PAQS DevOps & IaC Bootstrap: 12-Week Implementation

Elegantly integrating and employing Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines, repositories, and good IaC practices, PAQS-IAC ensures a smooth and efficient transition while maintaining high standards of quality, all within your budget constraints.

With PAQS-IAC, scalability and compliance are fundamental, ensuring your IaC architecture evolves with your business needs without compromising integrity or efficiency. From enhancing security to optimising performance, PAQS-IAC enables a rapid deployment of strong Azure automation methods and processes, supporting your DevOps and IaC journey from inception to operation. Gain a strategic advantage with advanced cloud automation methods, bolstered security, resilience, performance, and recoverability, all tailored to modernise your Azure platform.

PAQS-IAC - Solution highlights:

• Enterprise-grade automation: We rapidly prepare your Azure DevOps and IaC environment to support the high-quality automation methods required by your growing cloud technology estate.
• Research and field-influenced standards and methods: Leverage BlakYaks’ extensive expertise and library, developed through years of fieldwork and research, to quickly bootstrap your environment with the tools, methods, and standards that ensure long-term support for your automation journey.
• Expert team: Our PAQS-IAC implementation squad delivers quality outcomes swiftly. We then transition support to your operations team or BlakYaks' own SpecOps team to provide ongoing support for the environment for as long as you need.

Solution features:

1. Enterprise-grade end-to-end automation : Leveraging existing BlakYaks' designs, patterns, and standards, our PAQS-IAC solution provides an Azure DevOps bootstrap service, encompassing solution implementation and deployment. Additionally, we integrate CI/CD pipelines, repositories, IaC practices, and appropriate CNCF tools into your DevOps workflow, enabling automated transition from development to production environments.
2. Deployed and managed with code: Deployment of an enterprise-grade Azure DevOps platform using Infrastructure as Code (IaC). This approach ensures that your Azure DevOps setup is managed with code throughout its lifecycle, providing consistency, scalability, and enhanced security.  
3. IAC Documentation: Our PAQS-IAC solution includes comprehensive documentation, encompassing design and operations runbooks, along with all associated design artifacts and IaC code modules fully documented.

Customer scenarios - Our PAQS-ALZ is suited for customers that:

• Establish and/or mature DevOps and IaC strategy - As customers scale and encounter increased complexity in Microsoft Azure, they recognise that advancing their automation methods is crucial for effective large-scale management. This maturity in automation not only optimises costs but also meets the heightened demands driven by their business’s digital transformation agenda.

• Optimise operational efficiency – In large technology environments, it is essential for technology teams to align around a unified set of strategic technologies, architectures, processes, standards, and methods. Establishing the right foundations for high-quality automation standards is a crucial step in the journey toward automation excellence.

• Manage hybrid cloud environments with code – Enterprise customers often face the challenge of managing extensive and complex technology estates spread across both cloud and traditional data centre environments. Implementing a robust automation strategy to standardise automation across the entire technology estate offers significant long-term business benefits.

Outcomes and benefits:

• Production-ready for DevOps, DevSecOps, and GitOps. Our solution ensures enterprise-grade outcomes swiftly, providing a production-ready environment for DevOps, DevSecOps, and GitOps practices. Integrating IaC tools into CI/CD pipelines facilitates automated rollouts, minimising manual intervention and ensuring a smooth transition to modern deployment practices.

• Increased business agility. Our PAQS-IAC solution empowers business agility by addressing challenges such as manual processes, scalability issues, and excessive costs. It facilitates the rapid deployment of new environments, simplifies operations, and replaces manual processes with automated pipelines.

• Enhanced security, risk management, compliance. By embedding security, compliance, and controls at the core of automation processes, we set our customers up with strong standards and best practices that underpin all other Azure platform services, workloads and platforms. Our solution approach sets the right tone for managing security, compliance and minimising risk for all elements of the platform moving forward.

BlakYaks lead the way in building Azure platforms with exceptional DevSecOps and IaC to accelerate platform automation and self-service. Get in touch for more information.