Automation and Infrastructure as Code

Scope of work

• Industrialised provisioning with Terraform and OpenTofu.
• Configuration management and hardening with Ansible.
• Development of bespoke roles, collections and modules.
• Centralised orchestration, CI/CD pipelines and secret management.
• Event-driven automation and remediation of recurring incidents.

Deliverables

• A structured, versioned and documented infrastructure code repository.
• Reusable roles and modules, tested and aligned with your standards.
• A continuous integration pipeline with automated validation and tests.
• A target configuration baseline and compliance checking.

Technologies

• Ansible, Ansible Vault, Semaphore, Event-Driven Ansible.
• Terraform and OpenTofu, with OpenStack, Proxmox and Kubernetes providers.
• GitLab CE, GitLab CI/CD, ansible-lint and unit testing.

Engagement terms

Ten to thirty days, usually in short iterations, as supervised time and materials or fixed price.

How the engagement runs

Phase 1 — Current state

• Inventory of manual steps and of configuration drift.
• Identification of the highest-return work items.

Phase 2 — Automation foundation

• Repository structure, inventories and secret management.
• Development of the first roles and modules.

Phase 3 — Industrialisation

• CI/CD pipeline, testing and validation before application.
• Centralised orchestration and access management.

Phase 4 — Self-sufficiency

• Compliance checking and drift dashboards.
• Team training and handover of the repository.