DevSecOps Migration / Optimization of Container Implementations
Our "Outcome Based" approach combined with an iterative and agile delivery methodology benefits our Clients by providing reliable outcomes at a predictable cost.
Outcomes
- Secure migration to Container environments
- End-to-End automation supporting Application Development Lifecycle
- Support for Security & Compliance controls (ex. NIST, PCI etc.) and CSP Best practices
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) auto-generated as outcome enable future maintenance
KansoCloud specializes in accelerated delivery of DevSecOps automation using "No-Code / Low-Code" platforms to convert higher level user specifications into underlying cloud resources & configs while enforcing built-in security & compliance controls.
Implementing a highly secure and compliant Cloud/Container infrastructure is far from a solved problem, even with today’s automation tools, IaC, and scripting languages. The management of resources, scripts and code gets complicated over time and makes the process error-prone and slow. KansoCloud has taken a different approach where machines can convert human intent and high level declarative specification in terms of product architecture, scale, security, compliance and auto-generate all the code, resources required for a fully compliant Cloud/Container infrastructures.
Automation of Infrastructure, Application Delivery & Testing
Our "Outcome Based" approach combined with an iterative and agile delivery methodology benefits our Clients by providing reliable outcomes at a predictable cost.
Outcomes
- Establish an end-to-end automated CD pipeline with any necessary manual approval
- Enforce a centralized code repository to manage source code, configuration and version control
- Establish an automated testing infrastructure to cover source code analysis, functional, performance and security testing
- Ensure a continuous feedback loop so pipelines can be updated frequently to improve efficiency
Automation of end-to-end build, deployment and application test automation processes become critical to ensure the tested components and dependencies make their way to production in a repeatable and reliable manner. A well orchestrated Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline plays a critical role in ensuring the successful movement of code through automated testing cycles and through environments. Implementing CI best practices to manage software Infrastructure, Application Delivery & Test Automation development requires a heavier lift with changes to organization culture in addition to appropriate skill sets. More importantly, it takes time to adapt and internalize the culture within an organization. In our opinion, the first step in this journey should be to establish CD pipelines that can start with unit tested software and push it through deployment, verification and automated testing cycles.
In our experience, developing and maintaining a test automation framework provides a better long-term ROI compared to supporting manual testing processes for applications. While setting up the initial framework and automation will take additional effort and time upfront, it is completely worth it based on the reliability and savings they offer over time by supporting multiple release cycles with incremental additional effort.
Our test automation methodology aims to maximize the success of building and adopting automated testing by making the test development process an integral part of the product lifecycle. Our goal is to achieve the following major outcomes:
- Embrace the principle of "Shift-Left" testing in the product lifecycle so that total software development effort and thereby costs can be reduced by using continuous and automated test methodologies. This cost reduction can be achieved as a result of enabling a constant and compressed feedback loop between developers, testers and end-users as part of an integrated product lifecyle
- Enable flexible pipelines and automation framework using open source platforms so the customer can maximize the use of "No-Code/Low-Code" constructs and develop specific plugins to only cover any special testing requirements
- Integrate automated testing with the version control system so that the processes to build, deploy and test are automatically triggered based on developer actions such as a request to merge code into the appropriate branch
DevOps Integrated Continuous Testing Methodology
TestOps Benefits
- Reliable software deliveries without compromising quality
- Repeatable deployments via integrated DevOps pipelines
- Automated infrastructure and functional tests triggered via pipelines
- Actionable insights with supporting DevOps and quality metrics
TestOps Execution Process
- Utilizes on accelerated workflowbased serverless solution to efficiently handle test execution using a scalable and agile architecture
- Enables parallel execution of multiple test suites using Docker based agents or cloud based testing platforms
- Supports generation of integrated test reports for analysis and corrective action
Test Automation Methodology
Our test automation methodology maximize the success of building and adopting automated testing processes by making the test development process an integral part of the product development life cycle to accomplish the following outcomes:
- Embraces the principle of "Shift-Left" testing in the product development life cycle so that total software development effort and thereby costs can be reduced by using continuous and automated test methodologies. This cost reduction can achieved by enabling an iterative and compressed feedback loop between developers, testers, and end-users as part of integrated product development lifecycle
- Enables integrating automation frameworks with flexible pipelines using open source technologies so the customer can maximize the use of "No-Code/Low-Code" constructs and develop specific plugins to only cover any special testing requirements
- Integrates automated testing with a software version control system so that different stpes with software build, deployment, and testing phases are triggered automatically
Metrics and Monitoring Dashboards
Test execution visibility assitsin troubleshooting failures quickly and accelerates the feedback loop back to developers improving the overall application delivery lifecycle.
