Professional Services
Overview DevOps Engineering Managed Cloud Kubernetes & Containers Platform Engineering
Infrastructure
Overview Public Cloud Private Cloud Hybrid Cloud Network & Security
Testimonials News Contact Us FR

Professional Services

For over two decades, Iguana Solutions has been the trusted engineering partner behind some of the most demanding digital platforms in Europe, the United States, and Africa. We combine deep technical expertise with a relentless focus on reliability, security, and operational excellence.

500+
Projects Delivered
25+
Years of Experience
24/7
Operations Support
3
Continents

How We Work

Every engagement at Iguana Solutions begins with a deep understanding of your business objectives, technical landscape, and operational constraints. We do not believe in one-size-fits-all solutions. Instead, our methodology is built around collaborative discovery, iterative architecture, and continuous improvement — a framework refined across more than 500 enterprise projects since the year 2000.

Our teams operate as an extension of yours. Whether we are designing a greenfield Kubernetes platform, migrating legacy workloads to the cloud, or establishing a 24/7 operations center for your critical systems, we bring the same rigor and transparency to every project. We document everything, share knowledge continuously, and ensure that your internal teams are empowered — not dependent — at every stage.

This approach has earned us long-term partnerships with organizations in healthcare, financial services, media, retail, and the public sector — clients who trust us not just for initial delivery, but for the ongoing evolution of their platforms over years and sometimes decades.

01

Discovery

Stakeholder interviews, infrastructure audits, workload profiling, and technical debt assessment. We map your current state and define target outcomes.

02

Architecture

Solution design, technology selection, capacity planning, and security modeling. Detailed blueprints reviewed and validated with your engineering teams.

03

Implementation

Agile delivery in 2-week sprints. Infrastructure as code, automated testing, progressive rollouts, and comprehensive documentation at every milestone.

04

Operations

24/7 monitoring, incident management, continuous optimization, and regular business reviews. We run your platform as if it were our own.

DevOps Engineering

Our DevOps practice helps organizations accelerate software delivery while maintaining the stability and security that enterprise systems demand. We design, build, and operate end-to-end CI/CD pipelines, automate infrastructure provisioning, and embed observability into every layer of your stack — enabling your teams to ship faster with confidence and full visibility into production.

With expertise spanning major cloud providers, container orchestrators, and modern toolchains, our DevOps engineers integrate seamlessly with your existing workflows. We bring battle-tested patterns from hundreds of production environments — from high-traffic media platforms processing millions of requests per second to regulated healthcare and financial systems where compliance is non-negotiable.

DevOps Engineering at IG1

CI/CD Pipeline Design & Automation

We architect continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines tailored to your application architecture, team structure, and compliance requirements. From monolithic applications to distributed microservices, our pipelines are designed for speed, reliability, and auditability. We implement automated quality gates, security scanning at every stage, and progressive deployment strategies that minimize risk.

Jenkins GitLab CI GitHub Actions ArgoCD Tekton Spinnaker

Infrastructure as Code

Every piece of infrastructure we provision is defined in code, version-controlled, peer-reviewed, and reproducible. Our IaC practice eliminates configuration drift, accelerates environment provisioning from days to minutes, and provides a complete audit trail of every change. We structure codebases using modular patterns with reusable components, enabling teams to self-serve while maintaining governance and standardization across environments.

Terraform Ansible Pulumi CloudFormation Crossplane

Monitoring & Observability

True observability goes far beyond dashboards and alerts. We instrument your applications, infrastructure, and network layers to capture the three pillars — metrics, logs, and traces — in a unified platform that enables rapid root-cause analysis and proactive performance management. Our monitoring stacks are designed for scale, handling millions of data points per minute with intelligent alerting that reduces noise and surfaces actionable insights.

Prometheus Grafana ELK Stack Datadog PagerDuty OpenTelemetry

Security & Compliance

Security is embedded at every stage of our delivery pipelines, not bolted on at the end. We implement shift-left security practices including static and dynamic application security testing (SAST/DAST), container image scanning, dependency vulnerability analysis, and secrets management with automated rotation. Our policy-as-code frameworks ensure that compliance requirements — GDPR, HDS, ISO 27001, NIS2 — are enforced programmatically, providing continuous assurance rather than point-in-time audits.

SAST/DAST Vault Trivy OPA Policy-as-Code Secrets Management

GitOps & Release Engineering

GitOps is at the heart of how we manage production environments. By treating Git as the single source of truth for both application and infrastructure configuration, we enable declarative, auditable, and reversible deployments. Our release engineering practice encompasses canary deployments, blue-green strategies, feature flags, and progressive rollouts — giving your teams the ability to release with confidence and roll back instantly if needed.

