Test Labs & Greenfield Builds
Reproducible environments for proving a design before you commit to it.
Greenfield projects and proof-of-concept work stall when there is nowhere safe to try things. A properly built lab lets you test a design, a migration or a security control against something that behaves like production, without risking it.
Builds cover hypervisor and cloud-based labs, automated provisioning so environments can be destroyed and rebuilt at will, monitoring and observability from day one, and documentation that lets someone else run it. The same approach underpins the public reference environment in my GitHub monorepo.
What this covers
- Proxmox, VMware and cloud-based lab environments
- Fully automated build — destroy and rebuild on demand
- Golden images for Windows and Linux targets
- Monitoring and observability included, not bolted on later
- Greenfield platform design for new sites and new businesses
Delivered
Data centres built and commissioned for remote offices worldwide and new enterprise facilities in the UK, and four legacy data centres later decommissioned with zero data loss — the full lifecycle. A public reference implementation of the current toolchain (Packer, Ansible, CI validation) is in the GitHub monorepo linked from the evidence page.
Discuss a test labs & greenfield builds project
Email darren.pilkington@it-architect.uk or get in touch. Initial conversations are free and you will get a straight view on scope and feasibility.