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Repeatable environments, automated deployments and governance built into delivery, not bolted on afterwards. Valto automates the way organisations build, deploy and govern their Azure environments and applications: infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, consistent environments and security embedded in the delivery process. We work in both Azure DevOps and GitHub, and we will tell you which one your organisation should be on.

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Overview

Move faster without increasing risk

Many organisations struggle with disconnected development processes, manual deployments and limited visibility across projects. As environments become more complex, managing releases, infrastructure and development workflows can quickly become a challenge. The usual position is an environment nobody can rebuild. It was configured by hand over several years, the person who did it has moved on, test and production have drifted apart, and every release carries a risk nobody can quantify. The problem is not that deployment is slow. It is that deployment is uncertain. Valto's specialists make it repeatable. We define the environments as code so they can be rebuilt identically, automate the deployment path so releases stop depending on who is available, and embed security and approval gates in the pipeline rather than in somebody's checklist. We work in Azure DevOps and GitHub, and part of the assessment is deciding which platform you should be standardising on.

What can Valto deliver?

Our specialists assess how you currently build, test, deploy and govern change, then recommend the smallest set of changes that removes the most risk.

DevOps maturity assessment

Establish where you are: how environments are built, how releases happen, who can deploy, what is automated and what depends on a person. You get a prioritised roadmap with the highest-risk gaps named, whether or not you go further with us.

Azure DevOps or GitHub: the decision

Azure DevOps is supported and stable, and moving off it is rarely urgent. GitHub is where Microsoft's development platform investment now goes. Which you should be on depends on where you are today, what you are building, and how much change your teams can absorb. We work in both, so we have no reason to push either.

Infrastructure as code

Define your Azure environments in Bicep or Terraform so they can be rebuilt identically, reviewed like code, and changed without configuration drift. This is the work that turns an environment nobody can reproduce into one anybody can.

CI/CD pipelines

Build and harden the path from commit to production, with automated testing, approval gates and rollback. For in-house development teams, this is usually the difference between releasing monthly with anxiety and releasing weekly without.

Azure platform automation

Automate provisioning, configuration, policy and governance across your Azure estate, so new environments arrive correctly configured rather than being corrected afterwards.

Security and governance in delivery

Embed secrets management, dependency and code scanning, policy enforcement and audit into the pipeline, so compliance evidence is produced by the process rather than assembled for an auditor.

Our Azure DevOps services

Create the right delivery model

We help organisations assess current processes, identify bottlenecks and define a roadmap for modern software delivery practices. That includes the platform decision. Azure DevOps, GitHub or a period of running both are all legitimate answers, and which one fits depends on your teams rather than on what is newest.

Expertise

Azure infrastructure and delivery specialists

Repeatability

Environments you can rebuild from code

Governance

Compliance produced by the process

COMMON DELIVERY CHALLENGES WE SOLVE

Expertise for the issues that make change risky

Many organisations are trying to deliver technology faster, but face challenges caused by manual processes, disconnected tooling and limited automation. Common challenges include:

Slow release cycles, where deploying is an event rather than a routine
Manual deployments that depend on one person being available
Environments that have drifted apart, so testing no longer predicts production
No visibility across development projects, and no reliable view of what changed when
Infrastructure configured by hand over years, which nobody can now rebuild
Security and compliance evidence assembled by hand ahead of every audit

What can you do with DevOps?

Where organisations apply this work, and what changes as a result.

Consistent environments

Development, test and production built from the same definitions, so testing predicts production instead of approximating it.

Repeatable Azure provisioning

New environments, subscriptions and workloads arrive correctly configured and governed, rather than being corrected afterwards.

Cloud and application modernisation

Support migration and modernisation programmes with the automation and environment control they need to be safe.

Audit and compliance evidence

Change history, approvals, scanning results and access records produced by the delivery process rather than gathered afterwards.

Disaster recovery you can evidence

Environments defined as code can be rebuilt on demand, which turns a recovery plan into something testable.

Should you be on Azure DevOps or GitHub?

Both do the same core job: source control, pipelines, work tracking, artefacts. The difference is direction.

Azure DevOps is mature, stable and heavily used, with strong work item tracking and pipeline capability. If it is working for you, moving is rarely urgent, and we support organisations who stay.
GitHub is where Microsoft's development platform investment now goes, and where new capability arrives first. For organisations starting fresh, or planning several years ahead, it is generally the platform to standardise on.
Running both is common and often sensible during a transition, with source control moving first and pipelines following.

Common Azure DevOps engagements

A structured review of how you build, test, deploy and govern change today, covering environments, automation, access, security and platform choice. Output is a prioritised roadmap with the highest-risk gaps named and sized. Typically two to three weeks.

Design and build of the path from commit to production, including automated testing, environment promotion, approval gates, secrets handling and rollback, in Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.

Definition of your Azure environments in Bicep or Terraform, with module structure, state management, review process and the pipeline to deploy them.

Automated provisioning, configuration, policy and governance across the Azure estate, so new subscriptions and workloads land correctly configured.

The automation, environment control and deployment safety that a migration or re-platforming programme depends on.

