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Small teams package

XS service package

For small teams starting with DevOps

Essential DevOps support for small teams establishing infrastructure foundations, Kubernetes operations, and basic CI/CD practices.

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What is included

Package scope is confirmed before kickoff, including responsibilities, cadence, access, handoff, and exclusions.

  • Dedicated project manager, team leader, and middle+ engineers
  • Slack support, weekly video meetings, monthly reports, and Kanban visibility
  • K3s Kubernetes setup, basic monitoring, security hardening, updates, and patching
  • Basic GitHub Actions or GitLab CI/CD build, test, image, and deployment automation
  • Software, infrastructure, and cloud-native consultancy for foundation decisions

Package feature coverage

These capability summaries show how the commercial package scope changes as you move from essential business-hours support to production-critical SRE coverage.

Dedicated team

Your assigned DevOps experts

Named project management, technical leadership, and engineers who learn your systems and keep continuity across delivery and support.

Middle+ engineers with project management and technical oversight.

Communication channels

Stay connected with your team

Slack support, weekly video meetings, monthly reports, and Kanban visibility keep scope, decisions, and delivery evidence clear.

Business-hours response with the full communication suite.

Kubernetes infrastructure

Production-ready container orchestration

K3s cluster architecture, node pools, networking, ingress, security hardening, updates, and workload operations scaled to the plan.

Basic setup, maintenance, monitoring, logging, and patching.

CI/CD pipelines

Automated build, test, and deployment workflows

Pipeline design for GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, and Jenkins where the plan includes it, covering build, test, image, deploy, and rollback paths.

Basic build, test, container image, and deployment automation.

Observability stack

Monitoring, logging, and tracing

Dashboards, alerts, Prometheus/Grafana foundations, and expanded Loki, Tempo, SLO/SLI, and trend analysis where included.

Basic monitoring with Prometheus/Grafana foundations.

Consultancy

Architecture and cloud-native guidance

Software architecture, infrastructure architecture, cloud-native, and DevSecOps guidance delivered through the plan cadence.

Included consultancy for essentials and foundations.

How this package is scoped

Package pricing only works when the operating boundary is explicit before kickoff.

  1. Step 1

    Confirm systems, repositories, clusters, cloud accounts, and incident expectations.

  2. Step 2

    Agree the package boundary, communication rhythm, access model, and first delivery backlog.

  3. Step 3

    Review monthly evidence, open risks, and whether to stay on the package or adjust scope.

Best for

  • Startups building their first production infrastructure
  • Small teams with straightforward deployment needs
  • Projects with business-hours usage and standard traffic patterns
  • Teams new to Kubernetes and CI/CD that need expert guidance

Plan limitations

  • • Infrastructure as Code and preview environments require S or M
  • • DevSecOps, guaranteed SLA, 24/7 support, disaster recovery, and security auditing require M or separate scope

Common upgrade paths

  • • Priority support
  • • Infrastructure as Code
  • • Preview environments
  • • Advanced CI/CD
  • • DevSecOps