ArgoCD Flux Feature Flags Canary Deployments Blue-Green

Developer Experience

Great infrastructure is invisible to the developer. We build internal developer platforms that abstract away operational complexity, providing golden paths for common workflows — deploying a new service, provisioning a database, setting up monitoring — while preserving the flexibility that senior engineers need. The result is faster onboarding, higher productivity, and a consistent baseline of quality across all teams and projects.

Developer Portals Golden Paths Self-Service Backstage Platform APIs
Managed Cloud Operations at IG1

Managed Cloud Operations

Running cloud infrastructure at scale requires more than provisioning resources — it demands continuous vigilance, deep expertise, and a relentless focus on cost, performance, and security. Our managed cloud operations practice provides organizations with a dedicated engineering team that monitors, maintains, and optimizes their cloud environments around the clock, backed by strict SLA commitments.

We manage workloads across AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and OVHcloud, as well as private and hybrid environments. Our Network Operations Center (NOC) operates 24/7/365 from our offices in Paris, Miami, and Tunis, providing follow-the-sun coverage and ensuring that incidents are detected, triaged, and resolved before they impact your users. Over 99.9% uptime is not a marketing claim — it is a contractual commitment we have delivered consistently for more than two decades.

Cloud Architecture & Design

Our cloud architects conduct thorough well-architected reviews against the five pillars — operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, and cost optimization. Whether you are planning a lift-and-shift migration, re-platforming legacy applications, or designing a cloud-native greenfield architecture, we produce detailed migration roadmaps, risk assessments, and capacity models that give your leadership team the clarity needed to make informed decisions.

Well-Architected Reviews Migration Planning Multi-Cloud Strategy

24/7 Operations & NOC

Our Network Operations Center provides continuous monitoring and incident response across all time zones. We operate tiered escalation procedures with clearly defined SLAs for acknowledgment, response, and resolution. Every incident triggers a structured post-mortem process that identifies root causes, documents corrective actions, and feeds improvements back into monitoring rules and runbooks. Our clients receive monthly operations reports with detailed metrics on availability, incident trends, and capacity forecasts.

Incident Response Escalation Management SLA Management Post-Mortems

Cost Optimization & FinOps

Cloud costs can spiral quickly without disciplined governance. Our FinOps practice provides continuous cost visibility and optimization across your entire cloud estate. We implement resource rightsizing, reserved instance and savings plan strategies, spot instance architectures, and automated cleanup of unused resources. Cost allocation tagging and chargeback models give business units full transparency into their consumption, while our ongoing optimization reviews typically deliver 25-40% cost reductions within the first quarter.

Rightsizing Reserved Instances Cost Allocation Spot Instances

Backup & Disaster Recovery

We design and implement backup and disaster recovery strategies based on your specific RPO (Recovery Point Objective) and RTO (Recovery Time Objective) requirements. Our solutions include automated backup verification, cross-region and cross-cloud replication, and regular DR drill exercises that validate recovery procedures under realistic conditions. For mission-critical workloads, we architect active-active configurations with automatic failover that delivers near-zero downtime during regional outages.

RPO/RTO Planning Cross-Region Replication DR Drills Active-Active

Performance Tuning

Performance bottlenecks can lurk in application code, database queries, network configuration, or infrastructure sizing. Our performance engineering team uses systematic load testing, profiling, and bottleneck analysis to identify constraints and deliver measurable improvements. We design auto-scaling strategies that respond to real demand patterns, implement CDN and caching layers, and optimize database performance — ensuring your applications perform consistently under peak load conditions.

Load Testing Bottleneck Analysis Auto-Scaling CDN Optimization

Compliance & Governance

Operating in regulated industries demands rigorous governance. We implement comprehensive audit trails, enforce policy guardrails through automation, and manage access controls using least-privilege principles with just-in-time access provisioning. Our compliance frameworks support GDPR, HDS (Health Data Hosting), ISO 27001, NIS2, and DORA requirements, with continuous monitoring that alerts on policy violations and provides evidence collection for audit cycles.

Audit Trails Policy Enforcement Access Management GDPR HDS
High Demand

VMware Migration:
Move to Open Source,
Cut Your Costs

Since Broadcom's acquisition of VMware, enterprise licensing costs have skyrocketed — often multiplied by 3 to 10x. Thousands of organizations are now looking for a way out. We help you migrate from VMware to OpenNebula (Spain) or Proxmox (Austria) — two European open-source alternatives that deliver the same capabilities at a fraction of the cost, with zero vendor lock-in and full alignment with EU digital sovereignty goals.

