DevOps Services in Pakistan
Cloud migration, server setup, CI/CD, monitoring and tested backups for Pakistani businesses. We cut dollar-billed cloud and SaaS costs, move your apps onto servers you control, and hand over runbooks your own team can follow.
- No obligation, no sales script
- You own the code
- Fixed scope after discovery
100+
Projects delivered
~$300k
Monthly stock run through one ERP
30,000+
Legacy records migrated
24/7
Support and maintenance
Trusted by forward thinking brands worldwide. Every build ships with documentation, training and full source code ownership.
Common server and cloud problems we fix
Dollar bills
Cloud and SaaS bills in dollars that keep climbing
Every slide in the rupee raises the bill, per seat pricing grows with headcount, and nobody is sure which services on the AWS invoice are still needed.
Paying for it
Even paying the bill is a problem
Many Pakistani teams pay AWS and SaaS tools on a personal card, but SBP caps individuals at USD 30,000 a year in international card spend and says personal cards are not for business payments.
Fragile servers
One server, one person, no tested backup
Deploys happen by hand over FTP or SSH, the person who set it up has left, and the last backup was never restored to check it works.
Where your servers sit matters more each year. Under the Cloud First Policy, the Ministry of IT and Telecom began accrediting cloud providers in May 2026, with sensitive government data meant to stay on servers in Pakistan. If you sell to government or hold sensitive customer data, you should know exactly where it lives and be able to move it.
DevOps services that put you back in control of your servers
Lumen AI provides DevOps services in Pakistan for businesses that have outgrown a single fragile server or an expensive cloud bill. We set up servers, move your applications onto them, automate deployments, add monitoring, and prove the backups work by restoring them.
Where it makes sense, we move you off per seat SaaS and oversized cloud accounts onto servers you control, on Hetzner, DigitalOcean, AWS or a data centre in Pakistan. You pay a flat server bill instead of a per user one, and every service runs from a repository you own.
The trade is real: someone has to run it. So we hand it over built to survive that, with deploys that run themselves, alerts that reach a person, and runbooks written for whoever joins your team next year. The self-hosted tools we deploy most often include n8n for workflow automation and ERP systems that hold your stock and accounts.
Free
Server and cloud bill review to start
Flat cost
A server bill instead of per seat fees
Your keys
Root access, your domain, your data
A typical setup vs a setup built by us
A slow server costs rankings too, so page speed is part of our SEO services. New applications from our custom web app development team ship ready for this pipeline.
Typical setup
With Lumen AI
Cloud and SaaS billed in dollars per user
A flat server bill that does not grow with headcount
Deploys by FTP or SSH from someone's laptop
Push to deploy, with tests and one-command rollback
Backups that were never restored
Nightly off-site backups, with restores tested on a schedule
Customers tell you the site is down
Uptime alerts reach a person before customers notice
Only one person knows how the server works
Infrastructure as code, with written runbooks
Data in a vendor account you cannot export
Your data on servers you hold the keys to
Our DevOps services
Docker and containers
- Every service in its own container
- Multi stage builds that stay small
- Docker Compose for single host setups
- Kubernetes only where the scale earns it
- Reproducible builds from a tagged image
- The same image in staging and production
CI/CD pipelines
- Push to deploy from your own repository
- Tests and linting block a bad merge
- Build once and promote the same artifact
- Zero downtime rolling deploys
- One command rollback to the previous tag
- Secrets injected at deploy and never committed
Server and cloud setup
- Hetzner DigitalOcean AWS or your own hardware
- Provisioned from code with Ansible or Terraform
- Reverse proxy with automatic TLS
- Private networking between services
- A staging environment that matches production
- Rebuildable from scratch in under an hour
Security
- SSH keys only and no password login
- Firewall closed by default
- Automatic security patching
- Rate limiting and fail2ban at the edge
- Secrets in a vault rather than an env file
- Least privilege access per service
Monitoring
- Prometheus and Grafana dashboards
- Uptime checks from outside your network
- Log aggregation you can actually search
- Alerts that reach a person on call
- Resource trends so you scale before you fall over
- Errors tied back to the deploy that caused them
Backups and disaster recovery
- Automated nightly database dumps
- Off site copies on separate infrastructure
- Point in time recovery where the database supports it
- Restores tested on a schedule and not assumed
- A written recovery runbook with real timings
- Retention rules that match your obligations
Scaling
- Vertical first because it is usually cheaper
- Horizontal scaling behind a load balancer
- Read replicas and connection pooling
- Caching in front of the slow paths
- Queue workers scaled apart from the app
- Capacity planned from real traffic and not guesses
How deployments work: from git push to live
The same pipeline runs whether it is a typo fix or a database migration. That is the point of it: deploys stop being events that need a Friday afternoon.
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Git
your repository
push
A push to main is the only trigger. Nobody deploys from a laptop and nobody deploys by hand.
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CI/CD
GitHub Actions / Gitea
1m 40s
Tests, linting and a dependency scan run before anything gets built.
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Docker
image registry
2m 05s
One image is built, tagged and pushed. That exact image is what reaches production.
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Server
your VPS
18s
Rolling restart behind the proxy. The old container keeps serving until the new one is healthy.
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Database
migrations
4s
Migrations run inside a transaction, with the pre deploy dump already taken and verified.
