What it is
Cloud architecture and build means creating a private or hybrid cloud in your data centre or a partner’s. We design and configure virtualisation and container platforms, such as OpenStack and Kubernetes, connect them to storage and the network and put automated management in place. Before handover we test automatic failover: we deliberately shut down nodes and confirm that workloads keep running. The result is a ready environment where your teams can deploy applications with confidence. The environment can be extended with public cloud resources where that makes sense for specific workloads.
What you get
- Control over resources: data and costs stay in your hands, with the option to run some workloads in the public cloud.
- Proven availability: failover tests show that the cluster survives a node failure.
- Repeatable configuration: the infrastructure is described as code, so the environment can be rebuilt or extended in a controlled way.
- A ready environment: access, monitoring and documentation are in place at handover.
How we work
- Choosing the architecture: we assess applications, workloads and requirements and choose a private or hybrid model.
- Build: we install and configure the virtualisation and container platforms, storage and network.
- Testing: we run load and automatic failover tests and document the results.
- Handover: we train your team and hand over the environment with operating documentation.