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In today’s digital-first landscape, organisations must continuously evolve their technology capabilities to meet business demands with speed and precision. With a focus on increasing productivity, reducing human error, and building operational resilience, Australian businesses are increasingly turning to DevOps to remain competitive.
DevOps bridges development and operations, breaking down silos, automating manual processes, and harnessing the cloud to optimise internal platforms for ongoing delivery. For mature DevOps organisations, this shift is both technical and cultural, bringing together people, practices, and systems to achieve high performance. Key benefits include:
- More frequent code deployments
- Faster lead time from commit to deploy
- Faster time to recover from incidents
- Lower change failure rate.
The result? Improved software quality, enhanced customer experiences, and greater shareholder value—while reducing the risk of competitive displacement.
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Realise the value of innovation - DevOps use cases
Explore how Avocado’s expertise addresses your business needs through these top use cases:
Agile Software Delivery
Operationalise Agile development practices to adapt to changing requirements and customer feedback. While traditional engineering often follows a rigid, waterfall approach with extensive upfront planning, modern engineering leverages Agile methodologies, prioritising iterative development, cross-functional collaboration, and flexibility.
Cloud-Native Application Delivery
Build and deliver cloud-native applications across hybrid and multicloud environments. Cloud-native delivery is designed specifically for cloud ecosystems, using containerisation, microservices, and serverless functions to achieve scalability, resiliency, and resource efficiency. It enables continuous delivery through automated deployments and a modular approach to scale individual components independently.
Mobile Application Delivery
Build, test, and deliver native mobile and mobile web applications by automating the full app development lifecycle, from code integration and testing to deployment and ongoing updates.
Platform Engineering
Provide a self-service, robust DevOps platform to scale your DevOps teams and align with modern engineering practices. Platform engineering builds and manages internal developer platforms, offering self-service tools and infrastructure that accelerate development, automate repetitive tasks, and streamline workflows.
Accelerate Innovation and Empower Your Digital Teams
Drive collaboration, and deliver secure, scalable solutions at speed through DevOps and Platform Engineering
Choose the Right DevOps Platform for your team
Lay the foundation for seamless development and operations.
Uplift to Modern Software Engineering
Embrace Agile practices and iterative development.
Scale Innovation with an Internal Developer Platform
Enable self-service tools and efficient workflows.
Build Scalable and Secure Applications
Leverage platform engineering to ensure resilience and security.
Choose the Right DevOps Platform
As organisations grow, the complexity of managing diverse DevOps tools can hinder efficiency and slow down innovation. Avocado helps you modernise your DevOps toolchain by implementing an integrated platform that aligns development and operations, so your developers can focus on what matters most—creating innovative solutions for your business.
Why Organisations Turn to an Advanced DevOps Platform:
- Unify fragmented toolchains, breaking down silos that limit agility
- Reduce technical debt that slows progress and increases costs
- Meet the demands for modern, cloud-native applications with ease
Benefits for Your DevOps Teams
Empower your DevOps teams with a seamless developer experience that boosts productivity, builds secure applications from the ground up, and supports a resilient, modern architecture. From idea to deployment, drive innovation faster and with greater confidence.
- A streamlined developer experience that improves productivity
- Modernised application architectures for a robust tech foundation
- Enhanced software security built into every phase of development
- Accelerated innovation, from initial idea to deployment
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Shift from Traditional to Modern Software Engineering
In today’s fast-paced environment, traditional software engineering approaches can’t keep up. Avocado supports your transition from rigid, legacy methodologies to agile, collaborative models, addressing the complexities of evolving software systems and the rapid pace of technological change.
Why Organisations Embrace Modern Software Engineering:
- Resolve technical debt and address limitations of legacy systems
- Overcome traditional mindsets and foster a culture of collaboration and innovation
- Equip teams with cloud-native skills and expertise
Benefits for Your Product Teams
Unlock new potential for your product teams with streamlined, high-quality development. Achieve faster time-to-market, boost customer satisfaction through improved reliability, and future-proof your solutions with enhanced scalability and flexibility. Prioritise security at every step with agile development, ensuring compliance is seamlessly integrated.
- Faster time to market, critical in competitive landscapes
- Improved quality and reliability, increasing customer satisfaction
- Enhanced scalability and flexibility to adapt to future needs
- Security-first agile development, with compliance built-in
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Build a Minimum Viable Internal Developer Platform (IDP)
Managing developer workflows across teams can be challenging without the right tools. Avocado helps you establish a foundational Internal Developer Platform, equipping your developers with a comprehensive toolkit that simplifies processes and encourages self-service, enabling them to create value faster.
Why Organisations Seek to Adopt an IDP:
- Centralised integration of engineering systems, application platforms, and templates
- Reduced developer toil, enhanced productivity, and security throughout the development lifecycle
Benefits for Your Platform and Product Teams
As development environments grow more complex, an Internal Developer Platform becomes a cornerstone for efficient and secure software delivery. By centralising tools, templates, and engineering systems, an IDP not only streamlines workflows but also creates a unified approach that reduces errors and supports continuous improvement. This foundation helps developers focus on innovation rather than repetitive tasks.
