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Infrastructure Package for SMBs

Production-grade cloud and on-prem infrastructure, sized for growing companies

~40%
Infra cost reduction
Days to minutes
Deploy cycle
2h / 1h
Incident response SLA
2 weeks
Onboarding

The problem

Small and medium businesses are caught between two bad options. Over-investing in cloud complexity - paying for managed services and abstraction layers that solve problems they don't have yet - or under-investing, running critical workloads on shared hosting with no observability, manual deployments, and no staging environment. The tools to do it right (Kubernetes, Prometheus, Loki, automated CI/CD, proper backup strategies) exist and are open-source, but require 2-3 years of DevOps experience to set up correctly and maintain. Most SMBs don't have that in-house and can't justify a full-time hire for it.

Our approach

We offer two tiers: Starter (cloud-hosted, fully managed) and Scale (hybrid on-prem + cloud, or full BYOD). Both include containerized workload hosting on Kubernetes, automated CI/CD via GitHub Actions with deploy-to-k8s, HTTPS termination and domain management, structured logging (Loki), metrics (Prometheus + Grafana), uptime alerting (Slack or PagerDuty), automated daily backups, and a staging environment. The Scale tier adds optional on-premises node integration, AI inference serving for local LLM and vision models, VPN access control and network segmentation, and database clustering with high availability. Monthly retainer includes a defined incident response SLA. We handle the initial setup (2-week onboarding sprint), ongoing maintenance, and infrastructure reviews quarterly.

Outcome

Deployed for 3 active clients across Starter and Scale tiers. Average infrastructure cost reduction of 40% versus equivalent managed cloud setups, with improved observability (clients gain visibility they previously had none of) and deployment cycle reduction from days to minutes.

Deliverables

  • Kubernetes cluster setup (cloud or hybrid)
  • CI/CD pipeline: GitHub Actions to k8s (all current services)
  • Observability stack: Loki + Prometheus + Grafana dashboards
  • HTTPS, domain management, SSL automation
  • Staging + production environment setup
  • Automated daily backup configuration
  • Incident response playbook and SLA agreement
  • Scale tier: on-prem node setup, VPN, AI inference server, DB clustering

Timeline

2 weeks onboarding, then ongoing

Tech stack

KubernetesDockerGitHub ActionsHelmPrometheusGrafanaLokinginxCert-managerPostgreSQL

Tags

KubernetesDevOpsCI/CDGrafanaPrometheusDockerLokiGitHub ActionsSMB

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