Our team has been operating virtualization platforms for 25 years and has deep expertise in both the VMware stack and the open-source ecosystem. We handle the entire migration lifecycle — from initial assessment through cutover and post-migration operations — so your workloads keep running without disruption.

Plan Your Migration
60-80%
Licensing Cost Reduction
0
Vendor Lock-In
25+
Years Virtualization Expertise
24/7
Post-Migration Support

The Broadcom Problem

  • Licensing costs multiplied 3x to 10x overnight
  • Perpetual licenses replaced by mandatory subscriptions
  • Product bundles forced on customers — pay for what you don't use
  • Partner ecosystem dismantled — reduced support options

Open-Source Alternatives We Deploy

Mature, battle-tested platforms that replace VMware without compromise.

OpenNebula

European (Spain) · Open Source

European enterprise cloud management platform that unifies private, public, and edge computing. OpenNebula provides a VMware-like experience with vCenter integration, live migration, high availability, and multi-tenancy — all fully open source.

  • Seamless VMware-to-OpenNebula VM migration
  • Multi-hypervisor support (KVM, Firecracker, LXC)
  • Native Kubernetes integration
  • Edge computing and hybrid cloud orchestration

Proxmox VE

European (Austria) · Open Source

European open-source virtualization platform combining KVM hypervisor and LXC containers with a powerful web-based management interface. Proxmox is ideal for organizations seeking a straightforward, cost-effective VMware replacement.

  • Built-in VMware import tool for VMDK/OVA conversion
  • Live migration, HA clustering, Ceph storage
  • Software-defined networking and firewalling
  • Integrated backup with Proxmox Backup Server

Our Migration Methodology

A structured 5-phase approach that minimizes risk and ensures zero downtime for critical workloads.

1

Discovery & Audit

Full inventory of your VMware environment: VMs, storage, networking, dependencies, licensing costs, and performance baselines.

2

Platform Selection

OpenNebula vs. Proxmox recommendation based on your scale, requirements, team skills, and long-term roadmap. TCO comparison included.

3

Build & Test

Deploy target platform, configure networking/storage, migrate pilot workloads, validate performance and run acceptance tests.

4

Migration & Cutover

Phased VM migration with live cutover during maintenance windows. Rollback procedures ready at every step. Zero data loss guaranteed.

5

Operate & Optimize

24/7 managed operations, monitoring, patching, capacity planning, and continuous optimization of your new open-source platform.

Kubernetes & Container Services

Kubernetes has become the de facto standard for container orchestration, but operating it reliably at scale requires deep expertise that goes well beyond initial cluster setup. Our Kubernetes practice encompasses the entire container lifecycle — from cluster architecture and workload migration through service mesh implementation, security hardening, and ongoing operations.

We have been running production Kubernetes clusters since the early days of the project and have accumulated extensive experience across managed services (EKS, GKE, AKS) as well as self-managed clusters on bare metal and private cloud. Our engineers hold Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) and Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) certifications, and contribute actively to the open-source ecosystem.

Kubernetes & Container Services at IG1

Cluster Architecture

We design Kubernetes cluster architectures that balance reliability, performance, and operational simplicity. Our designs encompass multi-tenant isolation strategies using namespaces, resource quotas, and network policies; multi-cluster topologies for geographic distribution and blast-radius containment; and federation patterns for organizations managing workloads across multiple cloud providers. Every architecture decision is documented with clear rationale and operational runbooks.

Multi-Tenant Multi-Cluster Federation EKS / GKE / AKS

Helm Charts & GitOps

We package applications using Helm charts with well-structured values files, comprehensive templating, and thorough testing using helm-unittest and chart-testing. Combined with GitOps controllers like ArgoCD and Flux, this creates a fully declarative deployment model where the desired state of every environment is tracked in Git. Drift detection, automatic reconciliation, and multi-environment promotion workflows ensure consistency and traceability across development, staging, and production.

ArgoCD Flux Helm Kustomize Chart Repositories

Service Mesh

As microservice architectures grow in complexity, a service mesh becomes essential for managing service-to-service communication, enforcing security policies, and gaining deep visibility into traffic patterns. We implement and operate service mesh solutions that provide mutual TLS encryption, fine-grained traffic management (canary routing, circuit breaking, retries), and distributed tracing — all without requiring application code changes. We help teams adopt service mesh incrementally, starting with observability and progressively enabling advanced traffic management features.

Istio Linkerd Traffic Management mTLS

Platform Engineering

We build internal developer platforms on Kubernetes that provide self-service capabilities for application teams while maintaining centralized governance. Using tools like Backstage, we create developer portals with service catalogs, documentation, and one-click environment provisioning. Self-service namespace creation, resource quota management, and automated onboarding workflows reduce operational burden on platform teams and accelerate time-to-production for new services.

