DevOps

Marlabs recognizes the need for speed, quality, and collaboration across the software development lifecycle. Our DevOps solutions integrate people, processes, and technology to deliver high performing software. We champion continuous integration, continuous delivery, automated testing, and robust monitoring. In doing so, we empower enterprises to release high-quality software faster, to enhance operational efficiency, and to drive impactful digital transformation.

With tools like Azure DevOps, Selenium, and SonarQube, we empower organizations with on-demand deployments, reducing errors and fostering a culture of agility and innovation along the way.

What Is DevOps?

DevOps is a cultural philosophy, a set of practices, and a collection of tools that integrate and automate the processes between software development and IT operations teams. Marlabs’ DevOps principles aim to orchestrate people, processes, and platforms to deliver faster, safer, and more reliable software while continuously adapting to evolving business needs.
Marlabs' DevOps capabilities are built around several key pillars:
Agile DevOps Pipelines
These are tailored per tech stack and powered by tools like Azure DevOps, Jenkins, and Octopus, enabling end-to-end DevSecOps automation
Maturity-Oriented Transformation
The DevOps track includes gap assessments, short-term quick wins, and long-term strategies to elevate operational maturity and support 24/7 delivery models.
Framework-Driven Execution
Marlabs leverages Artificial Intelligence to elevate Quality Engineering to drive better outcomes. We leverage AI to analyze requirements and behavior patterns to generate more effective and comprehensive test cases.  

Marlabs leverages proprietary frameworks and accelerators to ensure consistency, scalability, and rapid onboarding across projects.
Integrated Quality Engineering
DevOps is tightly coupled with QE practices, including performance engineering, test automation, and continuous testing, ensuring that quality is embedded from the start.
You may also have encountered the philosophy of DevSecOps, which simply means integrating security practices and tools directly into every stage of your DevOps pipeline: from initial code creation to deployment and operations. Instead of security being a final check, it becomes a continuous, shared responsibility among development, security, and operations teams. It aims to "shift left" in order to find and fix vulnerabilities early and automatically, ultimately delivering secure software faster.

How does Marlabs’ DevOps-as-a-Service work?

Assessment & Maturity Roadmaps

Marlabs offers a structured DevOps maturity assessment framework that evaluates people, processes, tools, and technologies to define a transformation roadmap.

DevSecOps Integration

Security is embedded throughout the DevOps lifecycle via:
  • Static and dynamic application security testing (SAST/DAST)
  • Security gateways in CI/CD
  • Governance dashboards with KPIs and metrics for visibility and compliance

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) & Operations

Operational excellence is supported through:
  • Service-level objectives (SLOs) and error budgets
  • Monitoring, alerting, and incident management
  • ITSM/ITOM automation for streamlined operations

DevOps Foundations and Automation

Marlabs provides end-to-end DevOps pipeline orchestration using tools like GitLab, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, and Octopus. This includes:
  • CI/CD Automation: Continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines tailored per tech stack
  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Environment Provisioning: Automated setup and teardown of environments to support agile delivery
  • Push-button Deployments: On-demand, validated deployments with integrated testing and rollback mechanisms

DevOps-as-a-Service (DaaS)

An external proposal also highlighted Marlabs’ ability to deliver DevOps as a managed service, offering:
  • Cloud infrastructure management
  • 24/7 monitoring
  • Kubernetes migration
  • Flexible, cost-effective DevOps teams tailored to client needs

What are the core elements of a DevOps transformation?

A DevOps transformation is fundamentally about integrating people, processes, and technology to deliver software faster, more reliably, and securely. While the journey is unique for every organization, several core elements consistently underpin a successful transformation:
Culture & Collaboration:
It involves breaking down traditional silos between development, operations, QA, and security teams. The aim is to foster a culture of shared responsibility, trust, empathy, transparency, and a "blameless" approach to incidents. Collaboration becomes the default, replacing hand-offs and finger-pointing.
Automation:
At the heart of DevOps is the relentless pursuit of automation. This includes automated builds, testing, infrastructure provisioning (including "infrastructure-as-code"), configuration management, and deployment.  
Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery/Deployment (CI/CD):
Continuous Integration - Developers frequently merge their code changes into a central repository, where automated builds and tests are run to detect and fix integration issues early.

Continuous Delivery - Once code is integrated and tested, it's continuously prepared and made ready for release to production.
Measurement & Feedback Loops:
Core to DevOps is establishing clear metrics to track progress. Crucially, feedback loops are established at every stage — from production monitoring to customer insights — to rapidly inform development and operations. This enables continuous learning and improvement.
Security Integration (DevSecOps):
Security is not an afterthought, but it's woven into every stage of the DevOps pipeline. This involves integrating security practices, automated security testing, and security awareness from the initial design and coding phases through to deployment and operations, ensuring security through design.

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