Comprehensive cloud Management
Launchpad CoreOps provides comprehensive operational support for your Launchpad instance. Our team of expert cloud engineers proactively manage and maintain the critical foundations of your enterprise cloud environment, ensuring stability, security, and continuous optimisation.
RAPID & Secure Workspace Provisioning
Your development teams need a complete, secure cloud ecosystem for project delivery. With Launchpad CoreOps, you request a workspace, and we provision a fully contained delivery environment all ready for immediate use.
What's included in workspace
- Segmented delivery space for a system boundary
- Preconfigured environments to match your deployment strategy
- Secure network boundaries for each environment
- Configurable role based access controls to suit your requirements
FAQs
Find answers to your questions about our Launchpad CoreOps service.
Launchpad CoreOps is the foundational managed cloud support service that eliminates the complexity of enterprise cloud infrastructure management. By handling critical operational tasks such as workspace provisioning, network architecture, IP management, and Azure policy enforcement, CoreOps allows your teams to focus on innovation instead of infrastructure maintenance. The service provides continuous optimisation and updates to your Launchpad environment, ensuring your cloud platform remains secure, compliant, and aligned with your evolving business needs.
Launchpad CoreOps ensures the optimal management of your launchpad core cloud infrastructure including:
- Platform DNS Build & Configuration: We manage Azure DNS zone provisioning services to ensure high availability and scalability, integrating seamlessly with other Azure services for efficient domain name resolution.
- Resource Provider Lifecycle Management: Our team handles the activation and configuration of Azure resource providers, ensuring service availability and security at the subscription level.
- Azure Policy Lifecycle Management: We implement and maintain Azure Policy definitions to uphold consistent security, compliance, and operational standards.
- Custom Role Definitions Lifecycle Management: We create and maintain custom RBAC roles to enforce separation of duties and least-privilege access across the LFA Core Logical Architecture.
- LFA Core Structural Hierarchy: We manage the Azure management group structure, providing a framework for policy inheritance and access control.
- IP Address Management Tooling: Our centralised management of IP address allocation and CIDR range planning ensures efficient use of IP resources.
- Azure Virtual WAN + vHub: We deploy and configure Azure Virtual WAN and virtual hubs for optimised connectivity and management of the LFA Core Virtual Network configurations.
- Private DNS Management: We manage private DNS zones for Azure PaaS services, ensuring reliable DNS resolution and forwarding rules.
- Network Routing (T1-T2 Routing Intent): We implement and manage network routing policies to ensure secure and efficient traffic flow between Azure Virtual Hub and Spoke networks.
- IPAM Operations: Our team operates and maintains the centralised IP Address Management system, optimizing IP address space across the enterprise cloud environment.
- Platform Entitlements - RBAC Management: We manage platform-level role-based access control assignments affecting multiple business workloads.
- vHub Network Spoke Peering: We manage virtual network peering connections, including CIDR allocation and routing configuration.
- Bastion Host Services: We provide secure remote access for developers, ensuring compliance and security without exposing them to the public internet.
- Workspace Entitlements - RBAC Management: We manage workspace-specific role-based access control for developers and operators using Infrastructure as Code.
- Resource Type Access: We manage access to Azure resource types based on workload requirements, maintaining security and compliance standards.
- Workspace Stage Management: We implement and manage the required stages and dependent infrastructure for each LFA Core workspace.
The monthly report covers:
- Updates applied to the core of launchpad
- Added or removed Workspaces and Workloads
- Changes to any cloud policies
- Optimisation recommendations for continuous improvement.
Cloud Policy ensures that your environment adheres to consistent security, compliance, and operational standards. Launchpad CoreOps manages the lifecycle of these policies, from implementation to updates and retirement.
Whilst CoreOps includes some aspects of network management it focuses primarily in the management of the VWAN, hub, spokes, VNET peering, routing and IPAM where as NetOps focuses flow control for application workloads (Ingress/Egress/WAF configuration/inter-spoke firewall rules).
CoreOps networking features include:
- Routing: implements secure and efficient traffic flow policies between virtual hubs and spokes.
- Public and Private DNS: manages DNS zones for PaaS services to ensure reliable name resolution.
- IP address management: optimises IP allocation and CIDR planning across your environment.
- Virtual network peering: configures secure and efficient connectivity between hub and spoke networks.
Yes, Launchpad CoreOps helps ensure compliance with operational and security standards through robust access controls, detailed monitoring, and enforcement of Azure Policy definitions. This support service include service also provides essential compliance metrics in its monthly reports.
Micro-segmentation is a networking approach aligned with Zero Trust principles where systems are isolated more granularly within their own network segment. Launchpad workspaces ensure a tight network boundary for systems to operate securely and independently. This is critically important in modern systems to contain the blast radius in the event of a breach.
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