Accelerate your journey towards cloud native platforms & app modernisation  

We are offering new customers the opportunity to attend a half-day workshop with some of our cloud native specialists. If the below profile sounds like your organisation, get in touch today:

• Azure is your preferred strategic public cloud platform for hosting technology services. 

• Have strong digital and online ambitions and fundamentally recognise that cloud and cloud native technologies are a key enabler in realising those ambitions. 

• Have an expectation that platform automation and infrastructure as code is produced with quality to maximise platform stability, optimise operational efficiency and scalability. 

• Are driven to be an agile business and recognises the fundamental role that agile infrastructure plays alongside agile development processes. 

Our teams have an outstanding track record of building “enterprise grade” Azure solutions across a variety of sectors (including finance, insurance, retail, health, and construction) and will leverage this “real world” experience to help you to identify and navigate potential roadblocks standing in the way of your cloud native goals. 

Workshop themes

BlakYaks consultants will tailor each workshop to the specific needs of your organisation (pre-workshop questionnaire to be completed). 

THEME 1 - Azure DevSecOps/GitOps and IaC: Bootstrapping accelerator 

Getting your DevSecOps and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) approach right is critical for any successful cloud native transition if you are operating at any genuine scale.  

During this discovery session, we will explore your current approach, goals, and challenges including: 

• Introductions, scene setting, workshop objectives

• Understanding your current Azure cloud environment, cloud-native goals, initiatives, and projects 

• Review of your DevSecOps implementation (gaining and understanding of your processes, tools, standards, team adoption and any gaps you feel you currently have) 

• Infrastructure as Code – discussing your strategy, tools, methods, standards, policies, controls, governance and your strategic goals 

• Discovery workshop wrap-up 

AREA 2 - Azure Platforms with Code: Get ready for Azure services at scale 

Building and Managing Azure platforms with Code is critical for organisations wanting to enhance security posture, optimise costs and reduce TOIL.  

During this discovery session we will explore your current approach, goals, and challenges including: 

• Introductions, scene setting, workshop objectives

• Understanding your current Azure cloud environment and your cloud-native goals, initiatives, projects 

• Review your current approach to building and operating Azure platforms (gaining and understanding of your processes, tools, standards, team adoption and any gaps you feel you currently have) 

• Infrastructure as Code – discussing your strategy, tools, methods, standards, policies, controls, governance and your strategic goals 

• Discovery workshop wrap-up 

AREA 3 - Azure-hosted enterprise containers with AKS: Preparing for the transition to a native Serverless 

Modernising your application estate and embracing serverless technologies (Azure containers, Kubernetes, AKS/ARO) is core to delivering new digital services.      

During this discovery session we will explore your current approach, goals, and challenges including: 

• Introductions, scene setting, workshop objectives

• Understanding of your current Azure serverless landscape and your cloud-native goals, initiatives, and projects

• Review your container platform deployment, if any (gaining and understanding of your processes, tools, standards, team adoption and any gaps you feel you currently have)

• Infrastructure as Code – discussing your strategy, tools, methods, standards, policies, controls, governance and your strategic goals

• Discovery workshop wrap-up 

Following any of the workshops BlakYaks will produce a high-level report with key findings, observations and recommendations then book a 1-hour follow-up meeting to walk through the report and agree on any priorities and next steps if desired. 

Get in touch

At BlakYaks, we pride ourselves on being at the forefront of cloud technology, and we are passionate about helping our clients leverage the power of the cloud-native to transform their businesses.  

Get in touch and schedule a session to uncover the benefits of this workshop.