DevOps: continuous integration and deployment for your applications
Production releases that depend on one person and manual operations that are difficult to trace make application development harder. AXELITES helps bring development and operations together so releases become more repeatable, with understood steps, useful controls and responsibilities shared clearly between the teams involved in delivery.
An environment for your applications
Make application releases repeatable and understandable
We work on collaboration between development and operations, and the tools that make releases repeatable: continuous integration, testing, cloud configuration and production monitoring. Each automation addresses an identified difficulty in your workflow.
Delivery pipelines
We define build, validation and deployment stages suited to the application. Their results remain understandable to developers and the people responsible for operating the environments receiving each release.
- Continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD)
- Automation of repetitive operations
Integrated testing
Automated checks focus on risks and important workflows. They provide useful information for a release decision, without assuming that a large number of tests proves adequate coverage.
- Tests run within the delivery pipeline
- Results shared between development and QA
Tracked configuration
Configuration and differences between environments are documented. Secrets remain separate from shared material, making changes easier to manage without unnecessarily exposing credentials or other sensitive access information.
- Cloud environments and containers
- Configuration and access management
Observability
Operational information is selected to explain incidents and slowdowns. Collection takes account of the relevant uses, its operating costs and the confidentiality of the data processed by applications.
- Production application monitoring
- Incident and performance analysis
How we move forward together
Examine an existing release
We follow a recent change into production. Waiting, manual actions and missing information help identify the first improvements to the way development and operations work together on delivery.
Define the controls
Automatic stages and human approvals are assigned according to risk. Failure criteria and expected information are defined before the team builds the corresponding delivery automation and reporting.
Introduce practices progressively
We apply new practices to a limited scope. Teams check their understanding of results and procedures before extending the delivery chain to additional applications or operating environments.
Improve through feedback
Incidents, delivery delays and remaining manual operations inform adjustments. The pipeline stays connected to observed needs rather than becoming an accumulation of tools with no clear operational purpose.
Shared procedures and a delivery pipeline your teams can operate and improve.
Your questions, our answers
Practical answers to help you make the right decisions before starting your project.
Discuss my projectDepending on scope, deliverables can include a build and testing pipeline, deployment procedures, configuration management and monitoring dashboards. They are documented with the teams who will use them. Acceptance checks reproducible delivery and the ability to identify and handle failures.
We observe delivery lead times, manual operations, deployment failures and time needed to understand incidents. A baseline is established before changes. These indicators guide further improvements, accounting for release frequency and complexity.
No. Work can begin by making a build reliable, automating a check or documenting a release on existing infrastructure. Infrastructure changes should address an identified constraint. The aim is to make delivery more manageable, rather than simply introducing additional technologies.
Repeatable operations can be automated while retaining a human decision before deployment. The appropriate autonomy depends on available tests, risks and business constraints. A useful pipeline must also make it possible to stop a release and understand exactly where it stands.
Deployment organizes a particular release into operation. DevOps improves how changes are built, tested, delivered and observed over time. The approaches complement each other: an established deployment procedure can become a repeatable stage within a broader application delivery pipeline.
Review your delivery pipeline
Describe a recent production release and the operations that remain difficult.