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AUDevOps consulting from Sydney

Secure offshore teams, faster releases and a smaller cloud bill.

DevOpsPlant is a DevOps and AWS consultancy in Sydney for startups and growing companies. We build the fix in your AWS or Azure accounts, then hand it to your team.

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AWS & AzureData stays in AustraliaYour team owns the result
Your platformexample · live status
Offshore desktops24 staff signed in · data held in SydneyCompliantLast releaseShipped 4 minutes ago · rollback readyHealthyTest environmentRuns 08:00 to 18:00 on weekdays onlySaving
A typical day
  • Release 2.14.3 in productioncommit to live in 4 min
  • 24 offshore staff signed inManila · desktops in Sydney
  • Test environments switched onoffice hours start
0files on offshore devices
4 mincommit to production
−70%test-env hours billed

Offshore compliance

Offshore staff. Australian data.

Your offshore team needs your systems, but your clients, contracts or auditors say the data can’t leave Australia. A laptop and a VPN can’t prove that it hasn’t.

  • Staff work on virtual desktops hosted in Sydney. Each one is built fresh at sign-in and wiped at sign-out.
  • Copying out, downloads, USB drives, printing and screenshots are blocked by policy.
  • Every control is defined in code and sign-in uses your identity provider, so audit evidence is generated, not collected.

ResultAdd or remove a seat in minutes, with nothing shipped overseas.

Windows 365 · Azure Virtual Desktop · Amazon WorkSpaces

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session activeap-southeast-2 · Sydney
Offshore staffany device, any country
screen
only
Hosted in AustraliaVirtual desktopnew at sign-in
wiped at sign-out
private
network
Your systemsapps, files, data

Blocked by policy

  • Copy out
  • Download
  • USB
  • Print
  • Screenshot
0files on the staff device
AUwhere data is stored
Minutesto add or revoke a seat

Faster deployments

Releases in minutes, not days.

Releases queue behind manual steps and a pipeline nobody trusts. Your team ships less often, and every release carries more risk.

  • Every change is built, tested and scanned automatically.
  • Infrastructure is defined as code, so every environment matches production.
  • New versions go out alongside the old one, and rolling back takes one step.

ResultA release becomes a routine part of the day.

GitHub Actions · Terraform · ECS · EKS · Argo CD

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RELEASE PIPELINE
$ git push origin main▸ pipeline started✓ build complete            42s✓ tests passed              318/318✓ security scan clean▸ deploying blue/green…✓ new version healthy, shifting traffic✓ release live · rollback ready# no downtime, no weekend work
example pipeline run

Lower costs

Stop paying for idle servers.

The cloud bill grows faster than the business, and nobody can say which team, product or environment is responsible for it.

  • Every resource is tagged to a team and product, so each cost has an owner.
  • Oversized servers are resized, and test environments switch off outside office hours.
  • Steady workloads move to discounted long-term pricing.

ResultA smaller bill, and a monthly report your finance team can read.

Cost Explorer · Savings Plans · Azure Cost Management

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Test environment · one week
running (billed)switched off
50billed hours a week
of 168hours in a week
−70%running cost for this environment

AI governance

AI writes code faster than you can test it.

Your developers ship features with AI assistants and agents, but reviews and tests haven’t sped up to match. Bugs that look like working code slip through to production. We build with AI every day, and we govern it.

  • Every pull request proves itself: tests on the changed lines, security and dependency checks, and no secrets.
  • A human still approves, and sensitive code like payments and infrastructure needs a named reviewer.
  • Clear rules for AI tools: which are approved, what never goes in a prompt, and what coding agents may touch.

ResultYour team keeps the AI speed, and fewer bugs reach production.

GitHub Copilot · Claude Code · Cursor · CodeQL · Semgrep · Feature flags

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Pull request #482 · written with AI6 checks
  • Tests pass212 of 212
  • Changed lines covered by tests91%, minimum 80%
  • Security scanNo new findings
  • New dependency“json-sanitize-fast” doesn’t exist on npm
  • No secrets in the diff14 files scanned
  • Touches src/payments/Needs a second human reviewer
Merge blocked: fix 1 check, then a human approves

Go deeper.

Each problem has a technical page written for the people who will build and run it: architecture, trade-offs, code and costs.

For IT, security & risk leads

Sovereign desktops for offshore teams

  • Architecture and platform choice
  • Every control and where it’s enforced
  • Latency, cost and audit evidence
12 min readRead →For engineering leads

From commit to production in minutes

  • The reference pipeline, stage by stage
  • Workflow and Terraform examples
  • Release strategies and DORA metrics
10 min readRead →For CTOs & finance

A cloud bill that goes down and stays down

  • Savings estimator
  • The levers, in the order we pull them
  • Tagging, commitments and reporting
9 min readRead →For CTOs & engineering leads

Shipping AI-written code without shipping its bugs

  • The checks every pull request must pass
  • Review rules and limits for coding agents
  • Measuring bugs that reach production
8 min readRead →

More services: AWS consulting · Terraform consulting · AWS security · PCI DSS readiness

One problem at a time.

Start with the problem that costs you most. Everything we build lands in your repositories as code, so your team owns the result.

  1. Assess

    A short, fixed-scope review of the one problem, with a written plan and a price.

  2. Build

    We build the fix in your own AWS or Azure accounts, as code your team can review.

  3. Hand over

    Documentation and runbooks for your team, with ongoing support only if you want it.

You work directly with Anwar Alawad, who has run DevOps and cloud infrastructure for fintech, agtech and aviation loyalty teams since 2015. About DevOpsPlant →

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The problem