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DevOps and Cloud Engineering

Our DevOps and cloud engineering practice builds the delivery pipeline and infrastructure around your applications: Azure landing zones, Azure DevOps pipelines, infrastructure as code and Kubernetes clusters run either in the cloud or on your own hardware, so that shipping software stops being an event.

This is a standalone practice, not an add on to an ERP project. A good portion of the work we do here is for teams with no Business Central footprint at all.

The goal is unglamorous and specific: make deployment boring. When releasing is boring, teams release often, and when teams release often, individual changes get small enough that failures stop being frightening.

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What DevOps and Cloud Engineering includes

Azure landing zones

Subscription topology, network design, identity, policy and cost controls established before workloads arrive, rather than retrofitted once the bill surprises someone.

Azure DevOps pipelines

Build and release pipelines with automated testing, approval gates and environment promotion, including pipelines for Business Central AL extensions.

Infrastructure as code

Terraform or Bicep so environments are reproducible and reviewable. Manually built infrastructure cannot be rebuilt reliably after an incident.

Kubernetes

Cluster design, workload onboarding, autoscaling, ingress and secrets management. We run Kubernetes on AKS, on other clouds, or on your own hardware where data residency or cost makes that the right answer.

Observability

Metrics, logs, traces and alerting that point at causes rather than symptoms, so on call engineers are not left guessing at two in the morning.

Cost engineering

Right sizing, reservation planning and tagging discipline. Cloud bills grow quietly, and the fix is structural rather than a one off cleanup.

Certified for devops and cloud engineering

The Microsoft certifications our team holds for this work.

  • Microsoft Certified FundamentalsAZ-900Azure FundamentalsFundamentals
  • Microsoft Certified AssociateAZ-104Azure Administrator AssociateAssociate
  • Microsoft Certified ExpertAZ-400DevOps Engineer ExpertExpert
  • Microsoft Certified ExpertAZ-305Azure Solutions Architect ExpertExpert

How the engagement runs

  1. Assess

    We review current infrastructure, deployment process, incident history and cloud spend.

  2. Design

    A target architecture with a migration path that does not require a big bang weekend.

  3. Implement

    Landing zone, pipelines and infrastructure as code delivered incrementally.

  4. Transfer

    Your engineers pair with ours through the build, so the resulting platform is one your team can operate.

What you end up with

Releases measured in minutes rather than scheduled weekends

Environments that can be rebuilt from source control

Alerting that identifies causes instead of symptoms

Cloud spend that is understood and attributable

Who this is for

Engineering teams whose release process has become the bottleneck, businesses moving from on premises hosting to Azure, and organisations running Kubernetes without a platform team to support it.

DevOps and Cloud Engineering questions

Azure is where most of our work sits, and Azure DevOps is our default pipeline tooling, but Kubernetes work is not tied to any one cloud. We run clusters on AKS, on other providers and on customer owned hardware where data residency, latency or cost makes that the better answer.

Yes. Regulated data, predictable heavy workloads and existing hardware investment are all legitimate reasons to keep Kubernetes on your own infrastructure. The pipeline, infrastructure as code and observability practices are the same either way.

If you have AL extensions, yes. Extensions benefit from source control, automated build and a tested deployment path exactly like any other software. Businesses running Business Central entirely on standard functionality with no customisation generally do not need this service.

That is the intended outcome. Your engineers pair with ours during the build, everything lives in source control with documentation, and we plan the handover from the start rather than treating it as an afterthought at the end.

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Thirty minutes with a senior engineer, not a salesperson. Bring the system you are stuck on and you will leave with a written summary of your options and a rough scope, whether or not you go on to work with ForgeSolutionz.

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