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Monitoring
Prometheus + Grafana
watching
Error rate and latency watched against the previous release rather than against nothing.
health check fails → rollback to the previous tag, automatically
What runs on your server
One machine to start with, because most businesses genuinely do not need more than that. Every layer can move onto its own host later without rewriting anything.
Edge
Everything arrives here first. Nothing else is exposed to the internet.
- Caddy or Nginx
- Automatic TLS
- Rate limiting
- DDoS filtering
Application
Your services, each in its own container, each restartable on its own.
- Web app
- API
- Background workers
- Scheduled jobs
Data
The part that actually matters, on disks you control.
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- Object storage
- Search index
Operations
Watching it, and being able to put it back.
- Metrics
- Logs
- Nightly backups
- Off site copies
Who our DevOps services are for
Software houses and SaaS startups
Teams shipping every week that need CI/CD, staging and monitoring without hiring a full-time DevOps engineer.
Businesses on a growing AWS bill
Companies paying in dollars for servers sized years ago, where right-sizing or a flat-price host cuts the invoice.
Companies paying per seat for SaaS
Teams of fifty or more paying per user for tools that have a self-hosted equivalent they could own.
Online stores
WooCommerce and custom stores that slow down or fall over on sale days like 11.11 and Black Friday.
Firms with sensitive data
Clinics, schools, finance companies and government suppliers that need to know exactly where their data sits.
Agencies hosting client sites
Dozens of WordPress sites and web apps on one tangled server, moved into containers with backups per client.
What you get at handover
How a server or cloud migration works
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Audit
We look at what you run now, what it costs a year, and what would genuinely break if a vendor disappeared next month.
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Provision
Servers built from code rather than from memory, so the machine can be rebuilt instead of nursed.
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Containerise
Each service packaged so it runs identically on a laptop, in staging and in production.
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Migrate
Data moved with a rehearsal first, and a rollback plan we have actually executed rather than written down.
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Cut over
The switch happens in a window you choose, with the old system still standing by until you are happy.
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Hand over
Runbooks, credentials, dashboards and a walkthrough, so your team is not dependent on us either.
The last step is the whole point of the exercise: you should be able to fire us and keep running.
How much do DevOps services cost in Pakistan?
DevOps work is quoted at a fixed price after the free server and cloud bill review, and you pay your hosting provider directly. Ongoing support, if you want it, is a flat monthly retainer rather than an hourly meter.
The review answers the real question first: what you spend on cloud and SaaS today, what the same setup would cost on servers you control, and how long the move takes to pay for itself. If it would not pay off, we tell you.
- Applications
- How many apps, databases and background jobs need to move.
- Current setup
- A tidy cloud account, or a server nobody has documented.
- Data size
- How much data has to migrate, and how little downtime you can accept.
- Uptime needs
- One server with fast recovery, or several servers with failover.
- Compliance
- Where data must sit, who may access it, and how long logs are kept.
- Support
- A clean handover to your team, or a monthly support retainer.
How it works
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1
Talk
A 30 minute call. You describe the process, we tell you if it is worth doing.
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2
Scope
Fixed price, fixed timeline, written down before anyone commits.
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3
Build
Working software every week, not a status report at the end.
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4
Hand over
Migration, training, documentation and the keys.
DevOps services across Pakistan
We set up and run servers for businesses across Pakistan, remotely by default, with an office in Rahim Yar Khan and a Gulf office in Doha. Migrations run in a window you choose, usually at night or over a weekend, with the old system on standby until you are happy. Start with a free server and cloud bill review.
DevOps services in Pakistan: FAQs
What do your DevOps services include?
Server setup, cloud migration, Docker containers, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, security hardening, and backups we prove by restoring them. Everything is handed over with runbooks and credentials, with optional monthly support.
What is in the free server and cloud bill review?
We look at what you run today, what it costs a year, what would break if a vendor disappeared, and what moving would cost and save. You get the findings in writing, whether or not you hire us.
Can you reduce our AWS bill?
Usually. Many AWS accounts carry oversized servers, forgotten resources and data transfer charges nobody planned for. We right-size first, and where a flat-price host suits your workload better, we migrate.
Is self hosting actually cheaper?
Usually, once you are past a handful of users. Per seat pricing grows with headcount while a server bill grows with traffic. The exception is a small team on one or two cheap tools, where the migration costs more than it saves. We work out your number first.
Can we host our servers in Pakistan?
Yes. We can deploy in a Pakistani data centre where data needs to stay in the country, or on Hetzner, DigitalOcean or AWS where price and performance matter more. The setup is the same either way, so you can move later.
Who maintains it after handover?
Whoever you want. Most clients take it in house with a retainer for the awkward jobs, and some hand it back to us entirely. Either way you get the runbooks, the credentials and infrastructure defined as code.
What happens if the server dies?
You restore. Nightly dumps go off site to separate infrastructure, the machine itself is defined in code, and the recovery runbook has real timings because we have run the restore. For most setups a full rebuild takes under an hour.
Do we need a full time DevOps person?
No. That is the reason for the pipeline, the dashboards and the runbooks. A developer on your team can deploy, read the graphs and restore a backup without becoming an infrastructure specialist.
How long does a migration take?
A single application with its database usually moves in a matter of weeks, including a rehearsal run. Larger setups move one service at a time, with the old system on standby until each one is signed off. The timeline is fixed in writing after the review.