- Monitor overall test coverage
- View metrics on failed tests build over build
- Monitor tests with unreliable results
- Review the efforts of code changes on a test suite over time
- Monitor test suite performance over time
- Drill down deeper to investigate failing tests
SRE-Based Autonomous Managed Operations
Our "Outcome Based" approach combined with an iterative and agile delivery methodology benefits our Clients by providing reliable outcomes at a predictable cost.
Outcomes
- 24X7 SRE-based Managed Operations for Cloud and Container environments
- Autonomous monitoring for known issues with remediation recommendations in advance
- Machine Learning techniques that can analyze application behavior and constantly evaluate remediation efficacy to improve the overall operational environment
- Incident, Change & Release Management
- Patching/DR Strategy & Backup Management
- Continuous Security, Compliance & Cost Optimization
Modern operations organizations are expected to either undertake proactive preventive action to address potential issues or support automated remediation of issues with little or no human intervention. There are two philosophies when it comes to detecting and remediating issues within an operational infrastructure.
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Reactive
Detect issues “as soon” as they occur and then execute appropriate remediation blueprints
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Proactive
Monitor for symptoms that can lead to known issues, provide recommendations for remediation before the issue can occur
Instead of waiting for issues to occur and then detect them for further remediation, we utilize industry leading tools to identify problematic patterns as they occur so that operations teams can stay ahead so we can stay ahead of issues and take remedial action. These tools are based on Machine Learning techniques that can analyze application behavior and constantly evaluate remediation efficacy to improve the overall operational environment.
Application Transformation & Data Science Engineering
Our "Outcome Based" approach combined with an iterative and agile delivery methodology benefits our Clients by providing reliable outcomes at a predictable cost.
Outcomes
Application Transformation Services
Re-Architect & Modernize monolithic and custom applications to use Cloud Native services and based on the three key pillars of:
- Microservices API based architecture
- Self-Service enabled infrastructure
- Modernized Data infrastructure
Data Science Engineering Services
- Analyze and prepare raw data and associated data infrastructure for analysis
- Develop, train, validate and promote Data Models used by core applications
- Design & develop data pipelines and data queries in support of application development
Additional Services for Application Transformation
Transforming legacy or cloud based monolithic applications to a modern microservices based architecture requires deliberate assessment and execution. We will conduct a thorough assessment of your current application code base and formulate a strategy to transform it into a modern digital platform based on the three key pillars of Agility, Security & Compliance and Reliability. This transformation strategy will include a low cost, low risk proposition to make incremental updates to the application. We will also ensure these changes will align with the long term application strategy for the application.
Our Application assessment will include:
- Transformation plan, timing, and approach for application code
- Documentation of dependencies for taking the application through this transformation journe
Cloud Cost Optimization / Rebilling
Our "Outcome Based" approach combined with an iterative and agile delivery methodology benefits our Clients by providing reliable outcomes at a predictable cost
Outcomes
- Recieve an upfront reduction in monthly cloud service provider charges, based on account structure
- Proactive management of your Reservations, Resources, and Storage Strategy, with clear and actionable recommendations
- Rebill clients receive complimentary access to CloudCheckr to ensure your cloud spend is under control while allowing for growth and scale
- Quarterly deep-dive “Cloud Cost Optimization” exercises
- Retain any existing or future credits from cloud service providers since all those can be applied as is and the discount will be applied for any charges over and above the credit amount
Compliance Manager Support
Our "Outcome Based" approach combined with an iterative and agile delivery methodology benefits our Clients by providing reliable outcomes at a predictable cost
Outcomes
- Provide appropriate guidance to achieve SOC 2 / HIPAA / NIST
- Help integrate and onboard applicable systems into the appropriate compliance management platform
- Review all applicable organizational policies to facilitate the document approval processes
- Recommend tools/providers for conducting third party activities (such as Penetration Testing) required to achieve the appropriate compliance certification
- Assist in detecting gaps in compliance
- Provide recommendations for external auditors and assist in the interview process to select the auditing firm
- Act as Client’s liaison and interface directly with the external Auditor to answer their queries and provide support throughout the process