DevOps Onboarding: What to Expect
From pipeline audit to daily deploys: the implementation journey.
Overview
DevOps transformation is not a weekend project. It's a phased engagement that starts with understanding your current state, designing the target pipeline, migrating workloads without disruption, and then continuously optimizing.
Standard timeline: 4–8 weeks to initial pipeline capability, with ongoing operations and optimization from there.
The Four Phases
Pipeline Audit Week 1
We map your existing CI/CD, identify bottlenecks, and measure your current DORA metrics as a baseline. Toolchain inventory, test coverage analysis, and deployment process documentation.
Target State Design Week 2
Pipeline architecture, quality gates, rollback strategy, and observability stack, tailored to your tech, team, and risk tolerance. Documented and agreed with stakeholders.
Implementation & Migration Weeks 3–6
New pipeline built alongside your existing one. Workloads migrated gradually, one service at a time. Engineered for zero disruption to your current release cadence. Your team is trained as we go.
Operate & Optimize Week 6+
Ongoing pipeline operations, DORA metric tracking, weekly delivery reviews, and continuous optimization. We don't "hand off." We operate the pipeline alongside your team.
What You Need to Prepare
Repository Access
Read access to your code repositories and CI/CD configuration for the audit. We'll define specific permissions for implementation during design.
Toolchain Details
What CI/CD, IaC, container runtime, and monitoring tools you currently use. Even if they're partially configured or "we started but didn't finish."
A Pilot Service
One service to migrate first. Ideally something non-critical but representative of your architecture. This becomes the template for the rest.
Team Availability
A technical lead available for design sessions and a developer available during migration. 3–5 hours per week during implementation.