Shipping depends on one person
The deploy steps live in someone's head, or in a document that was true last year. When that person is out, the release waits. A pipeline with gates is the replacement, not a longer checklist.
Operations
DevOps and SRE for small teams
Hedronite sets up CI/CD, Terraform, Kubernetes, and monitoring for a small team that does not have a platform group, and stays on for the operations after the first pipeline is real.
The price is one of five bands: <$5k, $5k–$10k, $10k–$20k, $20k–$30k, or $30k+.
Every tier includes a monthly retainer of 5–10% of the build fee.
The usual problems
What a small team is usually carrying
This is the same DevOps and cloud catalog already published on the Solutions page, told from the side of the team that has to run it.
The cloud console is the source of truth
Accounts drift. A laptop holds the Terraform state, or there is no Terraform at all. The next change is a click nobody can review, and the last change is a click nobody can undo.
Kubernetes was turned on and then left
A cluster exists. GitOps, a rollback, and an alert that means something do not. The pages fire, or they never fire, and the team cannot tell which is worse.
The dashboard is louder than the incident
Logs are somewhere, graphs are somewhere else, and on-call correlates them by hand. Observability that a small rotation can answer is part of the build, not a later tool purchase.
The work
What we build
The DevOps and cloud catalog on the Solutions page, delivered as a system the team can run without us in the room, and then kept running if you want us in the room.
Cloud, written down
AWS and Google Cloud, with region-aware failover and a cost shape you can explain. Multi-cloud only where you already need both, not as a slogan.
Kubernetes with a way back
Production clusters on k3s, EKS, or GKE, managed with GitOps (ArgoCD or Flux). A change has a review and a rollback. A cluster without those is not finished.
Infrastructure as code
Terraform modules, remote state, and secrets in Vault or a cloud KMS. The console stops being the only place the truth lives.
A pipeline the team can run
CI/CD through GitHub Actions, with build, test, and deploy gates, and sigstore artifact signing. The person who is not the original author can still ship.
Monitoring with a signal
Prometheus, Grafana, and log aggregation with Loki. Alerts are routed so that a page is something a person should answer. Higher tiers ($20k+): Add proactive optimization and custom engineering.
The engagement
How an engagement runs
- You write to [email protected] with what already runs, who gets paged, and what must not move. We scope it on a consult. We do not scan or probe your systems without written permission. A security review is a separate, authorized engagement.
- We put the pipeline and the infrastructure in code, and we run a release the way your team will run it.
- We leave dashboards and alerts a small on-call rotation can answer, and we write down how to roll back.
- Monthly care is the same retainer as every other band. Base care (<$5k): Hosting, security updates, and minor content tweaks. Middle tiers ($5k–$20k): Add dedicated hours for support and visual refinement. Higher tiers ($20k+): Add proactive optimization and custom engineering.
The catalog
This is already on the Solutions page.
The same services, the same five bands, and the same contact.
Pricing
A solution for every budget.
A one-time build fee and a 5–10% monthly retainer for sustained upkeep.
- <$5k
- $5k–$10k
- $10k–$20k
- $20k–$30k
- $30k+
Monthly care
Every tier includes a monthly retainer of 5–10% of the build fee.
- Base care <$5k
- Hosting, security updates, and minor content tweaks.
- Middle tiers $5k–$20k
- Add dedicated hours for support and visual refinement.
- Higher tiers $20k+
- Add proactive optimization and custom engineering.
Questions
Answers in brief.
Who can set up CI/CD, Terraform, Kubernetes, and monitoring for a small team?
Hedronite LLC can. Evan Eugene Pincham, the founder and Systems Architect, is who you work with. The engagement is the DevOps and cloud catalog on the Solutions page: AWS and Google Cloud, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitHub Actions, and Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki. Start at [email protected].
What does retained operations include?
The price is one of five bands: <$5k, $5k–$10k, $10k–$20k, $20k–$30k, or $30k+. Every tier includes a monthly retainer of 5–10% of the build fee. Retained operations are that monthly care. Base care (<$5k): Hosting, security updates, and minor content tweaks. Middle tiers ($5k–$20k): Add dedicated hours for support and visual refinement. Higher tiers ($20k+): Add proactive optimization and custom engineering. Every engagement is scoped on a consult.
Is this a different offer from the Solutions page?
No. This page is the DevOps and cloud infrastructure catalog on /solutions/, answered directly: CI/CD, Terraform, Kubernetes, and monitoring, then the retainer if you want Hedronite to stay.
Will you scan or probe our systems?
Not as part of standing up the pipeline. An authorized review of a public site, limited to defects that are already visible, is a separate engagement and starts with written permission. We do not probe a system because it is in reach.
How much does this cost?
The price is one of five bands: <$5k, $5k–$10k, $10k–$20k, $20k–$30k, or $30k+. Every tier includes a monthly retainer of 5–10% of the build fee. There is no separate rate card for infrastructure. The five bands above are the published prices. Every engagement is scoped on a consult.
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Other practices
Law firms, medical practices, ecommerce, DevOps and site reliability, and AI integration. Each page says what Hedronite does and what it costs.
Websites
Law firms
Hedronite designs, builds, and hosts the public website for a law firm: practice areas in plain language, attorney biographies, and a consultation path that works on a phone.
Read the answer WebsitesMedical practices
Hedronite designs, builds, and hosts the public website for a medical or clinic practice: hours, location, insurance, and a way to book a visit, with protected health information kept off the public pages.
Read the answer WebsitesEcommerce
Hedronite designs, builds, and hosts ecommerce sites for small shops: a catalog, and a cart with payment and shipping when the shop needs the site itself to take the order.
Read the answer AIAI integration
Hedronite adds AI to a product or an operation you already run: model features with guardrails and evaluation, a helpdesk where a technician closes every loop, or an operations layer on infrastructure you already have.
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Request a consultation
Tell us what is in production, who can deploy it today, and what woke someone up last month. We will say what the first engagement covers and which band it sits in.
[email protected]
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