There is no deployment without operations. And there is no peace of mind without automation. We use Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Salt and Chef (among other lesser known solutions like cdist) to achieve this goal.
Our approach is strongly architectured around UNIX derivatives (BSD, Solaris/IllumOS, etc) and UNIX-inspired (mostly Linux) Operating Systems. This leads to our particular affinity for Open Source Software (OSS), and an inclination to prefer filters and simple, single purpose software in general.
We have found the practice of keeping software simple, small and modular, and using many distinct binaries to achieve a stated objective, to be a particularly effective way to remain both reliable and efficient.
Indeed, such a topology, while shifting some of the complexity onto the Operating System (IPC, etc), allows to quickly and accurately isolate any faulty component, and replace them in record time, without impacting the rest of the stack. In effect, this is equivalent to using many, small micro-services and replacing their HTTP API with a standard-stream, signals, and shell environment based API.
This ideology also allows for mix-and-matching languages and technologies to best leverage the capabilities of each, while keeping the solution maintainable and extensible.
We are looking forward to assisting you tidy and optimize your infrastructure design and automation. We can provide you with industry standard, as well as novel and tailored, solutions for your specific needs.
Please get in touch with us to let us know what challenges we could assist you with.