Key Challenges & Context: A New App Without the Right Foundations
When our client set out to launch a new business-critical application, their development team had the code but not the infrastructure to support it. As a greenfield project, there were no deployment environments, no cloud tenant, and no CI/CD pipelines in place. The developers were working with a self-hosted Git system and didn’t have the tooling to automate builds, tests, or releases.
Without an Azure tenant or infrastructure-as-code strategy, the team risked wasting time on manual setup, inconsistent environments, and unstable delivery pipelines. Every new feature deployed required extra effort and coordination. And as the project moved closer to production, those gaps became business-critical.
They needed a reliable environment to deploy to, a clear DevOps foundation to build on, and a scalable cloud setup that would support today’s app as well as future evolutions.
Our Approach: Building from the Ground Up, Then Handing Over the Keys
Since there was no existing infrastructure or cloud strategy in place, we started from scratch.
We deployed the application on an interim Azure tenant managed by our experts, giving developers a stable environment to test and ship code while the client ramped up internally. Using Terraform, we provisioned all core environments as infrastructure-as-code, ensuring consistent, repeatable deployments from the start. CI/CD flows were initially built in GitLab to keep momentum high.
Once we got the client’s own Azure tenant and GitHub organization ready, we planned and executed a seamless handover. Our team:
- Migrated all repositories and pipelines from GitLab to GitHub Actions, with cleaner, more automated flows for one-click deployments
- Rebuilt infrastructure modules to fit the client’s own cloud governance and naming conventions
- Migrated live data, environments, and workloads with zero disruption to development
- Delivered training and documentation to make sure internal developers could manage the platform going forward
The handover marked a clear shift from relying on borrowed infrastructure to running a scalable Azure setup built on modern DevOps practices.
Benefits: From Blank Slate to Cloud-Ready in Four Months
By the end of the four-month engagement, the client had gone from zero infrastructure to a fully operational cloud-native delivery pipeline, and a team ready to run it.
Here is what they gained:
- The development team began delivering faster and with fewer delays, thanks to automated CI/CD pipelines and consistent environments.
- Developers were able to release features independently, no longer relying on ad hoc support, with GitHub workflows and one-click deployment flows in place.
- Provisioning environments that once took days could now be done in minutes, using Terraform and a modular infrastructure-as-code setup.
- The entire infrastructure, data, and pipelines were successfully migrated to the client’s Azure tenant without disrupting ongoing development.
- The client’s internal team took full ownership of the platform after dedicated training sessions and the handoff of clear, practical documentation.
Build with Confidence on Azure
If your teams need a solid foundation for cloud delivery, we can help you design, deploy, and hand over a fully operational Azure environment.