOps overkill?
The label is; the substance isn't. A small business needs exactly three things: deploys that can't destroy production, backups that provably restore, and an alert when the site is down. That's a one-to-two-week engagement, not a platform team.
Will this lock us into a cloud vendor?
Infrastructure as code is the anti-lock-in: the environment is described in files you own and can re-point. Where we use vendor-specific services we note the exit path in the runbook.
Do we need you permanently afterwards?
No, the handover trains your team to run it. Many clients keep a small monthly retainer for the 3am scenarios; plenty don't. Both are fine.

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