- Self-service options for developers that minimise cognitive load
- Standardisation by design, creating a scalable and maintainable setup
- Support for “golden paths”—standardised, optimal routes for application building and deployment
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Start Your Platform Engineering Journey with Avocado
For organisations, regardless of size, the goal remains the same: deliver innovations quickly and securely. However, scaling these efforts requires strong software governance, quality control, and security. Platform engineering is your pathway to an ideal state where developers are empowered to focus on innovation rather than operational overhead.
Why Platform Engineering is Key for Modern Organisations
- Gartner highlights platform engineering as a top strategic trend for 2024, with 80% of large engineering organisations projected to establish platform teams by 2026.
- These teams will focus on providing reusable services, components, and tools to streamline workflows and boost innovation.
Platform engineering enables organisations to optimise development workflows and unlock greater agility by establishing streamlined, reusable tools and services. With a focus on scalability, security, and efficiency, it transforms the way teams build and deliver applications, paving the way for innovation and faster results.
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How we help
Avocado provides expert services to support modern full-stack development, enabling your teams to focus on innovation while we handle the complexity.
DevOps and Platform Engineering Team
A diverse team of software engineers with deep expertise across development, testing, security, and operations. Our team brings a unique breadth of tools and processes to start or augment your DevOps initiatives and guide you towards mature platform engineering.
Platform Engineering Strategy
As you establish your internal developer platform, Avocado helps you progress from a small product team to an optimised, self-service development environment that scales efficiently.
Platform Engineering as a Service
A managed service that provides a robust internal developer platform, supporting modern full-stack development. Your product teams can focus on building applications without the overhead of managing infrastructure, security, or tools.
Our Approach to DevOps
Avocado’s dedicated DevOps Practice is built on collaboration and automation, leveraging DevOps principles to develop, integrate, and manage software assets. We empower clients to achieve greater speed and enhanced quality, enabling them to deliver solutions that are fast, safe, and secure.
DevOps as a Service
Our dedicated DevOps Practice brings deep industry expertise across platforms like GitHub, Azure DevOps, Atlassian, and GitLab. We build infrastructure via code for multi-cloud environments such as Azure and AWS, cloud-native development for containerised applications and microservices, and Kubernetes orchestration and deployment.
Agility and Adaptability
Our consultants seamlessly integrate into teams at any DevOps maturity level, uplifting in-house capabilities and teaching self-sufficiency. Avocado’s flexible engagement model establishes greenfield teams or enhances existing delivery and DevOps capabilities, driving value through streamlined deployments, cost savings, and optimised delivery.
The outcome of better software product and successful implementations is enhanced customer experience, greater shareholder value, and mitigating the threat of competitive displacement.
Our DevOp and Delivery Services
While creating efficiencies with cloud and automation make up part of DevOps, highly evolved firms must also consider the interconnectivity of human-centred approaches and a platform model. Avocado has a full-service suite to support your DevOps journey. Our DevOps team collaborate across disciplines including security (DevSecOps), testing (quality assurance), monitoring and change management to enhance your business capabilities.
Automation and Orchestration
Automating repetitive tasks allows your teams to be strategic and innovate faster. Automation and orchestration support DevOps by streamlining and optimising frequently occurring processes and workflows, allowing teams to deploy more quickly. Our teams help you automate workflows and start delivering value to other teams via self-service functionality. Your Devops infrastructure also plays a critical role in your end-product and makes up an important element of your pipeline. Avocado help you select the right tools including repository tools, automation tools, Dev tools to track release management, cloud native tools and containerisation tools. Read more about automation and orchestration and DevOps tools.
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SOAR - Security Orchestration Automation Response
SOAR – Security Orchestration Automation Response is a stack of compatible software programs that enable organisations to gather their data about security threats and respond to security events without human assistance.
Avocado can help orchestrate security workflows with Splunk Security Orchestration and Response.
Allowing you to become more proactive in your security setup with seamless integration of an end-to-end platform.
Monitoring and Observability
Monitoring is an essential component of Devops as it is the primary way to get feedback on a release and feeds into the priorities of the next release. Organisations who take steps to introduce a platform model within their organisation will accelerate their DevOps journey.
A platform model includes monitoring and observability of internal platforms by engineers – enabling developers to access authentication, container orchestration, and service-to-service authentication, tracing and observability, and logging request services via self-service.
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Software Testing
Avocado is an expert across all facets of test planning, execution, and automation. Our governance ensures smooth delivery that aligns with real-world needs.
We offer full scope testing services including Quality Assurance (QA), test automation and continuous testing.
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Project Delivery and Governance
Today, the product lifecycle starts with delivery – with a focus on culture, communication, good governance, ability to deliver quickly and having the right infrastructure and technical expertise to turn your ideas into reality.
Our project and governance team are a critical guide throughout the lifecycle.
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Security/ DevSecOps
Security is a critical element in the evolution of DevOps and must be considered at the beginning of the software development lifecycle. Avocado helps you ensure good security practices and better security outcomes are enabled in your DevOps practices.
Find out more about Avocado’s security practice/DevSecOps.
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Change Management
Avocado provides end-to-end change consulting to deliver organisational, technology, and cultural change. Our change management services include change management strategies, change readiness assessments, communication and training plans, redesigning business and technical processes and business model alignment.
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Optimise your IT processes
Avocado consultants have years of experience helping clients optimise their IT processes through applying DevOps principles, agile coaching, performance management, monitoring and data intelligence. To talk to one of our Solution Managers about how DevOps can help you deliver with certainty.
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