Manual Infrastructure Is a Risk,
Not Just a Slow Process.
Provisioning by hand means environments drift, releases break in production, and nobody can reproduce exactly what’s running where. We implement Infrastructure as Code and Kubernetes automation across AWS, Azure, and GCP so your infrastructure is reproducible, version-controlled, and safe to change — without a support call every time something needs to scale.
No retainers · NDA before any technical discussion · 30-minute call, no pitch deck
The problem with manual infrastructure isn’t speed. It’s consistency.
Most teams who manage infrastructure manually aren’t doing it because they haven’t heard of Terraform. They’re doing it because the infrastructure grew incrementally, decisions were made in the console one at a time, and nobody has a complete picture of what was done or why. Adding automation on top of that mess is harder than starting from a clean state.
But leaving it as-is compounds the problem. Every manual change is a potential drift. Every undocumented configuration is a risk. Every environment that isn’t reproducible from code is an incident waiting to happen — and a cost centre that’s hard to audit or optimise.
From the SaaS platform infrastructure engagement
Six areas, across any cloud environment
Terraform IaC and EKS Migration for a Global SaaS Platform
A leading SaaS provider was managing infrastructure through a mix of manual console changes and undocumented scripts. Environments drifted, provisioning a new environment took the best part of a week, and deployments during peak traffic were a source of anxiety rather than routine process. We implemented Terraform-based IaC, migrated workloads to EKS, and integrated infrastructure changes into their existing CI/CD pipeline. Deployments moved from hours-long coordinated events to automated pipeline runs with rollback built in. Cloud spend dropped 25% within 90 days from right-sizing and eliminating idle resources.
What the client said
Stonetusker completely changed how we manage infrastructure. Deployments that once took hours now happen in minutes — with full visibility, reliability, and control.
Chief Technology Officer Global SaaS Company
What happens when we start
We map what you’re running and how it got that way
Before anything is touched, we audit your current infrastructure: what’s running, what it costs, what’s been configured manually and never documented, and where the real risks are. We sign an NDA before this starts. Your architecture, your accounts, and your configuration stay completely confidential. The audit produces a clear picture of the current state and where IaC would have the most impact first.
We design an IaC and automation architecture your team reviews before we build it
The Terraform module structure, Kubernetes design, CI/CD integration, and cost monitoring setup are all planned and documented before any implementation starts. Your engineers review the design, raise concerns, and sign off. Nothing is a surprise at handover because the team has been part of the design from the beginning.
We implement alongside your team and explain every decision
IaC modules, Kubernetes cluster configuration, pipeline integration, security policy enforcement, and cost monitoring are all built with your engineers involved. We explain why choices were made, not just what was built. By the time we hand over, your team can extend and maintain the infrastructure without calling us.
We stay alongside for the first live release cycle and leave complete runbooks
A live period where your team operates the new infrastructure with us available for questions and to fix anything that surfaces. Runbooks covering common failure modes, scaling events, rollback procedures, and cost alert thresholds are all delivered before we step back. Post-engagement support is available without a retainer if needed.
Start with one environment.
Prove the model before expanding it.
A 2 to 3 week paid pilot that produces working IaC for a real part of your infrastructure — not a demo environment, not a reference architecture. Your actual setup, in version control, provisionable in a single pipeline run.
Pilot guarantee
If the pilot doesn’t produce working IaC for your actual infrastructure, you don’t pay for the full engagement.
The pilot produces real, provisionable infrastructure code for your actual environment — not a reference architecture on a sandbox account. If it doesn’t deliver that, you don’t pay for the next phase. This is in the agreement before work starts.
Questions about IaC and cloud infrastructure automation
No. Existing infrastructure can be imported into Terraform state so it’s managed by IaC without being destroyed and rebuilt. We start with the highest-risk or most frequently changed parts of your infrastructure and migrate incrementally. The pilot typically covers one environment — staging or a specific service — so the approach is proven before it touches production. Teams with years of manual infrastructure in place do this regularly. It requires care and good documentation of what exists, which is part of what the audit at the start of the engagement produces.
IaC handles multi-cloud well — both AWS and Azure are supported by Terraform with mature provider libraries. The complexity comes from managing state correctly across accounts and providers, which is something we design for from the start rather than retrofitting. The key is a consistent module structure and remote state configuration so both environments are managed from the same codebase without conflicts. We’ve built multi-cloud infrastructure for teams with more complex setups than AWS and Azure.
Only if you don’t build cost controls alongside the automation, which is a mistake we don’t make. IaC pipelines can enforce approved instance types, require tagging for cost attribution, and alert on spend thresholds before a bill arrives. Environments that are easy to provision are also easy to tear down — which is usually the bigger saving. Most teams running manual infrastructure have forgotten resources in forgotten environments that nobody is sure it’s safe to delete. IaC makes the full inventory visible and destroyable cleanly.
Your infrastructure should be
provisionable, not memorable.
30 minutes. No pitch deck. We arrive having reviewed your public infrastructure footprint and we’ll tell you exactly what we’d automate first and what the pilot would cover.
No retainers · No lock-in · NDA signed before we discuss your architecture
30-minute call · No pitch deck · We come prepared for your specific cloud environment
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