Buying Guide
Hiring a DevOps consultant in Ireland: cost, scope and engagement models
A practical guide for Irish CTOs comparing a DevOps consultant, contractor, project team or support retainer.
9 min read
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Practical buying guides, migration checklists and implementation advice based on real delivery work.
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11 articles
CI/CD Audits
What is included in a CI/CD audit?
CI/CD audit scope, evidence, deliverables and red flags for Jenkins, GitHub Actions and GitLab CI environments.
8 min read
Jenkins
How to migrate a large Jenkins estate without stopping delivery
A staged Jenkins migration plan for estates with many controllers, plugins, shared libraries and production jobs.
10 min read
Kubernetes Migration
Rancher to AWS EKS migration checklist for production teams
Plan discovery, platform parity, workload waves, rollback and operational handover for a Rancher-to-EKS migration.
11 min read
Platform Engineering
Platform engineering for small software teams: what to build first
A practical platform-engineering roadmap for SaaS teams that need faster delivery without building a large internal platform.
8 min read
Site Reliability Engineering
SRE consulting for growing teams: SLOs, error budgets and the first 90 days
A 90-day introduction to practical SRE for teams that need clearer reliability targets and less production firefighting.
9 min read
Kubernetes
Kubernetes production-readiness checklist for Irish SaaS teams
A production-readiness review covering workload design, security, deployment safety, observability and recovery.
10 min read
DevOps Support
DevOps support retainer vs contractor: which does your team need?
Compare ongoing DevOps support, embedded contract capacity and fixed project work for pipelines and platforms.
8 min read
Performance Engineering
K6 load testing before a product launch: a practical test plan
Plan realistic K6 scenarios, capacity targets, telemetry and release decisions before a high-traffic launch.
9 min read
DevSecOps
Adding security checks to CI/CD without blocking every release
A practical DevSecOps rollout for dependency, image, code and secret checks with an explicit exception process.
9 min read
AWS Cloud
AWS cost optimisation for non-production environments: where to start
A practical review of schedules, rightsizing, ownership and guardrails for reducing avoidable AWS spend.
8 min read