DevOps for Startups That Can't Afford a Platform Team

CI/CD. Kubernetes. Terraform. Monitoring. The production infrastructure you need without the platform team headcount.

Most startups don't need a full-time DevOps engineer until Series A. They do need proper CI/CD from week one, production infrastructure that doesn't require a DevOps engineer to operate, and monitoring that catches issues before users report them. We set up the DevOps foundation that works for a 5-engineer team today and a 50-engineer team in eighteen months.

Set up once. Runs without you. Scales when you do.

The DevOps Mistakes That Cost Startups Months

No CI/CD until the team is too big to change: retrofitting a proper pipeline onto a working product is a multi-month distraction. Manual deployments: every manual deploy is an incident waiting to happen. No monitoring until after the first production incident: by then you are debugging blind.

At Valletta Software, we focus on two things:

CI/CD set up in week one: GitHub Actions from lint to prod deploy with staging environment and smoke tests - not retrofitted after the first production incident.

Production infrastructure without the platform team: Kubernetes Terraform Prometheus Grafana - set up once, runs without a dedicated DevOps engineer to operate it.

What We Set Up

Specific infrastructure deliverables - not DevOps consulting.

We set up the DevOps foundation that works for a 5-engineer team today and a 50-engineer team in eighteen months.

CI/CD Pipeline - GitHub Actions from lint to prod deploy with environment promotion and smoke tests

Kubernetes Setup - managed cluster HPA RBAC network policies Helm charts production checklist

Terraform Infrastructure - remote state module structure workspace isolation drift detection CI plan

Monitoring Stack - Prometheus Grafana Alertmanager four golden signals per-service dashboards

Secrets Management - External Secrets Operator vault integration rotation no credentials in source control

DevOps Audit - review existing infrastructure identify gaps prioritize fixes - Valletta.Rescue for DevOps

You stay in control. We handle hiring, contracts, and HR. You direct the work.

EU-incorporated in Malta - NDA on day one, full GDPR compliance. Trusted by startups and enterprise teams across 12+ industries.

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Generate Terraform modules and Helm charts with AI - reviewed and deployed same day

Analyze monitoring alerts and suggest root cause with AI - before the incident escalates

Auto-generate runbooks from alert definitions - on-call engineers know what to do

AI-assisted Dockerfile and GitHub Actions review - catch anti-patterns before they reach prod

Valletta.AIOps - AI-Powered DevOps Engineering

Infrastructure problems that used to take hours to debug now take minutes.

Our DevOps engineers use AI tooling to move faster on infrastructure work - Terraform generation, runbook creation, alert analysis - without cutting corners on reliability.

DevOps set up right from week one - CI/CD Kubernetes Terraform and monitoring that runs without a platform team.

Let's keep it simple.

Our engineers have configured CI/CD, Kubernetes, Terraform, and monitoring stacks for startups - production-grade infrastructure that runs without a platform team.

How we work