Backstage Developer Portals Self-Service Namespaces Service Catalogs

Container Security

Container security requires a multi-layered approach spanning build-time, deploy-time, and runtime. We implement image scanning in CI pipelines to catch vulnerabilities before deployment, admission controllers that enforce security policies at deploy-time, and runtime protection that detects and responds to anomalous container behavior in production. Network policies segment traffic between workloads, while Pod Security Standards ensure containers run with minimal privileges. Our security posture is continuously validated through automated compliance checks.

Image Scanning Falco Network Policies Pod Security Trivy

Migration to Kubernetes

Migrating to Kubernetes is a journey, not a switch. We guide organizations through a structured migration process that begins with application assessment and dependency mapping, progresses through containerization and Dockerfile optimization, and culminates in production deployment with comprehensive monitoring and rollback plans. For legacy applications that cannot be fully refactored, we implement hybrid architectures that allow Kubernetes-native and traditional workloads to coexist during the transition period.

Containerization Lift-and-Shift Cloud-Native Refactoring Hybrid Architectures
Platform Engineering at IG1

Platform Engineering

Your developers are spending too much time fighting infrastructure instead of shipping product. We help you adopt a Platform Engineering approach: self-service portals, golden paths, IDPs — so every team moves faster, stays autonomous, and remains aligned with your security and compliance standards.

Self-Service Infrastructure

We set up portals that let your teams provision databases, message queues, or caches in a few clicks — with built-in governance, cost control, and compliance. No more tickets and waiting: your developers move forward, your security stays intact.

Golden Paths & Templates

We create your project templates, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure modules so every new service ships with security, observability, and compliance built in. Your best practices become the default path — not a document nobody reads.

Internal Developer Platforms

We design and deploy your custom IDP: a unified interface (API, CLI, dashboard) behind which your developers provision environments, deploy services, and manage configurations autonomously — without needing to master the underlying infrastructure layers.

Developer Portals (Backstage)

We deploy and customize your Backstage portal as the single entry point for your teams: service catalog, API docs, TechDocs, scaffolding, and CI/CD integration. Less context switching, more visibility across your technical estate.

Engagement Models

We offer flexible engagement models designed to match the way your organization works. Whether you need strategic advice, a fully managed operations team, or embedded engineers to augment your existing staff, we have a model that fits.

Consulting & Advisory

Short-term, high-impact engagements focused on architecture reviews, technology assessments, migration strategy, and operational maturity evaluations. Our senior architects and principal engineers bring decades of collective experience to help your leadership team make informed technology decisions. Engagements typically range from one-week assessments to multi-month strategic roadmaps.

  • Architecture reviews
  • Technology assessments
  • Migration roadmaps
  • Security & compliance audits
Most Popular

Managed Operations

Ongoing, 24/7 management of your cloud infrastructure and platform by a dedicated Iguana Solutions team. Includes proactive monitoring, incident response, change management, capacity planning, security patching, and regular optimization reviews. Backed by contractual SLAs with guaranteed response times and availability targets. Your dedicated team maintains deep institutional knowledge of your environment, ensuring continuity and rapid resolution.

  • 24/7 NOC coverage
  • Dedicated engineering team
  • Contractual SLAs (99.9%+)
  • Monthly operations reviews

Staff Augmentation

Embed experienced Iguana Solutions engineers directly within your team, working under your management and within your processes. Ideal for organizations that need to scale capacity quickly for specific projects, fill skill gaps in specialized areas like Kubernetes or Terraform, or accelerate delivery during critical periods. Our engineers integrate with your tooling, attend your standups, and contribute as full team members from day one.

  • Embedded in your team
  • Flexible scaling
  • Specialized skill sets
  • Knowledge transfer included

Technology Stack

We are technology-agnostic but deeply specialized. Our engineers maintain production-grade expertise across the leading platforms and tools in cloud infrastructure, container orchestration, automation, and security.

Cloud Providers

AWS
Google Cloud
Azure
OVH
OVHcloud

Containers & Orchestration

Kubernetes
Docker
Helm
Istio

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform
A
Ansible
Pulumi
CloudFormation

CI/CD

GitLab
GitHub Actions
Jenkins
ArgoCD

Monitoring & Observability

Prometheus
Grafana
Datadog
ELK
ELK Stack

Security

Vault
Falco
OPA
OPA
Trivy

Ready to Modernize Your Operations?

Whether you are starting a new cloud journey, optimizing an existing platform, or looking for a trusted partner to manage your infrastructure around the clock, our team is ready to help. Let us discuss how Iguana Solutions can accelerate your goals.