What does a Miracuves DevOps engagement include?
Every Miracuves DevOps engagement includes Terraform IaC, Docker builds, CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes Helm charts where the workload runs on Kubernetes, Prometheus + Grafana monitoring, alerting rules, runbooks, and 60 days of post-deploy support. All infrastructure code is 100% client-owned on handoff, and the cloud accounts it runs in are registered and billed in your company's name from day one. Managed services such as RDS or Cloud SQL remain the provider's services, running under your account.
How much does DevOps engineering cost at Miracuves?
It depends on the offer. A standard CI/CD pipeline starts from $3,699 and takes 7-14 days at a fixed scope. Custom DevOps infrastructure - Kubernetes, multi-cloud or compliance controls - typically costs $8,000-$25,000 over 2-8 weeks depending on scope; larger scopes are quoted in writing before work starts. An SRE retainer for monitoring, incident response and scaling starts from $2,299/month. Your cloud provider bill is paid by you directly and is separate from our fee. Every quote is written before payment, with no surprise invoices after kickoff.
How long does a DevOps project take to deliver?
A standard CI/CD pipeline ships in 7-14 days. Custom infrastructure with Kubernetes, multi-cloud, or complex compliance takes 2-8 weeks; larger scopes are quoted in writing before work starts. All timelines stated in writing before payment. Your team or any other development company can continue the work immediately after handoff.
Which CI/CD tool does Miracuves recommend?
For most projects, Miracuves recommends GitHub Actions for CI/CD with Argo CD for GitOps deployment to Kubernetes. GitHub Actions keeps pipelines next to the code, has a large marketplace of reusable actions, and deploys to AWS, Azure or Google Cloud with short-lived OIDC credentials instead of stored keys. If your code already lives in GitLab, GitLab CI is the natural choice, and for enterprise environments with on-premises requirements, Jenkins remains a strong option. Miracuves recommends the tool that fits your team's workflow, not the tool that is most popular.
Does Miracuves handle cloud migration projects?
Yes. Miracuves handles full cloud migration including lift-and-shift into containers and Kubernetes, database migration with minimal downtime, network re-architecture, security group configuration, and DNS cutover. Every migration has a documented rollback path in Terraform, rehearsed before the cutover window. Miracuves recommends Kubernetes when your team is already container-native or the workload needs elastic scaling; otherwise a managed container service is usually simpler to run.
What is infrastructure-as-code and why does it matter?
Infrastructure-as-code means your entire cloud infrastructure - VPCs, subnets, security groups, Kubernetes clusters, databases, load balancers - is defined in version-controlled Terraform files instead of being configured manually through cloud consoles. This eliminates configuration drift, lets you rebuild an environment with one command, and provides a complete audit trail of every infrastructure change.
What happens when something breaks in production?
Alerts from Prometheus and Grafana go to your on-call channel (Slack, PagerDuty or similar), each linked to a runbook step. During the 60-day post-deploy support window, Miracuves engineers respond to incidents, roll back a bad release through the pipeline and write a short post-incident note with the fix. After that, the SRE retainer from $2,299/month keeps the same team on monitoring and incident response; without a retainer, your team runs on-call with the runbooks we hand over.
Who pays the cloud bill, and how do you keep it down?
You pay your cloud provider directly: the AWS, Azure or Google Cloud accounts are in your company's name, and that bill is separate from our fee. Our own prices are published - CI/CD pipelines from $3,699 with fixed scope, custom infrastructure scoped and quoted before work begins with milestone billing, and SRE retainers from $2,299/month. To keep the cloud bill down we tag every resource by environment, set budget alerts at launch, shut idle non-production environments down out of hours, and right-size nodes once real traffic data exists.
When should a company NOT invest in custom DevOps?
If your team is under 5 engineers deploying to a single PaaS like Vercel or Heroku, you likely do not need Kubernetes or Terraform yet. If your cloud spend is under $500/month, managed services are almost always more cost-effective. If your application is a simple static site, DevOps investment is premature. Miracuves will tell you this honestly before you pay for infrastructure you do not need.
Do you provide DevOps engineering services in the USA?
Yes, remotely. Miracuves is based in Mumbai, India, and delivers DevOps work to US companies without a local office. Your pipelines and infrastructure code live in your own GitHub or GitLab organization, your workloads run in the US cloud regions you choose, and the accounts are billed to your company. We overlap US working hours for cutovers, migration windows and incident reviews. First response is under 2 hours, Monday to Saturday, 10:00-19:00 IST.
Do you offer Kubernetes DevOps services?
Yes. We set up and run Kubernetes on EKS, AKS or GKE: a Helm chart for each service, Argo CD for GitOps deploys, autoscaling on real traffic metrics, network policies, and Prometheus and Grafana monitoring, with the cluster itself defined in Terraform. It is custom work, typically 2-8 weeks at $8,000-$25,000 depending on scope. If your application is not containerized yet, Docker and Kubernetes development covers that step first.
Can you take over an existing pipeline or Terraform codebase?
Yes. We start with a written audit of your pipelines, Terraform state, cluster configuration and secrets handling, then list what to keep, fix and replace, with a price, before changing anything. Common fixes: importing console-built resources into Terraform, moving state to a locked remote backend, replacing long-lived cloud keys in CI with OIDC, and adding a staging environment. Changes land in small reviewed pull requests, so production keeps running throughout.