About our DevOps Services
ADVANS Group proposes DevOps services since 2007.
We support worldwide industry leaders and highly specialized companies by building and managing their software development environment.
Our added-value lies in our software/DevOps/QA deep expertise, technology agnosticism and ability to offer fully customized solutions.
We have 10 software development centers in France and Serbia and a branch in the Silicon Valley.
We can set-up a dedidated DevOps team to facilitate your software deployment and to increase the quality of the product delivered and running in production.
What is meant by DevOps?
Inside a typical software team, there are:
- The development engineers, who code functionalities. That’s the « Dev » part inside « DevOps ».
- The test engineers (it can also be the role of the development team).
- The team in charge of deploying, monitoring and running the code on a dedicated server or in the cloud, with all the environment needed. That’s the « Ops » part inside « DevOps ».
DevOps is a set of best practices to be implemented to facilitate deployment and to increase the reliability of the product in production.
What does a DevOps team do?
Developers and IT managers generally have two different goals:
- On the one side, developers like to see their code live as soon as possible.
- On the other side, the IT role is to ensure the stability and protection of an infrastructure (composed of servers, applications etc.) to deliver the best quality of service.
The role of DevOps is to make a bridge between these two worlds, which sometimes have difficulties to understand each other, and this way help reduce the time-to-market.
Key benefits of our DevOps Services
Speed
Move faster to accelerate the pace of innovation of your customers, improve your ability to adapt to the market and gain efficiency and growth.
Fast delivery
Increase the pace and frequency of publications to innovate and optimize your products faster.
Reliability
Ensure the quality of application updates and infrastructure changes to confidently deliver your products at an accelerated pace while continuing to provide a positive end-user experience.
Scalability
Operate and manage your infrastructure and development processes on a large scale. Automation and consistency help you manage complex or changing systems efficiently and with less risk.
Enhanced collaboration
Create more effective teams with a DevOps cultural model that emphasizes principles such as taking responsibility. Development and operations teams work closely together, share many responsibilities and combine their workflows.
Security
Move forward quickly while maintaining control and compliance. You can adopt a DevOps model without sacrificing security, using automated compliance policies, tighter controls and configuration management techniques.
DevOps lifecycle
In a classical project organization, specifications are prepared, code is written, tested and in the end, after weeks or months of hard work, software is deployed.
Today, following Agile mode project organization, features prepared by different developers are regularly merged together on the development branch – we talk about continuous integration. And then, the code is deployed on a virtual machine (or in the cloud) all the time – we talk about continuous delivery.
This way, it’s not unusual to have a new version of the code deployed every day.
The DevOps role is to facilitate developers and IT managers understanding of their respective goals and needs.
To do so, we install a set of processes, tools, automation (tests for example), support and security (DevSecOps) so that it works as smoothly as possible.
In short, our DevOps teams turn policies into code through 3 phases…
Code
Define a common development environment; think micro-service; track and log any code change; version automation
Build & Test
Continuous testing; code quality; minor changes
Deploy & Monitor
Automate provisionning; service availability; alerting; preventing outage; zero downtime; deployment
…while securing all with DevSecOps:
- Continuous security checks
- Code and artifacts signing
- Integrity checks
- Licences checks
- Dependencies update and copyleft
- Threat modelling
- Compliance validation
Intervention modes
Here are our typical intervention modes:
Diagnosis
Recommendations based on the diagnosis
Definition and implementation process
Remote intervention
Time & material expertise
Service catalogue
Client Success Stories
Here are 3 of our project references in the DevOps area:
TELECOM OPERATOR |
CI PROCESS DEFINITION & AUTOMATION: The goal was to optimize the productivity of the development teams and the quality of their code. From process definition to tools integration and deployment. Technologies: Gitlab, Jenkins, Nexus, Docker, Jira, Sonarqube |
CONSUMER ELECTRONICS COMPANY |
OPERATING CI TOOL CHAIN: Support (day to day) & IS operations. Project management and realization. Monitor the whole environment, check the availability of services, send alerts, capacity management. Technologies: Gitlab, ClearCase, Jenkins, Artifactory, Nexus, Docker, Jira, Sonarqube, Nagios |
TRAVEL INDUSTRY IT PROVIDER |
UNIFIED CI/CD PLATFORM: Technologies: Bitbucket, Jenkins, Artifactory, Docker, Sonarqube, Ansible, Groovy, Java |
Looking for a DevOps Services Company?
ADVANS Group is an international software engineering services group of companies with a unique offer combining:
Expertise
Nearly 15 years' experience in DevOps
Quality and Confidentiality
Management System complying with ISO-9001, ISO-14001 & ISO-27001 standards
Trust
Building long term partnerships with our customers
Technical DNA
Founders, technical teams and business managers are all engineers
Passion
More than engineers, we are passionate people
Excellence
To target excellence, passion is a pre-requisite
ADVANS Group, Where Passion Leads to Excellence.
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