Cloud Infrastructure & DevOps

Robust cloud infrastructure, deployment automation, and DevOps practices for scalable, reliable systems.

Great software needs great infrastructure to run on. At Porter Phillips, we design, build, and manage cloud infrastructure that is secure, scalable, and cost-effective. From our base in Selby, North Yorkshire, we help businesses across the UK adopt modern DevOps practices that accelerate delivery, improve reliability, and reduce operational overhead. Our Azure-first approach means your infrastructure benefits from Microsoft's enterprise-grade security, global network, and comprehensive service catalogue — all managed through infrastructure as code for complete reproducibility.

Azure Cloud Architecture

We design cloud architectures on Microsoft Azure that balance performance, cost, and operational simplicity. From straightforward App Service deployments to complex multi-region architectures with Azure Front Door, Container Apps, and managed Kubernetes (AKS), we select the right services for your workload requirements. Every architecture is documented, reviewed, and designed for the scale you need today with a clear path to grow tomorrow. We implement Azure Well-Architected Framework principles to ensure your cloud environment is reliable, secure, cost-optimised, and operationally excellent.

CI/CD Pipeline Automation

We build continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines that automate your software delivery process end to end. Using GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps, we create pipelines that build, test, and deploy your applications automatically with every code change. Our pipelines include automated testing gates, security scanning, environment promotion workflows, and rollback capabilities. This automation reduces deployment risk, accelerates release cycles, and ensures consistent, repeatable deployments across development, staging, and production environments.

Infrastructure as Code

We manage all cloud infrastructure through code using Bicep and ARM Templates. This means your entire Azure environment — networking, compute, storage, databases, security policies — is defined in version-controlled templates that can be reviewed, tested, and deployed consistently. Infrastructure as code eliminates configuration drift, enables disaster recovery through complete environment rebuilds, and provides an audit trail of every change. We use parameterised templates to manage multiple environments (development, staging, production) from a single codebase.

Containerisation and Orchestration

For applications that benefit from containerisation, we package workloads in Docker containers and deploy them to Azure Container Instances, Azure Container Apps, or Azure Kubernetes Service depending on complexity and scale requirements. Containerisation provides consistent environments from development to production, efficient resource utilisation, and simplified dependency management. We implement container registries, image scanning, and automated container builds as part of your CI/CD pipeline.

Monitoring, Logging, and Alerting

You can't manage what you can't measure. We implement comprehensive monitoring using Azure Monitor and Application Insights that gives you real-time visibility into application performance, infrastructure health, and user behaviour. Our monitoring setups include custom dashboards, automated alerting for anomalies and threshold breaches, log aggregation, and distributed tracing for microservices architectures. We configure alert routing so the right people are notified through the right channels when issues arise, and implement runbooks for common incident response procedures.

Key Benefits

Scalable Azure cloud architecture following Well-Architected Framework

Automated CI/CD pipelines for faster, safer deployments

Infrastructure as code for reproducible environments

Containerisation for consistent deployment across environments

Comprehensive monitoring with proactive alerting

Reduced operational overhead through automation

Technologies We Use

AzureGitHub ActionsBicepARM TemplatesDockerKubernetesAzure DevOpsApplication InsightsTerraform

Frequently Asked Questions

Azure is our primary platform and where our deepest expertise lies, but we also have working knowledge of AWS and can implement multi-cloud or hybrid architectures when there's a genuine business requirement. For most UK businesses, Azure provides the best combination of capabilities, compliance certifications, and value.

Infrastructure as code means managing your cloud infrastructure through version-controlled templates rather than manual configuration. This ensures consistency across environments, enables disaster recovery through complete rebuilds, provides an audit trail of changes, and eliminates the "it works on my machine" problem. It's a fundamental best practice for reliable cloud operations.

Absolutely. We help teams adopt DevOps practices including CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, infrastructure as code, monitoring, and incident response processes. We work alongside your development team, implementing practices incrementally and providing training to ensure lasting adoption rather than just tooling installation.

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