Assessment, sequencing and execution of a move between platforms, covering repositories, history, pipelines, work items and permissions, phased so delivery continues throughout.

Review of existing pipelines and environments you already have, whoever built them, with duplication removed, security tightened and a prioritised route to maintainability.

We're one of the UK's few Microsoft partners to hold all Microsoft Solution Partner designation badges, across all Solution Partner designation pathways. For our clients, that means access to specialists who understand cloud platforms, software delivery and operational excellence, and who work across both Azure DevOps and GitHub rather than defaulting to one. Whether you're introducing DevOps practices for the first time or improving an existing delivery model, we help organisations create reliable, scalable and modern ways of delivering technology.

Why organisations choose Valto

Connected, across Microsoft

The pipeline is where security and governance actually happen

Policy in a document gets audited. Policy in a pipeline gets enforced. Access control, secrets handling, dependency scanning and approval gates either sit in the delivery process or they sit in somebody's good intentions. Valto brings together expertise across Azure infrastructure, Entra ID, security, GitHub, Microsoft Fabric, Power Platform and Dynamics 365. That lets our specialists connect delivery automation to the identity and governance model around it, extend the same discipline to Power Platform and data workloads where it is often absent entirely, and recognise when the answer is a process change rather than another tool. The result is change that is faster because it is safer, rather than faster despite not being.

How we deliver DevOps projects

Our five-step process is clear and transparent from start to finish. From establishing how change actually happens today, through to automated, governed delivery your teams own and can maintain.

1
Discovery
Current processes & challenges
We assess existing delivery processes, tooling and operational requirements, including how environments are built, who can deploy and what currently depends on a person rather than a process.
2
Strategy
The right DevOps approach
Together, we define processes, platforms and automation opportunities that align with your goals, including whether Azure DevOps or GitHub is the right platform to standardise on.
3
Build
Automated delivery pipelines
Our specialists implement DevOps tooling, infrastructure automation and deployment processes, starting with one workload end to end rather than everything partially.
4
Adoption
Empower your teams
We help teams adopt new ways of working through knowledge transfer, governance and enablement, with the explicit aim that your people can maintain it without us.
5
Optimisation
Keep ahead
As requirements evolve, we help continuously improve delivery performance, automation and operational efficiency.

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Questions, answered plainly

Practical answers on choosing between Azure DevOps and GitHub, what infrastructure as code changes in practice, what a maturity assessment involves, and whether your team can maintain it afterwards.

Both cover source control, pipelines and work tracking. The practical difference is direction: Azure DevOps is mature and stable, while Microsoft's development platform investment now goes into GitHub, so new capability arrives there first. If Azure DevOps is working for you, moving is rarely urgent. If you are starting fresh or planning several years out, GitHub is generally the one to standardise on. Running both during a transition is normal. We work in both, so we have no reason to push either.

Yes. We assess what you have, agree what moves and in what order, and migrate repositories with history, pipelines, work items and permissions in phases so delivery continues throughout. Source control usually moves first and pipelines follow, because rewriting every pipeline at once is where these projects stall.

Yes, and a lot of organisations run exactly that way, with code in GitHub and work tracking or pipelines in Azure DevOps. It is a legitimate long-term position as well as a transitional one, and it is often the lowest-disruption route if only part of your setup needs to change.

We review how environments are built, how releases happen, who can deploy, what is automated, how secrets and access are handled, and which platform you are on. You get a prioritised roadmap with the highest-risk gaps named and sized. It typically takes two to three weeks, and it is useful whether or not you do the work with us.

That is the intended outcome and it shapes how we build. We use standard tooling rather than anything bespoke, document as we go, and run knowledge transfer with the people who will own it. Some clients then keep us on for ongoing review; others do not need to. Automation that only the supplier understands has replaced one dependency with another.

No. A good deal of the value is on the infrastructure side, where repeatable environments, automated provisioning and governance in the deployment path help organisations with no in-house developers at all. If you do have a development team, pipelines and release automation are usually where the biggest gains sit.

By moving controls into the process. Secrets management, dependency and code scanning, approval gates, policy enforcement and access control all sit in the pipeline, which means your compliance evidence is generated as a by-product of delivery rather than assembled by hand before an audit. For regulated clients this is often the reason the work gets funded.

Mostly for the decisions rather than the tooling. Which platform to standardise on, what to automate first, how much governance is enough, and how to sequence change without stalling delivery are the things that determine whether this works. The tooling is well documented and freely available. Knowing which of the available approaches suits an organisation of your size, and which ones are expensive to reverse, is what experience buys.

DevOps is the practice of bringing development and operations together so that building, testing, deploying and running software is one governed process rather than a series of handovers. CI/CD is the automated part of it: continuous integration means code is built and tested automatically as it is written, and continuous delivery means it is deployed through consistent, repeatable steps rather than by hand.

Azure DevOps is Microsoft's suite for source control, work tracking, build and release pipelines, testing and package management. It is mature, widely used and fully supported, and it can be used for any application on any platform, not only Azure. Microsoft's newer development platform investment goes into GitHub, which is why the platform choice is worth making deliberately.

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