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Infrastructure That Explains Itself

Environments described in code, deployments that run themselves, and dashboards that answer the 3am question — so shipping stops depending on who is awake.

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Overview

Cloud platforms built to be operated, not just launched

Most cloud pain is not the cloud. It is a console someone clicked through eighteen months ago that nobody can reproduce. We put the estate in code, make deployment boring, and leave you with runbooks that work when the person who wrote them is on leave.

What we insist on

  • No clicking in consoles. Terraform for the estate, reviewed like application code. If it is not in the repository, it does not exist and cannot be rebuilt.
  • Deployment is not a ceremony. A merge builds, tests, scans and ships. Rollback is a documented, rehearsed step rather than an improvisation under pressure.
  • Observability before incidents. Logs, metrics and traces wired up while things are calm, with alerts tied to symptoms users feel rather than to CPU graphs.
  • Cost as an engineering metric. Spend attributed per service and reviewed monthly. Cloud bills grow quietly until someone is accountable for the line items.
Server and network infrastructure
Infra as codeRebuildable from the repository
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What we build

The platform, the pipeline and the pager

Ten engagements covering the estate you run, the path code takes to reach it, and what happens when something breaks.

Why teams pick us

Why choose SysStacks?

Everything in code

The estate lives in Terraform and Git. Any environment can be rebuilt from the repository, which is the only real test of infrastructure as code.

Boring deployments

Build, test, scan, ship on merge. When releasing is unremarkable, teams release often — and small releases are the ones that fail safely.

Alerts a human can act on

Tied to what users experience, with a runbook link attached. Pages that cannot be acted on get deleted, not tuned.

Rollback is rehearsed

The undo path is written down and practised before it is needed. An untested rollback is a plan, not a capability.

We hand over the keys

Runbooks, diagrams and onboarding notes written for your engineers. The goal is that you can run this without us.

How we deliver

How a platform engagement runs

Six stages, one continuous loop — infrastructure is never finished, only current.

1

Assessment

What you run, where it runs, what it costs, and which parts nobody dares touch. We document the estate as it is, including the awkward bits.

2

Target design

Architecture, environment strategy, network and identity model, with the migration sequenced so the riskiest move happens while everyone is watching.

3

Codify

The estate expressed in Terraform and modules, reviewed and versioned, with environments reproducible from a clean state.

4

Pipelines & observability

CI/CD, scanning and telemetry stood up together, so the first migrated workload arrives with its dashboards already working.

5

Migrate & cut over

Workload by workload, with rollback available at each step and traffic shifted gradually rather than at midnight in one go.

6

Operate & improve

Cost reviews, incident retrospectives and capacity planning — plus the enablement that moves the pager to your team when they are ready for it.

Industries we focus on

Platforms we run for these sectors

Financial services

Segregated environments, change control and audit evidence produced by the pipeline rather than assembled by hand before an inspection.

Healthcare

Estates designed around HIPAA and GDPR obligations, with data residency, encryption and access review handled as configuration, not policy documents.

Retail & commerce

Platforms that hold through a peak trading window, with load testing done in advance and a scaling plan that does not depend on someone watching a graph.

Manufacturing & industrial

Hybrid estates where plant systems stay on-premise and everything else moves, with the boundary between them made explicit and monitored.

Education

Environments that absorb enrolment and term-start spikes without over-provisioning for the eleven quiet months in between.

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Our tech stack

The platform tooling we run

Clouds, orchestration and observability — plus the automation that keeps all three describable in a pull request.

AWSAWS
AzureAzure
Google CloudGoogle Cloud
TerraformTerraform
AnsibleAnsible
DockerDocker
KubernetesKubernetes
LinuxLinux
NGINXNGINX
BashBash
PythonPython
GoGo
GitHub ActionsGitHub Actions
GitLabGitLab
JenkinsJenkins
GrafanaGrafana
PrometheusPrometheus
ElasticsearchElasticsearch
RedisRedis
PostgreSQLPostgreSQL
KafkaKafka
CloudflareCloudflare
SonarQubeSonarQube
VercelVercel

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Featured insights

Stories of our transformations across services and industries

From concept to completion.

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