Linux fleet reliability & modernization

No ticket queue. Senior and principal-led, and the practice built to keep your fleet dependable is the one that modernizes it, at your pace.

Why fleets slip

Whatever you run, whether RHEL on the important boxes, Ubuntu where a team moved fast, or one distribution across the whole estate, the signs are the same: a patch cadence that slips a quarter, a kernel update left too long because touching it means touching everything, monitoring that covers whatever was urgent the day it was set up, and a backup no one has restored. Run to a standard, and a fleet stops being a pile of exceptions and becomes a system you can reason about; in regulated sectors, running to a documented standard is expected.

We hold that standard across the RHEL family (RHEL, Rocky, Alma), Debian, and Ubuntu, on bare metal or as virtual machines, on-premises or in your cloud.

What we run

Day to day, managing the fleet means the operational work it actually needs, done with automation and to a standard:

• Patching and updates. Regular patch cycles and emergency fixes for the ones that can’t wait, rolled out in waves, tested on a subset before the rest.
• Monitoring and alerting. Metrics, logs, and alerting so the fleet is watched by design, on the stack you already run or one we stand up.
• Backup, DR, and recovery. Backups we test-restore on a defined schedule, with recovery objectives agreed up front rather than discovered during an incident.
• Security hardening. A hardening baseline, least-privilege access, and configuration that holds up over time.
• Configuration and automation. The fleet defined as code in Ansible, so every change is designed to be repeatable and land consistently across the fleet, with kernel tuning and out-of-band (IPMI/BMC) management where it counts.

The standard itself is concrete and set per engagement: patch and update cadence, monitoring coverage, recovery objectives (RTO and RPO), and a hardening baseline, written into the SOW.

How we engage

Fractional and principal-led. A principal engineer owns the standard and is accountable for the work, with senior specialists brought in as the work requires, and response is set per engagement to fit how your fleet runs, not a 24/7 desk you pay for and rarely use.

Two ways in. We run the fleet to the standard on a fractional retainer, or bring it up to that standard as a fixed-scope project and hand it back with the runbooks and automation to keep it there. Either way, the cleanest first step is a short fleet assessment, and pricing is set per engagement, against the scope.

We work inside your access controls and change process, with least-privilege credentials and an auditable trail, so your security team sets the boundaries and we operate within them. Onboarding starts with access and an inventory before anything touches production. And there is no contractual lock-in: leave a retainer on notice, or finish a project and keep the runbooks and automation to run it yourself.

Why this practice

You are not buying a ticket queue. The work is led by a principal engineer, Red Hat Certified (RHCE and RHCSA), with more than seventeen years across production infrastructure, from bare metal and the Linux estate through distributed storage and Kubernetes. That breadth is why fleet decisions account for the storage, networking, and platform underneath the OS, not just the box in front of you.

When you’re ready to modernize

When the fleet is solid, the same practice takes it forward, at your pace and not as a rip-and-replace: onto a Kubernetes platform, or off a traditional hypervisor with our VMware exit.