VM Templates and Golden Images Creation

Our VM templates accelerate deployments by incorporating pre-configured security baselines (CIS guidelines), automated vulnerability scanning, and role-based access controls directly into the golden images. This ensures consistent security compliance while reducing provisioning time from hours to minutes. The templates undergo automated security checks during CI/CD, guaranteeing that rapid deployment never compromises your security posture.

We implement a comprehensive lifecycle management approach that includes automated patching, version control through GitOps practices, and scheduled quarterly template reviews. Our system automatically rebuilds images when security updates are available, while maintaining all customizations and configurations. We also provide clear decommissioning policies and advance notifications for template updates to prevent disruption to your operations.

We establish right-sized templates (small, medium, large) based on performance benchmarking for specific workloads. Each template is optimized for CPU, memory, and disk I/O performance, with pre-configured Kubernetes-compatible drivers. We validate performance through stress testing before deployment, ensuring resources are efficiently allocated without over-provisioning.

We deliver hands-on training for your operations team coupled with comprehensive documentation covering template usage, updates, and troubleshooting. We maintain an active knowledge base of common issues and solutions, and through PodOps for OpenShift, we can maintain your templates long-term or until your team becomes fully proficient in managing them independently.

We begin with a collaborative process to define organization-wide standards for VM configurations, then create a catalog of pre-approved golden images for different workload types. Using OpenShift’s Advanced Cluster Management, we enforce these standards across all clusters and environments, while maintaining flexibility for specific team needs through role-based access controls and documented template guidelines.