DevOps consulting services
Fast and safe IT delivery.
DevOps is a set of practices that brings software development and IT operations together to shorten the delivery cycle and release high-quality software continuously. It combines culture, process and automation, so code moves from commit to production quickly, consistently and with less manual effort.
Avocado Consulting helps Australian enterprises and government agencies release software faster and more safely. We assess your delivery maturity, then build the CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation and team practices that move you from occasional, risky releases to frequent, reliable ones.
You'll recognise the situation
Technology leaders whose releases are slow, manual or prone to failure.
Teams moving from traditional handoffs between development, testing and operations to one integrated team.
Organisations setting up a new product or platform team that needs DevOps practices from day one.
Teams that have adopted DevOps tools but aren't seeing faster or safer releases.
Five ways we speed up delivery
Delivery and DevOps Maturity Assessment
A fixed-price assessment of your capability across five drivers: culture and process, practices, collaboration, measurement and technology. You get current maturity, a target state and a prioritised roadmap.
CI/CD pipeline design and implementation
Pipelines that integrate, test and deploy code automatically, with test automation built in, so every change follows the same reliable path to production.
Infrastructure automation
We automate how cloud and on-premise infrastructure is provisioned and configured, so environments are consistent and repeatable.
Platform engineering
Internal platforms that give developers self-service access to environments, pipelines, logging and observability without raising a ticket, often through a developer portal such as Backstage.
DevOps as a Service and capability uplift
We stand up DevOps for greenfield teams, or run a program to uplift your existing model, coaching your people so your team becomes self-sufficient.
We define infrastructure as code, so servers, networks and cloud services are created from version-controlled templates rather than by hand. Configuration management keeps every environment in the same known state, and CI/CD pipelines deploy to those environments automatically.
The result is fewer environment-related defects, faster recovery, and a full audit trail of every change. Tools include Terraform or OpenTofu, Bicep, Ansible, GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps. As a Red Hat partner, we also implement Ansible Automation Platform.
Assess, benchmark, implement
Assess delivery priorities
We clarify what matters most to your business: speed, stability, cost or risk.
Set current and target maturity
We benchmark you across the five drivers and agree the level that fits your organisation.
Build the roadmap and implement
We sequence the changes and deliver them, using configurable service modules for culture, practices, collaboration, measurement and technology.
Most teams move through three stages: traditional handoffs between separate teams; agile sprints with a separate operations stage; and one integrated team with continuous integration, release and monitoring.
Technology-independent by design
Our approach is technology-independent. We work with the tools you have, or help you choose the right ones.
How mature is your IT delivery?
Take the 5-minute Delivery and DevOps Assessment for an indication of where you stand.
What you walk away with
DevOps makes delivery fast and safe. DevSecOps makes it fast, safe and secure. DevOps speeds up how software is built and released; DevSecOps builds security into that same pipeline, so speed doesn't come at the cost of risk. Read more about our DevSecOps consulting services.
Proven delivery
Deployment reliability uplift for an Azure data team
A national member-based professional organisation's data engineering team had Azure deployments that led to quality issues after release and time-consuming remediation. Avocado implemented CI/CD pipelines and best-practice deployment patterns for the team's Azure services, with early issue detection and an automated rollback strategy.
- More reliable, better-performing deployments.
- Fewer quality issues after release.
- Simpler, faster introduction of new components.
- Less time and effort spent on post-deployment remediation.
Four ways to engage
Every engagement includes a Client Success Manager and a Practice Manager at no extra cost.
Common questions
What is a DevOps maturity assessment?
It is a structured review of how your organisation delivers software, measured across culture, practices, collaboration, measurement and technology. Avocado's assessment is fixed price and ends with a target state and a roadmap.
What is DevOps as a Service?
It means Avocado provides the people, practices and tooling to run DevOps for a team, rather than you building the capability from scratch. It suits new teams that need to deliver quickly.
Do we have to change our tools?
No. Our approach is technology-independent. We optimise the tools you already use and only recommend changes where they clearly improve delivery.
Will our team be able to run it without you?
Yes. Our consultants coach your team as they work, so you become self-sufficient.
Do you work in AWS and Azure?
Yes. We automate infrastructure and pipelines across AWS, Microsoft Azure and on-premise environments.
Can you set up or improve Azure DevOps pipelines?
Yes. We design, build and optimise pipelines in Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions, including migrations between the two, with automated testing and infrastructure as code built in.
Where teams go next
Software development
Custom platforms, integration and modernisation.DevSecOps
Security built into your delivery pipeline.Quality Engineering
Testing, test automation and QA strategy.Full Stack Observability
See every layer in one platform.Project Delivery
Project managers, analysts and delivery governance.Change Management
Help your people adopt new systems and tools.Ready to release with confidence?
Talk to a DevOps lead about where your delivery is today and the fastest safe path to improve it.