DevOps as a Service
We help development teams with infrastructure and operations challenges
Together we optimise your web application
Modern applications often consist of complex application environments with various services that must interact seamlessly to ensure optimal operation. With our expertise in cloud infrastructure, NixOS, deployments and the hosting of entire system landscapes, we understand the challenges that web applications face every day. We promise reliable application operation with our DevOps-as-a-Service.
Customised DevOps toolchain: your optimal CI/CD pipeline
In today's business environment, speed of development and continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) is critical. A key component of the Flying Circus service is the implementation of CD/CI pipelines with the tool stack required by Dev and Ops. These automated pipelines enable seamless integration of code changes, automated testing and continuous delivery of software in different environments. By automating these processes, errors are recognised and rectified at an early stage and the overall quality of the software is improved.
The collaboration between DEV and OPS
Your developers take care of features and releases – we take care of stable operation. With our DevOps-as-a-Service services, Flying Circus automatically brings new releases into staging and production environments, including monitoring, security and scalability. This ensures that the development and operation of your application run smoothly – and you gain time for what really matters: further developing your application.
Björn Langer
Let's talk about your project!
As your first technical contact, I am committed to understanding your individual requirements and developing tailor-made approaches for the successful operation of your application. Our exchange also enables us to determine an initial price indication for your individual project. I look forward to talking to you!
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Operations and Hosting
Our Application Operations service provides you with everything you need to run your applications. We take care of the provisioning and management of your infrastructure, services and servers on our stable and secure NixOS cloud platform.
What we do for you:
- Infrastructure management: We take care of everything involved in setting up and maintaining your servers and infrastructure on our cloud platform.
- Service operation: We regularly manage, update and optimise your services to ensure they run smoothly at all times.
- Performance optimisation & system monitoring: We continuously monitor your systems to ensure maximum performance for your application.
- More than just hosting: In addition to our services, you also benefit from many other services such as our AI solutions!
You can find out more about hosting in our data centres here.
Scaling & security
With the Flying Circus, you can easily scale to meet the growing demands of your business. We offer scalable infrastructures and resources that allow you to flexibly adapt and expand your applications and services. In addition, we emphasise security by implementing security best practices, conducting regular audits and continuously identifying and remediating security vulnerabilities.
Find out more about horizontal scaling here
Communication between Dev & Ops
The joint, professionally focussed exchange between your developers and us is an integral part of our way of working from the very first minute. A key benefit is the promotion of communication and collaboration between the development and operations teams. By using common tools, processes and metrics, we break down silos and promote a culture of collaboration and transparency. This leads to more effective feedback loops, faster response times to issues and ultimately improved overall efficiency of our collaboration.
Several SLA levels to choose from
Whether Managed or Guided - application operation at Flying Circus offers a flexible selection of well thought-out and optimised service levels for every project size. The first 3 levels guarantee a customised response in one or three hours on weekdays, in the evening or every day of the year - around the clock. In managed projects, the response time can be reduced to 15 minutes. With this finely tuned selection, you receive an optimised and economical service to suit your business requirements.
Planning security for your budget
Our flat-rate SLA calculation levels combine further advantages. You receive precise financial predictability for your budget planning and already know today what the application operation of your project will cost you tomorrow. In this way, we create a clear and transparent basis for co-operation. Our flat-rate calculation approach benefits both sides: you benefit from cost control, financial predictability, quality and efficiency. At the same time, this approach significantly reduces the administrative workload in the areas of recording, calculation and control.
FAQ
While traditional hosting often only provides you with the bare infrastructure ("computing power/data storage/network") and leaves you responsible for updates, security, operation and performance, we see ourselves as an operational partnership and therefore offer "more than just hosting".
Application Operations (AppOps) at Flying Circus is a comprehensive managed cloud service. We act as an extension of your team and take on full operational responsibility for your web applications. For you, this means:
- Relief: You and your team can concentrate on your core business and development, while we take care of the technical details.
- Full service: We take care of deployment pipelines (CI/CD), scaling during peak loads, active incident management and updates.
- Responsibility: We guarantee availability at the application level, not just the underlying infrastructure.
- Security & compliance: We implement comprehensive security measures and ensure compliance with standards.
- 24/7 support: Our team of experts monitors your application around the clock and intervenes immediately if problems arise.
We are not just a provider of computing power or a cloud platform. Rather, we provide you with a complete team for your application in the area of operations as an integral part of your digital value chain.
With Managed Services, we assume full operational responsibility, including proactive monitoring and patch management. We guarantee the availability of the application. With Guided Services, we support your team with our platform and expertise, but you retain primary operational responsibility. This model is often suitable for teams that still want to be deeply involved in the infrastructure.
We are a German company and operate our own hardware in ISO 27001-certified data centres in Germany. There are no hidden data flows to US hyperscalers (such as AWS or Azure). This is particularly essential for customers in the healthcare sector, the public sector or those with high compliance requirements.
The best way to get started is through a personal conversation. In order to operate an application optimally, we need to understand it technically – ideally through direct exchange with the developers and insights into the existing application stack.
NixOS enables us to use declarative system configuration. This means that the state of the server is described in code. This makes systems completely reproducible. If an update causes errors, we can roll back to the previous state within seconds thanks to atomic upgrades. For business customers, this means maximum stability and minimal risk of downtime during updates.
Yes. We specialise in complex migrations ("re-platforming"). We analyse your current stack and transfer it to an efficient, often more cost-effective environment in our private cloud or on dedicated hardware.
Our SLAs are modular. For non-critical systems, we offer support during business hours. For business-critical applications (e.g. high-traffic shops), we offer 24/7 on-call support with guaranteed response times of up to 15 minutes by qualified engineers.
Our model scales modularly from start-ups to large corporations. Our customers include specialised start-ups as well as banks, publishing houses and professional sports clubs. The pricing model consists of two transparent components:
- Infrastructure: Market prices for resources (vCPU, RAM, storage).
- Service (SLA): You choose the level that suits your phase. A start-up can get off to a cost-effective start with a standard SLA, while corporations can book 24/7 options for critical systems. You only pay for the security level that your business case requires.
Absolutely. We eliminate vendor lock-ins and dependencies on US hyperscalers.
- Technology: Our platform is 100% open source with our own documentation at doc.flyingcircus.io
- Data sovereignty: We use our own hardware in our own and German colocation data centres.
- Private stack option: For maximum sovereignty, we can also install and operate our entire cloud stack directly in your data centre on request. This guarantees you full control over assets and data while ensuring professional operation.
