Cloud & Platform Engineering

Solution walkthrough

Make the platform easier to run

Improve deployment automation, observability, access and recovery. Turn the work uncovered during migration into a practical modernization plan.

Example workflow: Platform and engineering teams.

Discuss this use case

The operating problem

A platform has moved to the cloud, but releases, access changes and operating tasks still require manual coordination. The team needs to improve the way services are deployed and maintained without replacing every application or disrupting the current estate.

From input to action

How it works.

  1. 01

    Choose the bottleneck

    Review how changes reach production and where operating work accumulates. Prioritize improvements against a specific service or engineering outcome rather than a technology checklist.

  2. 02

    Build the improved path

    Introduce the relevant automation, deployment, access or observability changes. Keep compatibility and recovery explicit while a representative service moves onto the new path.

  3. 03

    Make it repeatable

    Package the proven changes as maintained templates and runbooks. Agree ownership, train the operating team and extend the pattern to the next suitable workloads.

What we deliver

  • Prioritized modernization plan
  • Updated platform services and automation
  • Validated reference workload
  • Operating templates, runbooks and ownership

What to measure

Agree a baseline and acceptance targets around the operating outcome.

  • Time and manual effort to deliver a change
  • Release failures and recovery behavior
  • Platform support effort and service performance

Explore the work

Related ApexFlo projects and products.

Completed delivery

Approximately 500 workloads in six months

Approximately 500 VMware workloads moved to Amazon EC2 through replication, target-side validation and controlled cutover.

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